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Wednesday, April 30, 1975
University Dally Kansan
Kansan stays in Vietnam
NEWTON—"When you commit your life to the Lord, you trust him. The greater the problem, the greater the Lord."
That was Mrs. Rudolf Klassen's reaction Tuesday to the decision of her son, Janet, to remain in South Vietnam to continue his mission work with her.
She was reluctant to talk about the decision but said it came as no surprise because he indicated in a letter last week that he intended to
Klassen, who is single, is a 1969 graduate of Bethel College at North Newton and a 1972 graduate of the Mennonite Biblical Seminary at Gosen, Ind. Mrs. Klassen said her son had been in Vietnam since October 1972.
Bingo license injunction
WICHTHA - A Sedgwick County District Court judge granted Tuesday an injunction against issuance of bingo licenses to private clubs in
The injunction, sought by Sedgwick County Dist. Atty. Keith Sanborn, was granted by Judge Howard Kline at a hearse in Wichita.
Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider had said in a legal opinion that the clubs could obtain licenses to play bingo unto new state law, which took effect on June 30, 2015.
Sanborn said he didn't know if the attorney general's office would pursue the issue further in the courts.
Nixon ordered wiretaps
NEW YORK-Richard M. Nixon said he ordered wiretaps on Morton H.
Halperin's home and others, "including employees of the National
Security Council," in an effort to discover the source or sources of leaks
of highly classified information."
aide to Henry Kissinger, secretary of state.
Halperin is a former aide to Henry Kusner; security or state. Nikon's remarks were included in a seven-page statement sent to Halperin's attorneys in connection with a suit filed against Nikon by Halperin. Halperin is seeking damages that could run in excess of $60 million.
Nixon wrote that he had acted under his "bread discretion" as president and was "absolutely immune from civil liability therefore."
Vietnamese evacuate
BANGKOK, Thailand—By wit, guile or access to military aircraft, thousands of South Vietnamese soldiers and their families fed Saigon by air Tuesday to Thailand, Hong Kong or the choppy waters of the South China Sea.
By dusk Tuesday, 130 South Vietnamese planes, including F5 fighter-bombers, transports and attack planes, had arrived at the American-run Utapo air base in Thailand, carrying about 2,000 Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
The Thai Foreign Ministry said all South Vietnamese planes in Thailand would be returned to the next government in South Vietnam, and South Vietnamese refugees would be allowed to remain in Thailand only 30 days.
Bennett signs bills; confrontation possible
TOPEKA (AP)—Gov. Robert F. Bennett signed into law Tuesday 18 more bills passed by the 1975 Kansas Legislature, including two that could bring another legal confrontation with Atty. Gen. Curt Schneider.
The two bills give the governor and legislature power to order the attorney general to appeal constitutional questions to the Kansas Supreme Court and give standing in court to the legislature's own counsel.
Also among the measures Bennett signed were ones to;
—Make it optional rather than mandar-
 make it have a color photography on a Kana-
gami.
—Provide intangibles tax relief for the elderly.
-Allow the University of Kansas to accept a $4 million gift for an art museum.
Schneider he thought the constitutional validity of the two laws aimed at him was questionable, especially the federal law that requires a protective counsel standing in court by statute.
However, Schneider said, he hadn't attempted to block passage of the bills.
Bennett said the bill directing the attorney general to take issues involving interpretation of the state Constitution to the Kansas Supreme Court for final resolution was merely an extension of a present law and should be constitutional.
Editor's Note—The writer of this dispatch, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for dispatches from Vietnam, was there when American soldiers first came in force to Indochina. He was there Tuesday when the Americans left, one of three Associated Press correspondents who elected to remain in Saigon after the evacuation.
By PETER ARNETT
AP Special Correspondent
By PETER ARNETT
Reporter reviews decade of war
SAIGON—Ten years ago I watched the first U.S. Marines arrive to help South Vietnam. They were greeted on the beaches by pretty Vietnamese girls in white skinned robes who draped flower leares around their necks.
A decade has passed.
And on Tuesday I watched U.S. Marines shepherding the last Americans out of South Vietnam. They were the same, cleancut-looking young men of a decade ago.
But the Vietnamese were different.
Those who didn't have a place on the last helicopters out of Saigon—and there were thousands of them left behind—booed and shouted in U.S. Marine bases and the landing zones.
Some Vietnamese threw themselves over walls and wire forces, only to be thrown
Bloodshed was avoided seemingly only by good luck and bad aim on the part of some angry Vietnamese soldiers who shot at a few buses and denaring helicopters.
But the whole, frantic dash from Saigon by the Americans and the bitter resentment of those who fought against it couldn't go seemed a sad but accurate reflection of what relations between Americans and Vietnamese had come to in the 19 years since those flowers were gladly preserved.
Americans and the South Vietnam once got along pretty well. That was in the days when the U.S. Marines first arrived in Vietnam with a determination to see the war through.
The South Vietnamese army, dispersed then, watched with wonder as first the Martines and then the paratroopers and the American infantry came to steaming hot Vietnam to trudge the coastal plains and bodies they in a punishing, unfamiliar environment.
Vietnamese officers began aping the American way. The Americans seemed always to have better pressed uniforms and more detailed maps and diagrams.
Nearly 20,000 Vietnamese officers flew to the United States for education or advanced training and they returned with American slang expressions and an American taste for firepower and massive military supplies.
The South Vietnamese instead learned the American way to use firepower, blasting at the other side with war planes and artillery, only so long as there were bumps and shells.
But something went wrong along the way. To win a war like Vietnam, the subject to study was the American war but the British war. It wasn't launching the war in their own country.
And Saigon also tasted the luxury of the American way, with massive quantities of bombs and equipment. And this also was to end.
One factor that surely sustained the South Vietnamese for long years after the American ground troops left was hope that the United States would continue to help one way or the other, or to at least save everyone at the last minute.
That hope died for many on Tuesday.
The days preceding the evacuation were eyeopeners for Americans who had
any faith left in the ability of the South Vietnamese high command.
This reporter lunched with a three-star general with critical responsibilities for the defense of Saigon, and he matter of factly explained his own plan of retreat.
He would simply have his helicopter pilot follow the U.S. Marine helicopters ferrying evacuates to 7th Fleet carriers offshore, and set down with them. But what about the defense of the city for which he would be responsible after the Americans left?
"Don't you see," he said, "this will be my last chance to get to the United States. I know I can make money here by writing articles on the topic." On Tuesday, the general followed the
A Vietnamese infantry colonel complained bitterly that he had been left behind despite a promise "from a friend high in the American CIA."
This sort of bitterness must be felt by thousands of other Vietnamese officers and civilians who have lived through the years and began believing in "the American way" of doing things.
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On Tuesday, the general followed the Marines to the carriers.
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The final day of the American involvement in Vietnam was summed up perhaps by the experience of one departing
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