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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 29, 1975
Page 6
News summary
By United Press International
Evacuation difficult
SAIGON (UPI) — The final American evacuation from
South Vietnam today was being carried out under difficult
circumstances. U.S. helicopters dodged Viet Cong
mortars, South Vietnamese soldiers resentful of the
evacuation fired on buses carrying Americans to the Tan
Son Nhut Air Base and desperate civilians crowded some
Americans out of the vehicles. The helicopters, guarded
by Navy jet fighters, flew the Americans to 7th-Fleet
aircraft carriers in the South China Sea. In Saigon
President Duong Van Minh is attempting to open peace
talks with the Communists. An estimated 150,000
Communist troops surrounded Saigon, outnumbering
government defenders 3 to 1.
Heads for approval
WASHINGTON UPI) — The $327 million and authority
to use American troops in evacuation operations in South
Vietnam requested by President Ford 18 days ago,
appeared headed f p r congressional approval today. The
House votes this afternoon on a House-Senate conference
report and if it passes it will be sent to the White House
where the President is expected to sign it. Ford is waiting
for Congress to tell him what power he has to evacuate
allied Vietnamese, who might face Communist reprisals.
Surrender to police
JOHANNESBURG (UPI) — David Protter, a South
African Jew employed by the Israeli Consulate as a
security officer, surrendered to police today. Protter
Monday took over the consulate single-handedly and held
the more than 20 persons in the building hostage for 16
hours. At least two persons were killed and 32 injured,
although none of the hostages was harmed. Protter
threatened to blow up the building, along with the
hostages, unless he was given safe passage to Tel Aviv in
an Israeli plane where he apparently wanted to speak with
the prime minister. Protter surrendered quietly just
before dawn and was driven to Pretoria by South African
police.
Wallace trapped
WASHINGTON (UPI) — George C. Wallace ran into a
hornet’s nest of questioning House freshmen Democrats
Monday. He had come to Capitol HUI to testify in support
of federal funds for a waterway project. Once during the
questioning, Wallace was given a temporary respite by
the buzzer signaling a House vote, but he wes asked to
wait and resume the discussion after the vote was taken.
FinaUy the ordeal was over and a tired Wallace was
wheeled from the room with his wife by his side.
New cash rebate
DETROIT (UPI) — The Chrysler Corp, is launching a
new rebate program to persuade car buyers to buy its
small cars. And it’s tying its promise of S2OO rebates to the
federal tax rebate checks that start going out in the mail
in May. Hopefully the recipients will use their income tax
rebates to make down payments on the cars. The rest of
the major auto makers say they have no intention of
joining in the new program.
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Boy saw sister,
NEW ORLEANS (UPI) —
Dickie del Real, 9, saw his
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Boca Raton, Fla., family of six
whose plane crashed into Lake
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pilot of the plane, and his
daughter Lisa, 5, are unac
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daughter Carmen, 11, and son
Mark Antonio, 4, were drowned.
Dickie, lifted from the lake 40
hours after the crash, is the
only known survivor and was in
good condition today in East
Jefferson General Hospital.
The body of an unidentified
man was found Monday after
noon on the north shore of the
lake in the area where the
bodies of three del Reals were
recovered, but family members
viewed the body and said it was
not that of del Real.
In a press conference Mon
day, Tom Ward, Savannah,
mother drown
Ga., brother-in-law of Mrs. del
Real, said the entire family
escaped from the plane which
sank within five minutes after
the crash.
“After they got on the wing,
the plane capsized two or three
minutes later,” Ward said.
“The family then went to the
tail of the plane, which held up a
little longer.”
Ward said del Real gave his
family survival instructions and
told them they ’’’’must not get
sleepy, must not give up.”
The plane was equipped with
life jackets, but they were not
used, apparently because the
craft sank rapidly, he said.
Dickie was paired in the
water with his sister Carmen
and said the lights of a rescue
helicopter shone on them
Wednesday night. The following
day Ward said Dickie waved a
water jug at another helicopter,
but could not attract its
attention.
“The second night his sister
kept slapping him to keep him
alive,” Ward said.
Dickie’s grandmother, Mrs.
Walter T. Salathe of New
Orleans, said, “Dickie saw his
mother die and the little girl
(Carmen) die.”
“He is very quiet,” Ward
said after visiting Dickie. “He
won’t come directly to the
subject. He senses very deeply
what’s happened.”
Ward said the Coast Guard
abandoned its search too early
Thursday, the day after the
crash. He also said it displayed
an overall lack of coordination
once rescue efforts resumed
after Dickie was pulled from
Lake Pontchartrain Friday
night.
The Coast Guard “only J
searched so long. I believe they
thought their responsibility ...
as far as rescue was over,” ,
Ward said of the initial search
which was centered no more
than 10 miles off the south
shore of the lake. '*
Dickie and the bodies of his
family were found more than 15
miles away on the north shore ’
of the lake.
“The operation has stepped
up (now), but it is a little late ’
in the game,” Ward said.