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Neak Luong falls after heavy onslaught by Communist-led insurgent troops; had been under seige for more than 2 mos; Banam, its twin city, also falls; fate of at least 3,000 Govt soldiers, 40,000 civilian residents and 20,000 refugees in city at time of collapse is unknown; strategic consequences of insurgent victory assessed; map (M)
Airline officials in S Vietnam rept all flights out of Saigon are fully booked as many Amers flee in wake of N Vietnamese onslaught; US Embassy in Saigon says it has not ordered evacuation of its staff or dependents; acknowledges that embassy has authorized 'favorable response' to officers with families who want to move dependents out of area; total of 1,486 Amers are working for US Govt in Saigon; activities in US Govt circles in Saigon reptdly are relatively normal; exodus of local Amer officials in Danang reptdly contributed to ensuing chaos by civilians as they attempted to evacuate area; travel agents rept some internatl airlines that fly to Saigon are leery about continuing flights since many have routes that take them over newly captured areas (M)
Some 30,000 persons visit Freedom Train exhibit on Apr 1, at Stanton, Del, in its first stop on nationwide tour that will take it to 80 cities in 21 mos; train, a private, tax-exempt, nonprofit project funded with $5.6-million in corp donations, is first major enterprise to appear so far in nation's Bicentennial celebration; visitors' reactions noted; crowd at Amer Freedom Train exhibit illus (L)
Panicky scene in Nha Trang described as civilian population flees city; soldiers recently arrived from Danang roam streets, plundering and looting shops; Amer Consul Gen Moncrieff J Spear reptdly closes consulate and evacuates staff by helicopter; riots break out as hundreds of people attempt to board helicopters evacuating consulate staff; all other escape routes from city have been closed; only foreigners believed to be left in city are 3 French priests and 1 nun who have decided not to abandon people they serve (M)
NYS Appeals Ct, 5-2, reinstates 5 perjury charges brought by special prosecutor Maurice Nadjari against ret Civil Ct Judge Ross J DiLorenzo, overturning Appellate Ct decision and setting way for new trial; charges involved Feb '67 meeting between DiLorenzo and Anthony Piazza, then-asst counsel to bi-state Waterfront Comm, in which DiLorenzo 'improperly and injudiciously' sought to influence outcome of comm's probe into organized crime on Bklyn waterfront; Judge Hugh Jones, in Nov '74 Appeals Ct decision, wrote 2 perjury counts involved DiLorenzo's denial of Waterfront Comm's investigation of Thomas Masotto and his employer Amor Stevedores (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 1975, covering April 2, 1975.
Led Zeppelin
Olivia Newton-John
John Denver
Bob Dylan
Minnie Riperton
1975Nate Huffman, American basketball player (died 2015)[†]
Nathaniel Thomas Huffman was an American professional basketball player, who played most of his career with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He was the 2001 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP, as well as the 2001 FIBA SuproLeague Player of the Year.
1975Randy Livingston, American basketball player[†]
Randy Livingston is an American former professional basketball player and current coach. He played parts of eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for nine different teams. The national high school player in the country in 1993, Livingston's college and professional careers were marked by a series of injuries that hampered his play.
1975Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski, German rower[†]
Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski is a German rower and two-time Olympic gold medalist.
1975Pattie Mallette, Canadian author and film producer[†]
Patricia Mallette is the mother of Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber. She also managed her son's early career. Her autobiography, Nowhere but Up, was published in 2012 by Christian book publisher Revell, and was number 17 on the New York Times Best Seller list during its first week of release.
1975Pedro Pascal, Chilean and American actor[†]
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014). He gained further prominence with his portrayal of Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017). He went on to appear in the films The Great Wall (2016), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Equalizer 2 (2018), and Triple Frontier (2019).
1975Vietnam War: Thousands of civilian refugees flee from Quảng Ngãi Province in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops.[†]
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming communist in 1975.
In 1975, the world population was approximately 4,070,735,277 people[†]