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Tuesday, April 1, 1975
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Connally trial starts today
WASHINGTON - John B. Connally, once praised by former Pres. Richard M. Nixon as "a tower of strength for the President," goes on trial Tuesday on charges that he accepted two $5,000 bribes while he was Secretary of the Treasury for Nixon.
He is the fourth Nixon Cabinet member to be accused of criminal misconduct and only the second Cabinet officer in American history to face a bribery charge. The first was Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Foll, who was convicted in the Teapot Dome scandal in 1929.
The Special Watergate Prosecutor's office accuses Connally of accepting the $10,000 bribe from the nation's largest dairy cooperative to facilitate the purchase of grain.
U.S. aid flows to Vietnam
**MARTON** - An American Air Force C-5A transport plane, hauling 14 towels and two of ammunition, landed here early Tuesday to begin an investigation into the crash.
The plane crew and U.S. officers at Tan Son Nuh Airport said they didn't know when other planes would arrive in the airlift ordered by
The U.S. Embassy arranged for 40 Vietnamese, American and foreign newsmen to observe the unloading in a section of the airport usually closed to reporters. Vietnamese officers said the equipment would be with army units later Tuesday.
Ten Vietnamese army tracks up to the aircraft's ramp when the plane landed after a 17½-hour runoff flight from Travis Air Force Base, Hanoi.
Lebanese repulse Israelis
About 20 Israeli soldiers crossed the border of southern Lebanon twice on Monday in an attempt to plant mines, but artillery fire drove them from their position.
No casualties were reported and there was no immediate comment from the Israeli command.
The ministry said the Israelis came under intense fire about 60 yards from the frontier near the village of Bustan. It said Israeli enemy ground gunners later struck at Lebanese forward positions but scored no hits and inflicted no casualties.
Meanwhile, the influential Israeli newspaper Haaretz suggested that Israel withdraw its forces along the Suec Canal by about three miles, as a gesture to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat who proposed an opening of the Suec Canal down the sea. The paper said Sadat's more would reduce the chance of war.
SAGION (Ap)—Dal Nang fell to the Com-
mune in casualty not of battle but
of panic and chaos.
Fear, not soldiers, fells Da Nang
Accounts of the collapse of South Vietnam's second largest city and one-time major U.S. base have shocked and arrested the capital, and its three million people.
The question asked today in Saigon was "Can it happen here?"
For Da Nang shuddered and died in three days of looting, burning and murder inflicted not by averging Communist troops but by the citizens of Da Nang itself.
The Communist troops sat outside and watched.
And when they moved in Saturday afternoon and Sunday, there was no resistance from a population exhausted from mayhem and fear.
That is the picture of the last days of Da Nang as painted by Americans, England and Vietnam who were among the first to visit the city. Another 1,400,000 were left behind.
The seeds of Da Nang's capitalization lay in the military debacle that followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's unexpected decision to abandon to the Communist side first the central highlands, and then the old imperial capital of Hue.
Da Nang was inundated by borders of refugees and desperate soldiers fleeing not only from Hue but also from the two other provinces. The Mongolian, Qing Naqi, which collapsed overnight,
A chain reaction of fear infected the fleeing soldiers and civilians. They spread it like the plague through the towns and cities they fled to.
A young Englishman in Quang Ngui, Paul Quinn Judge, a member of the Quaker American Friends Service Committee, recalled visiting a village on Route 1 on his way there. He said a youth pointed at the distant town and said "the Communists are coming."
As Judge drove off in his arm, the five South Vietnamese M113 armed personnel
Crime rise may be due to economy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday that serious crime rose 17 per cent in the United States last year and some criminologists said they believed worsening economic conditions further sharpen the increase in 1975.
In the last quarter of 1974, when unemployment rapidly rising, serious crime was 18 per cent.
"I's going to get worse," siad Dr. Charles L. Newman, coordinator of Law Enforcement and Correctional Services at Pennsylvania State University.
"It's not going to be limited to property crimes either," he said in an interview. "Crimes against persons are going to go up, too."
FBI statistics released Monday showed the sharpest increase in crime in 14 years, mostly among property crimes such as car theft and burglary.
But he said that among young blacks, who bear the highest unemployment rate, the motivation to commit crimes was one of the factors that enable to feed themselves or their families.
Dr. M. Harvey Brener of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who researches crime causes for the federal government, has said that a growing difference between crime and a declining economy.
Newman said, however, the frustration was increasing among Americans of all races who no longer believed they had a chance to compete economically.
"It cuts across all races," he said. "There is nothing relieving the current feeling of utter frustration and inability of government to react."
Because of welfare and other social service programs, Brenner said, only rarely is crime the result of economic desperation.
"It is people using crime to demonstrate to themselves or their peers that they are responsible."
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carriers laden with troops based at the village went off with him.
Air Vietnam tickets to Saigon rose quickly in price on the black market, soaring to about $180, about four months salary for a middle level government official.
There were near riots as customers demanded more.
The Americans gathered at a former U.S. base in Haiti, called appropriately enough, the Albanian
depositors to withdraw only 20 per cent of their funds.
By the next day, government forces, including the 2nd Infantry Division, had fled not only Quang Ngal Province, but also Quang Tin. The departure prompted an American observer to say, "The Communists are preceded by two days of panic and fear. When they arrive, all they have to do is direct traffic."
Early Thursday morning they were taken by truck to the waterfront and by speed-boats to a waiting U.S. freighter in the harbor, the Pioneer Contender.
All escape roads led to Da Nang, and by Wednesday the sprawling park city where the U.S. Marines landed 10 years ago was crammed with refugees parked in graveyards and under awnings at the waterfront.
Da Nang was so big and spawning that it seemed inconceivable to the Americans to counter him.
As the city began to burst its seams with people, it became apparent that the government apparatus had broken down. Fewer and fewer police could be seen.
Walking among them looking dazed were soldiers from all the northern corps region divisions—many with bare feet and most of them with blonde hair—were their departure from the battle area.
More than 300 Americans were still in Da Nang on Wednesday, one-third of them with the U.S. consultate, the others contractors and businessman.
But in the arithmetic of war, Da Nang was in fact doomed. The Communist side had six infantry divisions to the north and south. Siguan government had a piece of one left.
No visible attempt was being made to regroup the soldiers straggling in from combat areas so the city was almost undefended.
The immediate danger was to come not from Communist forces somewhere in the hills and paddywacks outside. It was to come from within the city itself, from the soldiers with no boots and no hope, from the hungry refugees, from the police agents and paid informers who had made a living capitalizing on the misery of others.
By Wednesday night the Americans were advised to leave. Later that same night gunfire punctured the night sky. Soldiers were resupplying themselves from liquor stores and grocery shops. Refugees who had been in Dan Nang for years complained that no rice had reached them from the government for 10 days. Banks would allow
Quaker Paul Judge didn't get the word to move until later. On Thursday morning he looked out his window at the Pacific Hotel and watched five or six Vietnamese special forces paratroopers striding down the center of the street outside, shooting up the center of one man who was killed. Later that day judge himself through the streets by two groups of soldiers, yelling and screaming at him for money.
Judge said he saw no police in Da Nang Thursday afternoon.
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