South Vietnam reported the abandonment to Communist forces of three coastal enclaves — Tuy Hòa, Nha Trang and the huge military base of Cam Ranh — and the inland resort city of Đà Lạt. The coastal enclaves of Tuy Hòa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh, the huge military base and deep‐water port, were reported lost, and this morning the Saigon military command confirmed that Đà Lạt in the Central Highlands, and Phan Rang and Phan Thiết along the coast were also gone. Fighting was reported in all provinces ringing Saigon. The government armed forces appeared to be falling apart. The South Vietnamese Senate overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a government of national union to end the war. It seemed unlikely to bring about any change since it has no legal force without President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu’s approval. Premier Trần Thiện Khiêm said in a brief broadcast address that the government was determined to defend what remained and eventually recover areas recently lost.
Against a background of deepening crisis, the Government seemed powerless. Generals exhorted the people and their troops to stand fast and the vanguard of what promised to be a host of refugees began to flow into Saigon. Communist demolition units and infantry divisions supported by tanks, were reported drawing closer to the capital. Government troops were fighting Communist forces near Xuân Lộc, 38 miles northwest of Saigon, United Press International reported.
Last night, for the first time in the history of the Vietnam war, the Saigon command issued a military communiqué without reference to Military Regions I and II—the northern part of the country. The communiqué thus acknowledged their loss, although pockets of government troops were undoubtedly scattered through the region. The apparent loss of Nha Trang deprives the government of its last major port city on the South China Sea. A Government spokesman said radio contact with the city was lost Tuesday. Although Đà Lạt had been abandoned, it was not known last night whether Communist forces had yet reached that city. In any event, it was theirs if they chose to occupy it,
In Saigon, sound trucks cruised the streets broadcasting radio and television yesterday afternoon, Premier Trần Thiện Khiêm said: “During the past weeks, we have suffered heavy casualties only because we have lost self-control and failed to keep order. I affirm the government’s determination to defend the remaining territory of South Vietnam and to eventually retake all territory lost to the Communists recently.”
In another speech broadcast yesterday, General Cao Văn Viên, the chief of the Army General Staff, said: “I want to assure you, my fellow combatants, that we will have no other choice but to fight for survival.” He said that the army had suffered heavy losses, including Military Regions I and II, because of “strong enemy pressure and fighting under difficult conditions. The enemy is now spread thinly, and is encountering serious supply problems. This is the moment for us to stop the enemy and annihilate the main force units of the Communist aggressors. The historic hour has come. With our determination to win, we certainly shall win.”
Meanwhile, evacuation of some towns and cities continues. Royal Australian Air Force C‐130’s flew about 1,800 people out of the coastal town of Phan Rang yesterday. The loading of refugees went unusually smoothly at first, as Vietnamese security forces held back the mobs. But a few Communist rockets hit some distance away, causing panic. The security guards quickly clawed their way aboard the plaines, which took off just ahead of the mob.
Typical of the frenzied evacuation was that of the faculty and students of the South Vietnamese Military Academy — the equivalent of West Point. The academy was first removed from Đà Lạt to the coastal town of Phan Rang. When the fall of Phan Rang became obvious yesterday, the academy was moved to Phan Thiết and then that in turn was abandoned. A major part of the military academy then reached the district town of Hàm Tân, 75 miles east of Saigon, the Saigon military spokesman said. But he also reported that late yesterday another column of refugees only 10 miles from Hàm Tân was fired on by Communist units and one truck was set afire.
“If one Vietnamese is allowed on the aircraft, we’ll never be able to stop them,” an American said to a South Vietnamese Army lieutenant pleading that children be put on a mercy flight out of Nha Trang. Some Americans, holding shotguns, automatic rifles and submachine guns, kept long‐time Vietnamese friends from taking the places they had been promised on helicopters flying from Nha Trang today on the way to refuge in Saigon. Other Americans fired into the air and beat back pleading Vietnamese who tugged at them desperately and then watched helplessly as the last two evacuation helicopters flew off. Hours later Nha Trang fell to the North Vietnamese and Việt Cộng.
United States civilian employes at Nha Trang left behind more than 100 Vietnamese employes and their families in the United States Consulate General’s compound. “I’m so ashamed of the United States government that I’ll never be able to work for them again,” a government employe said. “They totally abrogated their responsibility. And the pity is that it was so uncalled for. The people in charge knew eight days ago what was coming, but they refused to do anything about it.” Vietnamese employes who had been promised they would be evacuated, on realizing that the Americans were abandoning them, rushed the compound. United States Marines closed the gates. When the Vietnamese dashed onto the heliport through unguarded gates, they were met by more armed Americans.
Refugees having been arriving by the thousand, by ship and on foot, at Vũng Tàu, southeast of Saigon. At least 7,000 had arrived from Quy Nhơn, Cam Ranh and other points by late yesterday. Government officials said that Communist demolition soldiers disguised as civilians or as Saigon soldiers are moving with the refugees, and it is believed that many are already in Saigon. To impede an expected wave of terrorism in the capital, Saigon City Hall yesterday prohibited the use of cyclos, the popular three‐wheeled bicycletaxis. But the order seems to have been ignored up to now. City Hall also announced that the police had been ordered to shoot looters and robbers on sight.
The Việt Cộng claimed today that life had “returned to normal” in Huế, Quảng Ngãi, and several other areas under their control and that nearly 100 government workers and officers had joined their side. The claim came from the Việt Cộng’s military delegation to the Joint Military Commission at Saigon’s Tân Sơn Nhứt Air Base. Major Phương Nam said that in Huế the local chapter of the neutralist and predominantly Buddhist Forces for National Reconciliation continue to operate. At Quảng Ngãi, he said, about 80 South Vietnamese Government officers “declared they have quit the Saigon administration to join the regional revolutionary administration.” He said that Việt Cộng officials in Pleiku and Kon Tum Provinces had distributed “dozens of tons of rice to the provinces’ inhabitants,” and that residents, including montagnards, had been allowed to return to their villages.
In Paris, leaders of the Việt Cộng’s Provisional Revolutionary Government called for an uprising against the Saigon government of President Thiệu and a negotiated end to the fighting. Mrs. Nguyễn Thị Bình, the Việt Cộng Foreign Minister, said her group was ready to talk immediately with a new Saigon government replacing the administration of Mr. Thiệu.
The timing and tactics of a battle for Saigon are now in the hands of the North Vietnamese high command, according to United States military sources. The Communists, with six divisions in the Saigon area, are in a position to exploit their momentum and the confusion in the city and launch a major attack where and when they wish. The sources believe that the fighting north and northeast of Saigon foreshadows an offensive in the next four or five days.
Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, a retired high‐level planner, said yesterday on the CBS morning news that the military situation was neither containable nor reversible. The pattern of events has been one of flight rather than the fighting withdrawals the military situation demanded. Saigon Government troops have fought a few isolated actions, but situations regarded as stable collapsed as poor leadership, panic, rumor and, in General Gavin’s view, Communist political infiltration sapped the will to fight.
Only a week ago General Frederick C. Weyand said at Nha Trang that he was heartened by the performance of government troops and that the situation there appeared stabilized. The visiting Army Chief of Staff said the forces “were not demoralized in any sense of the word.” Nha Trang was occupied by the Communists on Monday after what appears to have been brief and dispirited resistance. Other cities such as Tuy Hòa, on the coast, and Đà Lạt, inland, have not fallen to the Communists in the sense that they were taken by storm. Reports reaching Washington say that in most cases they were abandoned after token resistance. American officers who trained the Saigon Government army find the rout inexplicable. They cannot accept that the soldiers they knew could have behaved so badly. Yet their minds tell them that the war is close to being over.
Saigon is on the brink of chaos, full of fear and rumor as some foreigners ship out their acquisitions and others prepare to stay to the end. “C’est fini, c’est fini,” a Vietnamese Roman Catholic priest repeated over and over at the airport. A Vietnamese man, with tears in his eyes, said goodbye to an American and whispered hoarsely: “We will survive in Vietnam. Another million people may die perhaps, but we will survive and be proud.” A young widow with two small children trembled as she said, “Where is there to go after Saigon? What is there to do? Wait, wait, wait.”
There is a sense of doom now in Saigon, a sense of engulfing darkness in a capital that seems terrified. A Vietnamese woman burst into tears the other day at a restaurant. “What’s going to happen to us?” she asked companions. “Will they shoot us? Will they shoot my family? What’s going to happen?”
A plane carrying 57 orphaned Vietnamese children to new homes in the United States landed in Oakland, California tonight after leaving Saigon without official clearance. The children were greeted by doctors, nurses and numerous well‐wishers as they landed at Oakland International Airport. They ranged in age from 3 months up, and in most cases were already spoken for by adoptive parents. They were loaded onto a World Airways DC‐8 jet in almost total darkness because Tân Sơn Nhứt Airport in Saigon was on full military alert. A much larger airlift, of 2,000 Vietnamese orphans, was announced Wednesday night by the head of the United States Agency for International Development. Adoption agencies in the United States are being swamped with calls from people eager to care for Vietnamese orphans.
As the jet plane prepared to take off for the 25‐hour flight to Oakland by way of Tokyo, the airport was closed down because a Việt Cộng attack was feared, and all nonmilitary people were ordered off the base. The pilot, Ken Healy, said he was told by the Tân Sơn Nhứt Airport tower: “Don’t take off. Don’t take off. You have no clearance.” Mr. Healy, 52 years old, who flew refugees out of China in the late nineteen‐forties and made the chaotic last flight out of Đà Nẵng last week, put the plane into the air anyway. “I just didn’t get the message in time,” he said later with a smile.
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington), once one of Congress’ most outspoken Hawks on the Vietnam war, said in Sacramento that additional U.S. aid to South Vietnam would be “money down the drain.” Jackson also was sharply critical of President Ford, saying Mr. Ford “reached an all-time low” earlier this week in “blaming Congress for the debacle in Vietnam.” Jackson was in Sacramento for meetings with legislators and state officials.
Secretary General Waldheim said in an interview in Rome that the issue of Vietnamese refugees was a very controversial political problem that the United Nations should avoid. He said he was maintaining contact through the Việt Cộng liaison office in Geneva and with North Vietnam through private channels in Paris. He indicated he believed any public appeal by him to the Communist authorities to let refugees leave would be “counterproductive.”
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The United States Embassy in Phnom Penh announced that it would begin evacuating its diplomatic and military personnel today as well as members of other allied missions in the Cambodian capital. Robert Keeley, deputy chief of the mission, denied that the fall of Neak Luang or the departure of Cambodia’s President, Marshal Nol, had played a decisive role in bringing about the evacuation announcement. The initial American evacuation will involve 10 to 15 percent of the 200 members of the official staff and of those under contract, as well as members of the staffs of relief agencies and of the Japanese, South Korean, South Vietnamese, Chinese Nationalist and Thai Embassies. There is little doubt that the American decision to evacuate will be a major psychological blow to the Cambodian Government. The evacuation planes, a chartered Continental Air Services two‐engine C‐46 and an Air Force C‐130 with an Air Force crew, will go to Bangkok.
Meanwhile, with the loss of Neak Luong, the vital Mekong River town, 12 small river boats docked at the capital with all that the government had been able to salvage there and at another outpost. Of the 50,000 to 70,000 people believed to have been in the towns of Neak Luong and Banam when they fell yesterday, only about 140 had been successfully evacuated. A motley group of marines, soldiers and their civilian camp followers, they had all come from Banam, the lesser of the two towns, about 35 miles southeast of here. Evidently not a single soldier, civilian or weapon was evacuated from the battered and burning town of Neak Luong a few miles farther down the river. Neak Luong, which had been under relentless siege for nearly three months, lost radio contact with Banam at about noon yesterday—at almost precisely the time, as it happens, that President Lon Nol was flying out of Cambodia into exile.
It seems inevitable that the fall of Neak Luong will bring a sharp increase in the pressure on the capital within a matter of days. The headquarters of the Cambodian armed forces was reported to be in deep gloom. “They’d just rather talk about anything else,” an American reported. “They never believed they were going to lose Neak Luong.” An American relief worker who had been deeply involved in the effort to distribute rice to the famished refugees trapped in Neak Luong drew his own conclusions about the significance of its fall for Phnom Penh. “This town is finished, this town is finished,” he said. The immediate question was how the insurgents would exploit their new advantage. Will they attack the capital from its southern side, which they know to be lightly defended? Or will they step up pressure on Pochentong Airport in hopes of halting the airlift?
The government can strengthen its forces in Phnom Penh only by abandoning provincial capitals it still holds. Short of that to strengthen its defenses on one side of town, it must weaken them on another. Already long stretches of the capital’s defense perimeter are virtually undefended. Last night, for instance, a small detachment, of 30 soldiers abandoned the village of Prek Bang Kang on the east bank of the Mekong river here across from a naval base at Chrui Changvar Krau. This morning six rockets struck the naval base. Less than two miles away, according to military sources, 18 government soldiers were killed and many more were wounded in a clash with the insurgents at Arey Khsat.
After the units fighting in Banam lost radio contact with Neak Luong, they lost contact among themselves. In desperate, uncoordinated efforts, they tried to fight their way out of the town under heavy shelling. Finally, as night fell, the boats sailed away from their moorings. It was too late, the young officers said, for them to attempt any rescues at Neak Luong. The shelling, they said, prevented them from going to the infirmary to rescue any of the wounded there. A corporal named Mein Thit, who was wounded by shrapnel a mile outside Banam two days ago, managed to board one of the boats. Luckily, he had never gone to the infirmary. “Why go to the infirmary?” he asked when he was interviewed at a military hospital here today. “They didn’t have any medicine.”
Alexander Shelepin, former Soviet secret police chief, flew home to Moscow from Prestwick, Scotland, after complaining that paid professional demonstrators led by Zionists had tried to spoil his visit to Britain. A group of Ukrainians at the Prestwick airport held aloft placards calling him a mass murderer. Shelepin, now leader of the Soviet trade union movement, ended his visit 48 hours ahead of schedule.
Twelve parties, almost all proclaiming, leftist doctrines, began a threeweek campaign today for a constituent assembly whose power to make a new constitution is limited by the armed forces. Despite this, the parties threw themselves enthusiastically into what has been billed as Portugal’s first free election in close to 50 years. The voting will be on April 25, the first anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the longentrenched rightist regime. Shortly after midnight, teams of party workers began to plaster Lisbon and other cities with posters. Since buildings were already almost hidden by the political propaganda of more than 11 months, it was largely a question of just another layer.
Fishermen called off their blockade of Newcastle-On-Tyne, England, but the protest against imports of inexpensive foreign fish continued at more than 45 other ports on the Scottish and northern English coasts. Authorities were seeking legal injunctions to lift the blockade.
The Irish Republican Army bombed a travel agency in Belfast in its first official breach of the ceasefire it declared February 10. No one was injured in the blast at the Transworld office in Great Victoria Street. The Belfast brigade of the IRA Provisionals said in a statement: “This is meant to serve as a warning that further violations of the truce by the British army will no longer be tolerated.” It referred to the wounding of two members of Sinn Fein, the IRA’s political arm, by British soldiers March 13.
A bus, carrying French pilgrims on its way back from Notre Dame de la Salette to Loiret, lost its brakes, then plunged 80 feet into a ravine near Vizille, killing 27 people.
The new head of Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry, while stressing continuity in Saudi policies, has suggested that Jews have a right to worship at their sacred sites in Jerusalem — a view that had not been heard publicly in the passionately anti‐Israeli city of Jidda in recent memory. Official Saudi statements about Jerusalem are subject to much scrutiny here in the kingdom’s diplomatic capital because the issue of Jerusalem has long seemed the most difficult problem in achieving peace between the Arabs and Israel. Saudi Arabia has been the most insistent of the Arab Countries on Arab recovery of the Old City of Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in the 1967 war. The Israelis have been equally insistent that they will not relinquish the Old city.
Iraqi armored columns, without encountering resistance, have reoccupied the border areas that were seized by the Kurdish rebels a year ago with Iranian support. As the tanks rolled to the Iranian border, they passed stores of Kurdish families that were returning to their villages and farmlands rather than take asylum in Iran. The right of return, as well as the right to asylum in Iran, were established in the Iranian‐Iraqi accord of March 6 by which the Shah agreed to cut off aid to the rebels and mark the disputed border areas. “How could I stay away from my home now that the war is over?” said Mohammed Ali Abbas on a road between fields green with alfalfa and new wheat. An Iraqi colonel who toured the southern sector of the border by helicopter said: ‘Our operations have been entirely successful. Not a drop of blood has been shed on either side.”
The world’s strictest automobile emission standards went into effect in Japan in an effort to cut carbon monoxide discharge by 90%. The standards apply immediately to cars, small trucks and buses made and sold in Japan beginning this month. Vehicles already on the road will come under the standards next December and imported vehicles next April.
The Chinese government accused the United States of having “contravened the spirit of the Shanghai communique” by its “unreasonable cancellation” of a Chinese entertainment troupe’s scheduled tour of the United States. Postponement of the tour, announced last week by the U.S. State Department, came after members of the Chinese troupe made known their plans to sing a song that spoke of China’s determination to take over Taiwan.
The CN Tower was topped off at 1,185.4 feet or 553.33 meters in height, as the last section was put into place by a helicopter, making the building the largest free-standing structure in the world. The Tower would open on June 26, 1976.
A meningitis epidemic that killed 4,000 persons in Brazil last year could reach “unbearable levels” in the coming winter, Health Minister Paulo de Almeida Machado said. He said tests showed that vaccination could stop the epidemic only after 80% of the population had been reached. Mass vaccinations have been started with the first of 80 million doses of vaccine ordered from abroad.
Four carloads of guerrillas killed an army colonel and a policeman in Buenos Aires and wounded the apparent target of the attack, Gabriel Morales, chief of security for Argentina’s presidential secretary. Another policeman and a chauffeur also were wounded. when grenades were tossed and guns were fired into Morales’ car. An army colonel passing by was slain in an exchange of gunfire with the guerrillas.
A Rhodesian court ruled that continued detention of a black nationalist leader, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole, is justified because he still supports terrorist activity to overthrow the white minority regime. The Protestant clergyman declined to attend the hearing in Salisbury because no evidence was heard on a second set of charges — that he plotted to kill political rivals. Mr. Sithole was released from 10 years of detention last December to participate in talks with the regime on ending the nine-year independence dispute. He was rearrested last month.
The prosecutor in his bribery trial of John Connally, former Secretary of the Treasury, told the jury there was documentary evidence proving he solicited and got a $10,000 payoff for helping the dairy industry. He said the money “left a trail of footprints.” Edward Bennett Williams, the chief defense attorney, said he would prove that the chief prosecution witness, Jake Jacobsen, was an inveterate perjurer who embezzled the funds.
Administration officials close to President Ford said he was so undecided before signing the antirecession tax-cut bill that he had a second speech prepared in case he vetoed it. Insiders said that only two of his high-ranking advisers strongly urged a veto — Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and William Simon, Secretary of the Treasury. So did several conservative Republican members of Congress. But most of his advisers counseled signing the bill to get the quick tax cut and also for long-range political considerations.
People have begun to postpone surgery because of the recession and hospitals are now operating 10% to 20% below their usual levels, according to a survey conducted by a private research firm. Among other effects, the economic slowdown has contributed to problems hospitals are having paying their bills and has reduced demand for medical supplies, according to Richard L. Hughes, director of the health care study for Arthur D. Little, Inc., of Cambridge, Massachusetts. People who have been laid off and have lost their medical insurance are especially likely to put off surgery. At the same time, insurance companies are trying to cut expenses by challenging claims! which delays payment to hospitals, the study said.
Admiral Hyman G. Rickover testified that hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive profits have been made on defense contracts. But, he told a Senate-House Economic Committee, the Renegotiation Board which is supposed to recover excess profits is inept and ineffective. Rickover, the Navy’s top expert on nuclear-powered ships, said defense firms were constantly filing unjustified claims for extra payments. He estimated at least. 30% of such claims were excessive. Rickover suggested that the Renegotiation Board be put under the control of Congress, taking it away from the President, that all claims be settled strictly on legal merits and that the law against false claims be enforced strictly.
Mayor Richard J. Daley was at his desk first thing today, secure for another four years in the job he has held since 1955 — longer than anyone in the city’s history. It was 9 AM and the 72‐year‐old Mayor began the daily routine of running the nation’s second largest city amid visits from loyal officials and allies who came to offer congratulations on Mr. Daley’s overwhelming victory. With only a handful of precincts not tallied, the unofficial count gave the mayor 77.74 percent, or 536,413 votes yesterday. His two opponents, John Hoellen, a Republican, and Willie Mae Reid, a Socialist Worker, were considered only tokens after Mr. Daley easily won the Democratic party primary in February.
Rep. Morris K. Udall of Arizona, one of five declared candidates for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, earned $79,620 last year and has real estate holdings worth $128,000, according to a lengthy financial statement he made public. Udall’s congressional salary is $42,500. In addition, he said he received interest payments of $4,995, stock dividends of $674 and other income of approximately $31,450. His federal income tax bill for 1974 was $11,555.
Kansas City and Cleveland made strong bids today to become the site of the Democratic party’s Presidential convention next year. But the first day of convention site hearings at Democratic headquarters here was viewed by ranking party officials as little more than a warm‐up for the main contenders tomorrow, led by New York and Los Angeles. New Orleans and Miami Beach will also make their appeals. The failure of Chicago officials to show up with a presentation today was taken as a sign that Mayor Richard J. Daley, embattled host of the Democrats’ stormy 1968 convention, does not care to bring the party back in 1976.
A man has been arrested and charged in the murder of a United Mine Workers official in Washington, D.C., last November, police announced. Charles Reavis, 29, was arraigned in connection with the slaying of Samuel Littlefield, 54, of Bessemer, Alabama, who had been in Washington for union contract negotiations. Littlefield, president of a union local, was shot and killed Nov. 15 after he walked into a hotel room where a man was trying to rob two other union officials.
The governors of eight Westem states, suggesting that they have been left out of federal decisions affecting their region’s economic development, demanded from President Ford today a “greater voice” in policies on agriculture and energy. In a letter released at the Western Governors’ Conference on Agriculture here, the governors called on the President to approve a strip‐mining reclamation bill, to help pay for services in areas disrupted by energy development, to halt beef imports and to provide immediate aid to hard‐pressed ranchers and farmers.
The Argonaut Insurance Co. of Menlo Park, California, was barred from imposing increases averaging 185% in the cost of medical malpractice insurance for 23 hospitals in New York. U.S. District Judge Charles Tenney of Manhattan also enjoined the company from canceling unexpired malpractice policies for the hospitals The public interest in continued availability of quality health service requires that a preliminary injunction be issued, Tenney said. The action came in response to a suit filed by the hospitals. Thirteen of them would have had their policies canceled this week if they did not agree to the new rates.
Mayor Paul Soglin, Madison’s mustachioed one‐time “hippie alderman,” said today that his easy re‐election victory proved a majority of this Wisconsin city’s voters were willing to trust a political activist in office. Mr. Soglin, who narrowly won his office two years ago, turned back a challenge from a businessman, Henry Reynolds, in yesterday’s balloting, capturing 61 per cent of the vote.
In the short term, only increased prices will halt gasoline consumption, but the long-term solution must be production of automobiles that use less gasoline and also cost less to buy, a Rand Corp. researcher told the Assembly Energy and Diminishing Materials Committee in Sacramento. Sorrell Wildhorn said the year-long study was based on the assumption that government policies are needed.
Standard & Poor’s, one of two leading credit-rating agencies, suspended its “A” rating of New York City bonds — an action seen as a severe setback in the city’s battle to remain solvent. It is expected to erode further investors’ confidence in city securities and to raise interest rates and worsen the prospects for the next major note sale. Mayor Beame said that the action was “unwarranted.” The rating agency said it was hopeful that the suspicion would be quickly ended and the city’s rating restored.
The General Accounting Office reported that the Navy’s planned hovercraft ship was plagued by rising costs, reductions in range, inadequate sensors and other problems. The cost of developing a single “surface effects” ship, theoretically capable of skimming on a cushion of air at speeds up to 80 knots, has jumped from $210 million to $613 million, according to a GAO report to Congress. The GAO said the ship’s speed advantage could be negated if it was equipped with existing sensors and weapons. Its range has been dropped from 3,500 miles to 2,800.
The Pittsburgh Pirates signed pitched Sam McDowell as a free agent. The 32-year-old was a Pittsburgh native, signing with the Indians in 1960 right out of Central Catholic HS in Pittsburgh. He was one of the most intimidating pitchers of his time, possibly the hardest thrower of his day, who not only led the league in strikeouts five times, he also issued the most walks five times as well. In 11 seasons with Cleveland, he had a 122-109 record with 2,159 strikeouts in 2,109.2 innings pitched. Prior to 1972, McDowell was traded to the Giants, where injuries and off-field issues began to take their toll on his career. He moved on to the Yankees in the middle of 1973 and was released by them after the 1974 season. McDowell went 1-6, 4.69 in 1974, making seven starts and six relief appearances. He was a non-roster player in Spring Training for the Pirates in 1975, before he made the team as a reliever. He made 14 appearances, one as a starter, and he had a 2-1, 2.86 record in 34.2 innings before he was released in late June. That was the end of his playing career. He finished with 141 wins, a 3.17 ERA and 2,453 strikeouts.
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Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor (“Game of Thrones”; “Narcos”; “The Mandalorian”), in Santiago, Chile.
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Nate Huffman, NBA center (Toronto Raptors), in Battle Creek, Michigan (d. 2015, of cancer).
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