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Ford
He’s frustrated in push for aid idea
By HELEN THOMAS
UPI White House Reporter
WASHINGTON (UPI) —
President Ford, contending the
United States has an obligation
to South Vietnam, says he is
“absolutely convinced” that the
$722 million in arms aid he
requested would lead to a
negotiated settlement of the
war.
“The United States did not
carry out its commitment in
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the supplying of military
hardware and economic aid to
South Vietnam” in the same
way that Moscow and Peking
backed Hanoi, Ford said.
“I wish we had,” he said. “I
think if we had, this present
tragic situation in South Viet
nam would not have occurred.”
Displaying his frustration
Wednesday in a meeting of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors, Ford said, “The
human tragedy of South Viet
nam just makes me sick every
day I hear about it, read about
it, and see it.
“I am absolutely convinced if
Congress made available $722
million in military assistance”
in a few days “the South
Vietnamese could stabilize the
military situation in South
Vietnam today.”
He likened the situation in
Vietnam to “the last minute of
the last quarter of the game.”
“I don’t think we can blame
the Soviet Union, and the
People’s Republic of China for
supplying North Vietnam,”
Ford said.
“If we had done with our
allies what we had promised, I
think this whole tragedy could
have been eliminated.”
Most of the questions cen
tered on South Vietnam and
Cambodia. Ford said Prince
Norodom Sihanouk is “in no
position” to negotiate a Cam
bodian settlement. He said
leaders in Phnom Penh had
asked for a cease-fire and that
the United States would do
what it could to get a
negotiated settlement.
He disclosed that he had
ordered evacuation of all
nonessential American civilians
in South Vietnam.
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Ford said he would be
reluctant to make public the
confidential exchanges between
former President Nixon and
South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu during the
peace negotiations. He insisted
no secret commitments were
made to South Vietnam that
differed in substance from
Nixon’s public policy state
ments.
Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 17,1975
People
By United Press International
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Laine sues
SAN DIEGO (UPI) — Singer Frankie Laine sued a
boatbuilding firm for SIIO,OOO for not finishing his 46-foot
| yacht on time.
Laine and his wife Loleet filed suit in Superior Court
against Hawthorne Custom Yachts and its owners, saying
they failed to finish the boat by the contracted date, and it
|| cost him SIIO,OOO in legal costs to get a court order to tak p
h possession of the boat, move it to another yard and get it
y finished.
Israeli minister at party
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Israeli Foreign Minister and
Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon attended a private
| Israeli independence celebration here Wednesday.
Allon arrived Tuesday night, reportedly on a fund
raising tour before a meeting with Secretary of State
I Henry Kissinger in Washington.
• New hospital left
LOS ANGELES (UPI) — Dr. W. Stanley Mooneyham,
I president of a humanitarian group, said his organization’s
new hospital in Phnom Penh was left in condition for the
city’s Communist conquerers to put it to use immediately.
Mooneyham, head of World Vision International of
Monrovia, Calif., told a news conference Wednesday his
| group hopes to be allowed to continue to operate in Cam
bodia.
“We will go back under anybody’s government that will
I allow us to work,” Mooneyham said.
Turned down cold
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (UPI) — Former White House
Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman tried to enlist author
William Manchester to write his memoirs but was turned
down cold.
“I don’t do that sort of thing, but if I did Haldeman is the
second to last person I would do it for,” Manchester said
Wednesday. The last person, he said, would be former
President Richard Nixon.
Quake survivors
have reunion
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - Gladys Todd, 84,
remembers the morning of April 18, 1906, when America’s
worst earthquake swayed her three-story frame house
like a strong wind.
“I’d never seen an earthquake before. I thought it was
the wind coming through the Golden Gate,” she said.
Aftershocks jolted her off her bed as she tried to pull on
her stockings.
Brick buildings down the street crumbled. Fires started
by broken electrical and gas connections ravaged the city
for days.
The San Francisco ‘quake and resulting fire left 250,000
persons homeless —more than half the population. An
estimated 452 died.
“We had a roomer who slept through the whole thing.
Men can sleep through anything,” Mrs. Todd said during
an annual reunion of earthquake survivors.
Thirty oldsters living in the Victorian Hotel Wednesday
commemorated the anniversary of the worst earthquake
in the history of the United States. At least 20 of them lived
in San Francisco during the earthquake 69 years ago.
The ‘quake registered 8.3 on the Richter Scale and was
the most destructive in the recorded history of North
America.
“I was 15.1 said to mother, ‘The wind must be shaking
the house,”’ Mrs. Todd said. “My mother said, ‘Wind
nothing! It’s an earthquake! Hurry up and get dressed!’”
George Fagan, 82, was in St. Vincent’s Orphanage, 15
miles across San Francisco Bay in San Rafael, not far
from the jagged San Andreas Fault line which slipped
along a 270-mile course, offsetting roads, fences,
buildings, water and gas pipes by as much as 21 feet.
“All the candles in the chapel fell over. After the fire (in
San Francisco) we couldn’t see the sun for two weeks.
Ashes fell in our courtyard.”
Two months later Fagan was taken to the train station
in San Francisco.
“All of Market Street was black in ashes —and soldiers
everywhere. There was nothing left.”
In the days of chaos which followed the first great shock
at 5:13 a.m., an area of more than 2,593 acres was burned,
destroying 490 city blocks.
Nearby at San Jose, an insane asylum collapsed, killing
117 patients and attendants. Fifty persons lost their lives
at Santa Rosa.
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