Mayaguez Rescue Operation
> V * *;^* o 't .r^ ' -.y ‘ l / y - - : V V 4. Suptttng Irralb Manchester—A City of Village Charm PRICEi nFTEEN CENTS mM- mm. MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, MAY 15,1975- VOL. XCIV, No. 192 THIRTY.TWO PAGES — TWO SECTIONS * • 3 ^ i # P Mayaguez Rescue Operation ( ' m m Completed by Marine Force ’('M By HELEN THOMAS attempts to send helicopters in for the Defense Secretary James Schlesinger at bodian gunboats Wednesday and drove UPI White House Reporter Marines were repulsed by heavy Com an early morning news conference called others away. Marines boarded the WASHINGTON (UPI) - Helicopters munist gunfire from the island. the operation “entirely successful” and Mayaguez near the tiny island of Koh Tang flying after dark today rescued a Marine paid tribute to the “professional skill” of 30 miles off the Cambrian coastline. The Some of the wounded were evacuated assault force from under heavy Com vessel was unoccupied but there was early, and'indications were that at least the Marines. munist gunfire on Koh Tang island off the Ford drew strong bipartisan praise from warm food still in the galley. eight wounded were among those Marines Cambodian coast, the Pentagon said. Congress for ordering the rescue after The Marines were landed on Koh Tang still on the island. But the Pentagon said Pentagon spokesman Joseph Laitin said diplomatic efforts fail^ to get the ship, by helicopter and Navy fighters bombed the assault force was “not pinned down.” the last helicopter took off at 9:10 a.m. captured in international waters Monday. an airfield on the Cambodian mainland in President Ford, carefully observing the EDT from the little island and landed 10 Presidential aides said the use of an effort to forestall any Cambodian air 1973 War Powers Act which requires the minutes later on the deck of the carrier American warships, aircraft and Marines support to the island.
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