IN BRIEF: President Thieu, U.S. Had Been "Deaf and Blind"
Stanley R Rader
Stanley R Rader
Church of God
Born: 1930 Died: July 2, 2002 Member Since: 1975 Ordained: 1979 Office: Evangelist
Performed accounting work for the Church starting in 1958.
Cairo, April 22: This morning's Cairo newspapers announced that President Thieu had resigned and, breaking his almost stoic silence, placed the blame for the agonies of his countrymen squarely on the United States. He charged the U.S. had been "deaf and blind" to his appeals concerning the North Vietnamese buildup in flagrant violation of the Paris Peace Accord - violations dating from January 1973. Yesterday, we flew over Saigon as we headed for Cairo after departing Manila. Captain Black, our pilot and former Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, called our attention to Saigon below and mentioned that we almost surely would not be passing that way again in the foreseeable future (we are not granted clearance over North Korea, North Vietnam, the U .S.S.R., the People's Republic of China and Cambodia).
Please click the above PDF icon(s) to view or download the full Magazine Article in PDF format.
