Lê Đức Thọ arrives at Communist headquarters in Lộc Ninh to oversee the final Communist offensive drive. Well over two-thirds of Vietnam is now under Communist control.
A South Vietnamese plane attacked the presidential palace in Saigon with bombs and machine-gun fire in an evident attempt to kill President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, who was unhurt, military sources said. He reportedly was making phone calls from the palace soon afterward. The plane flew away quickly and panic followed in the streets of downtown Saigon.
The presidential palace is an ornate white structure surrounded by a large fenced‐off park in the center of Saigon, at the end of Thống Nhứt Boulevard (today Lê Duẩn Boulevard). Less than a mile down the boulevard is the United States Embassy compound, which came under heavy attack by Việt Cộng commandos in 1968. There was no visible damage to the palace. Eyewitnesses said the bomb or bombs did not hit the main structure but fell in the park behind it. A reliable source inside the presidential palace said the bomb killed two persons and wounded three others—all of them employees or guards.
The Độc Lập Palace was last attacked in 1962. Two mutinous Vietnamese Air Force pilots flying A‐1 Skyraiders largely demolished the palace with bombs and rockets but none of the family of President Ngô Đình Diệm was killed or even seriously injured. The palace, originally built for the French colonial governor general, was completely rebuilt after the bombing and fitted with bunkers and bomb shelters.
The F‐5 that attacked the palace today was said to have been one of a group of fighters that took off from Biên Hòa air base this morning on a regular strike mission. The plane reportedly broke formation and went for the palace in Saigon. A South Vietnamese Air Force informant said the identity of the renegade pilot could not be learned until his squadron had returned to Biên Hòa. The defenses of the palace apparently became alert to the danger only after the attack was almost finished. Anti-aircraft guns opened fire only during the last of three passes by the F‐5, and were not believed to have hit it.
North Vietnamese gunners shelled at least 10 district capitals in the Mekong Delta yesterday, with most of the fire concentrated on targets within 35 miles of Saigon. While shelling dominated the military action during the day, some infantry clashes were also reported in the thickly settled delta, South Vietnam’s principal rice‐growing area. There was shelling also within six miles of Saigon, with Communist gunners pouring 60 rounds of rocket and mortar fire into a fuel depot at Nhà Bè. Six persons were wounded, but damage to the installation, was minor. Nhà Bè has been shelled repeatedly in the last two years, but this was the first time it had been a target since large sections of South Vietnam were abandoned to the Communists in the last few weeks.
A gain for Saigon Government troops, meanwhile, was reported from the Tây Ninh area, from which a North Vietnamese division recently moved southward to the Mekong Delta. The Saigon command said its troops had recaptured an outpost that had fallen March 17 on the southern flanks of Tây Ninh, 45 miles northwest of Saigon.
Military sources said most of the shelling in the Mekong Delta was in Định Tường Province. Fifty civilians were said to have been wounded. Reports from the field said the Communist forces had shelled a big South Vietnamese air base near Cần Thơ, 80 miles south of Saigon. Minh Đức, a district capital 29 miles north of Cần Thơ, reportedly came under repeated attacks. There were no reports of any major moves on Saigon, but military commanders in the capital area were preparing their defenses.
Vast refugee problems continued to trouble the authorities. The South Vietnamese Government’s Welfare Minister told newsmen that were more than 600,000 refugees as a result of the Communist offensive, and said that efforts were being made to resettle them in areas east and south of Saigon and on Phú Quốc Island off the west coast.
The North Vietnamese Air Force is moving south to join the overwhelmingly strong ground forces being assembled by Hanoi’s high command in the critical battle area around Saigon. The North’s tactics, United States military sources said, are following the classic pattern of heavy concentration at a key point either to insure a military victory or to force a political capitulation. The North Vietnamese Air Force was reported today to be moving into airfields at Pleiku, Đà Nẵng and Huế that were abandoned by Saigon’s forces in the first two weeks of the current drive. As a result of this move, American sources said, in any protracted battle for Saigon the northern attackers could call on fighter‐bombers and light bombers to bombard defensive positions.
There are approximately 250 aircraft in the North Vietnamese Air Force. The planes being sent south, it is assumed, are fighter‐bombers and light bombers, MIG‐17’s and IL‐28’s, Most of the North’s 65 MIG‐21 interceptors are likely to be left above the border to protect targets there against any possible attack by short‐range South Vietnamese aircraft. Meanwhile, overwhelmingly strong ground forces are being concentrated in the critical battle area around Saigon. Intelligence analysts estimate that the North already has 60,000 regular troops in the capital area, an advantage of roughly 2 to 1 over the defending troops.
Military sources note that Soviet tactical doctrine, which has guided the North Vietnamese offensive, requires a 3‐to‐1 advantage in manpower for a successful offensive except in exceptional cases. They said that the North might delay opening a major attack until it was confident that it had attained that margin of superiority. The southward movement of North Vietnamese divisions is continuing methodically. As far as can be seen, Washington sources said, no air strikes have been mounted by the South Vietnamese Air Force to interrupt this movement, which is proceeding over the main military highways.
Reports from Saigon reaching Washington indicated that the North intends to accumulate sufficient forces for a full‐scale attack on the capital. Helicopters and fighter aircraft, not used up to this point, are being ferried into Đà Nẵng and Huế and divisional headquarters are being moved southward to the rim of the Saigon sector. The North’s tactics thus reflect Soviet military doctrine, which calls for the massing of overwhelming forces against a major objective, including artillery sufficient to blow a hole in any defensive perimeter.
An informal conference in Washington organized by a congressman in the hope of speeding the airlift of South Vietnamese children was jarred by charges of elitism and racism. A Vietnamese woman who said she had been involved in refugee aid accused many of the 250 people at the meeting of being on a “guilt trip” for supporting the airlift and argued that the babies should be given American-financed foster care in Vietnam instead. Several blacks in the predominantly white meeting challenged the notion that half-black, half-Vietnamese children would be better off in the United States than in Indochina.
The reversals suffered by Saigon Government forces have prompted calls in Australia for a reappraisal of defense planning and the extent to which the country can rely on the United States for military aid. The slate of Australia’s defenses and the future direction of her foreign policy are expected to become political issues over the next few months, The opposition Liberal Party has already accused the Labor Government of neglect in the field of defense. Strategic thinking since the nineteen‐fifties has revolved around an expectation, that the United States could be relied upon to come to Australia’s assistance in the event of an attack on Australian territory, under the terms of a security treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States. But the spectacle of an embattled Saigon Government standing alone has diminished American dependability in the eyes of Australian strategists. At the same time, the swift collapse of the Saigon Government forces has reinforced concern over the state of Australia’s defenses.
Phnom Penh’s defense perimeter shrank again as insurgents overran some outposts four miles north of Pochentong Airport and attacked the airport with nearly 40 rockets and artillery shells. One Cambodian air force plane was destroyed on the ground and a fuel truck was blown up. But the American airlift of food, fuel and ammunition that is keeping the government alive continued. Beyond the threat to the airport, there were large gaps in the government defense lines around the city, and many of the troops being rushed to the fronts were poorly trained.
No rockets fell on Phnom Penh itself today, the fourth day of respite from such attacks, and some military, sources said this might mean that the insurgents were saving their ammunition for a major attack. There were indications that the rebels were bringing up reserves for such an assault. The insurgents at several points around Phnom Penh are less than 10 miles from the city’s center and thus within easy rocket or artillery range. Further insurgent gains were reported from the isolated city of Kompong Speu, 32 miles to the southwest. Rebel troops penetrated the city, which is swollen with refugees, and fighting was reported continuing in the streets, with the situation described as grave.
As the Government’s military prospects deteriorated, a general at his command post a few miles from Phnom Penh talked painfully about the strong likelihood of the imminent collapse of his Government and its army after five years of war. “If Congress gives us no aid, we are finished,” the general, who asked that his name not be used, said of the deliberations going on in Washington. On his desk stood two miniature flags, one Cambodian, the other American. The general said that he felt the rejection of more military aid for Cambodia by the Ameri can Congress was “almost certain,” and he added, with a shrug: “If we do not have the means to fight, what can we do? I accept the law of the vanquished.”
A sharply different view was given — on the record — by the Acting President, Saukam Khoy. “If we do not get aid, we will find another solution,” he said. “We will resist until we have victory.” Vowing that there would be “no surrender,” he said he thought that the Communist-led Cambodian insurgents were too weak to break into the city, But if they do, he said, “We will stand on the top floors of houses and fire down on them and kill them all.” He also said that the insurgent troops were peasant boys and therefore “don’t know how to find their way in the city.” “We will kill their leaders and then they will get lost,” he added. Mr. Saukam Khoy is a 60‐year‐old lieutenant general who, as president of the Cambodian Senate, became Acting President of the nation when Marshal Lon Nol left the country last Tuesday.
Speaking of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, whom Marshal Lon Nol overthrew in 1970 and who is now the nominal leader of the insurgents, living in exile in Peking, Mr. Saukam Khoy said the prince “was very popular among the people.” The Acting President said he himself had not participated in the prince’s overthrow, adding, “I have never betrayed a boss or a friend.” Reminded that Prince Sihanouk two days ago called him a “bandit” with whom the insurgents would never negotiate, the Acting President smiled and said he didn’t take the Prince’s remark seriously.”
But mostly the Cambodian official, who has no political following, talked of driving out the insurgents should they enter the streets of Phnom Penh. “Phnom Penh has two‐million people,” he said. “If we have to, we can mobilize a hundred thousand to fight — students, workers, other young men. We are already getting many volunteers. The civilians are turning in their private weapons under our new order, and we will distribute them properly to the people.”
Cambodia’s acting President, Saukam Khoy, said in an interview published in Le Monde today that conditional surrender of the Government he now heads in Phnom Penh could not be prevented “if the majority of the people so wished.” Mr. Saukam Khoy said that his preference would be for a cease‐fire leading to negotiations “with a view to a sharing of power”, with the insurgents “in an orderly manner so as to protect the people.” But he immediately conceded that chances for this solution were poor. He was quoted as having said that he saw no possibility for members of his administration to enter into contact with the insurgents. He added that he found it “logical” for the rebels, “who are stronger, to put up harsh conditions.” Without quoting Mr. Saukam Khoy’s exact words, the interviewer said that the interim President gave the impression that he favored still another solution. This, the Le Monde reporter said, was a proposal circulating in Phnom Penh for Parliament to re‐establish the monarchy and call Prince Sihanouk back to power.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Long Boret met with representatives of the Khmer Rouge while in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to Cambodia the next day, refused to leave when officials were offered a chance to escape, and was executed nine days later by the new regime.
The Soviet Union’s balance of trade with the West swung into a surplus last year after years of deficits. The surplus resulted from much higher prices for oil, gold and other Soviet exports, a study by the Central intelligence Agency has concluded. The surplus is expected to continue for the rest of this decade, and the Soviet Union is expected to be able to pay for a much larger volume of imports from the West without having to rely on credit.
Turkey has protested to some Western powers, including Britain, that Greece is moving large numbers of troops and heavy military equipment to the Dodecanese Islands off the Turkish coast, sources in Ankara reported. Britain is one of the signatories of the 1923 Lausanne accord and the 1947 Paris agreement demilitarizing the islands.
Greece and the United States opened talks in Athens on the future of American military bases in the country amid speculation that the discussions may pave the way for Greece to return to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s military structure. Greek forces were withdrawn from NATO last summer after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. The bases are operated under bilateral agreements but come under the NATO umbrella.
The idea that Portugal is under political and economic siege and will have to count largely on herself to solve her economic problems has become a major theme here following acceleration of the country’s leftward course in recent weeks. A new High Council of the Revolution and a new provisional government in which Communists and their sympathizers have influential roles have set the country on the road to socialism and the leftist Premier, Vasco des Santos Gongalves, has decreed “total austerity” to attain it. Officially, the government supports civil liberties, the existence of political parties, free elections and continuation of Portugal’s commitments to the North Atlantic Alliance.
The Soviet secret police have barred Jewish activist Mark Azbel from Moscow indefinitely even though he is a legal resident of the capital, Jewish sources reported. Azbel, a 43-year-old physicist, left Moscow for a visit in the western Ukrainian city of Chernovisty. He told friends that when he went to the railroad station there to pick up tick’ets for Moscow he was hustled out of the station by KGB agents and told he could not return to Moscow for an indefinite period.
The militant Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army announced that its nine-week-old ceasefire in Northern Ireland would continue but it would take action against “truce breakers.” A statement issued in Dublin said new orders were going out to IRA units in the wake of fighting that has claimed 11 lives and left more than 80 persons injured in the Belfast area in three days. Operations of IRA units will be governed by the “level of violence and hostile activity of crown forces and sectarian forces,” the statement said.
A preliminary meeting in Paris on world economic crisis between oil-exporting, oil-importing, and non-oil Third World countries is held.
Israel commemorated the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis at a Jerusalem gathering marking the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto revolt in 1943. “On this day we face the entire world,” Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, “standing proud and confident enough to say, holocaust — Never Again.”
The Palestinians moved to patch up their differences with Egypt while Israeli officials accused the United States of “low-key” pressure tactics. Former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban said the situation between Israel and the United States was “more serious than realized.” In Egypt, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat conferred with President Anwar Sadat and other government leaders.
Israel and Egypt have informed the United States of their interests in a new American mediation effort, but so far neither side has shown any readiness for concessions to break the impasse that led to the collapse of Secretary of State Kissinger’s last mission.
The Soviet Union gave the first public indication today that it was working toward a resumption of the Geneva conference. Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met with the Egyptian Ambassador, Mohammed Hafez Ismail, and they discussed the resumption of the Geneva talks and Soviet‐Egyptian relations, according to Tass, the press agency. The Soviet Union has barely noted that Egypt has asked Moscow and Washington to reconvene the Geneva talks. There has ben no Soviet comment on published reports that the Kremlin has told the Egyptians that more time for consultations was needed.
Two Iraqis who commandeered an Iraqi jetliner with 93 persons aboard and forced the pilot to fly to Iran were executed today. It was the first known execution of plane hijackers.
Morarji R. Desai, former Deputy Prime Minister and now a stanch opponent of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, began a hunger strike today to press for early elections in his home state. Elections for the state assembly in his western coastal state of Gujarat have been put off for more than a year—since the assembly was dissolved in the face of student agitation against corruption. Mr. Desai, who is the leader of the so-called Old Congress party, has accused Mrs. Gandhi of postponing the elections with the intention of denying democratic rights to the people. The state is now being administered directly by New Delhi. The 80‐year‐old Gandhian leader, known for his Spartan habits, began his fast at his residence downtown here. Scores of admirers joined in a prayer composed of verses from Hindu scriptures, the Koran and the Bible.
The state funeral for Republic of China (Taiwan) President Chiang Kai‐shek, who died Saturday night at the age of 87, will be held on April 16. The government announced that the President’s body would be interred “temporarily” in a tomb by a lake, an hour’s drive from Taipei. A spokesman said that the body “will be moved back to the mainland when we recover the mainland from the Communists.”The spokesman also said that the funeral service, 11 days after Generalissimo Chiang’s death, would consist of a Christian service of the late President’s adopted religion, a family service in the Chinese tradition and a public service with full military honors and with dignitaries attending.
The Mexican federal attorney general’s office said it was holding three alleged members of a Marxist organization that reportedly sent classified information out of the country. The three men, the office said, belonged to the Mexican section of the “Latin American Labor Committee,” which is attached to the National Organization of Labor Committees headquartered in New York. The group has claimed that two of the men, Carlos Arturo de Hoyos Perez and Jose Carlos Mendez Trujillo, were kidnapped.
The Russians have built a complex in Somalia on the west coast of Africa that enables them to service missiles aboard warships in the Indian Ocean, according to intelligence sources in Washington. The missile support facility is the latest addition to a Soviet base at Berbera, which is strategically located in relation to the oil-rich Persian Gulf nations, the sources said.
Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere called for the continued isolation of South Africa today, but offered Africa’s backing in any negotiations between southern African liberation movements and white‐minority governments. The president spoke at the opening of a special session of the Organization of African Unity to discuss the situation in South Africa.
A pilot plant for the enrichment of uranium has gone into operation in South Africa. Disclosing this in Parliament today, Prime Minister John Vorster said it would enable the country to proceed with the production of enriched uranium for commercial purposes. South Africa and South‐West Africa have about 26 percent of the Western world’s uranium, reserves, second only to the reserves in the United States. Enriched uranium is the fuel used by over 85 percent of the world’s nuclear power stations and its importance is increasing with the rapid growth of world energy needs.
President Ford ended his Easter vacation in Palm Springs, California, with an address, on his way to Washington, to a meeting of the National Association or Broadcasters in Las Vegas, in which he urged Americans not to give in to self-doubt or “paralysis of willpower.” Mr. Ford and his administration were anticipating difficult days ahead in sustaining national, foreign and domestic policies.
On their first day back from the Easter recess, Senate Democrats rebuffed what they took to be suggestions from President Ford that Congress could be held responsible for the deteriorating situation in Southeast Asia. Senator Mike Mansfield, the Democratic leader, opened the session with a conciliatory speech and said that there was enough blame to go around. Nevertheless, several senior Democrats used harsh language to rebut Mr. Ford and to emphasize their opposition to further military aid for South Vietnam and Cambodia.
Treasury Secretary William E. Simon said. “We are confident that the recession will bottom out during the middle months of the year, and by the end of 1975, we will definitely be on the road to recovery. But he warned against killing the nation with attempts to cure its economic ills “Even though the problems of unemployment and inflation are especially painful, evidence is gathering on every side that the economy is shifting gears from recession to recovery, he told a meeting in New Orleans of the American Newspaper Publishers Assn.
The four Cuban-Americans arrested in the Watergate burglary asked the Supreme Court to hear their appeal for an opportunity to withdraw their guilty pleas. They asked for a review of a February 25 decision of a federal appeals court which described the Four as “the foot soldiers of the Watergate break-in” but refused to permit them to change their pleas to innocent. The four are Bernard L. Barker. Eugenio R. Martinez, Frank A. Sturgis and Virgilio R. Gonzales. Barker was sentenced to 18 months to six years and the others to one to four years. Barker is free pending appeal. The others have been paroled after serving about a year.
Jake Jacobsen, a former dairy industry lawyer and the principal prosecution witness in the bribery trial of John Connally, a former Secretary of the Treasury, conceded under cross-examination that he was uncertain whether he had given Mr. Connally $10,000 or $15,000 in alleged payoffs in 1971. He testified last week that he twice had given Mr. Connally $5,000 in illegal gratuities in return for help in increasing federal milk-price supports.
Defective cardiac pacemakers have been associated with at least 26 deaths of heart patients over the last three years, said Caspar W. Weinberger, secretary of health, education and welfare. Eight of the deaths were attributed to implanted pacemaker failures, he said, and 18 other deaths gleaned from company files are under investigation. Weinberger’s 11-page letter was delivered to Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Connecticut), chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee, who had asked for Administration comment on a recent critical General Accounting Office report.
The Agriculture Department is being checked for possible vice activity, including gambling and drug traffic, officials said. Joseph R. Wright Jr., assistant secretary for administration. said department investigators had looked into the reports and turned preliminary findings over to the District of Columbia police. The police department had no comment. But other sources, asking not to be identified, said the reported gambling and drug trafficking might have included both USDA employees and others outside the department. Sources said they doubted the activities were organized or on a large scale.
The head of the Internal Revenue Service said today that there was need for an outside investigation of allegations of corruption and improper activities by the tax agency.
William E. Colby, the Director of Central Intelligence, said today that the Central Intelligence Agency was being jeopardized by sensational and unjustified headlines. He told a group of American newspaper publishers that his agency and its service to the country were being endangered “by its status as the nation’s No. 1 sensational lead” in newspaper articles. In his view, he indicated, the C.I.A. is too often used to give sensation to the lead, or opening, of a news article even when the agency is not a major part of the article.
McGeorge, Bundy, President Kennedy’s aide for national security affairs, said today that he had told the Rockefeller Commission that he had “no recollection” of plots to assassinate foreign leaders or of formal discussions of such plans during his White House tenure. Mr. Bundy, in a brief meeting with reporters after a closed‐door session with members of the commission, which is investigating the Central Intelligence Agency, said he could not exclude informal discussion in which White House aides “sat around and said how nice it would he if this or that leader of government did not exist.” This was the only area of his testimony that Mr. Bundy discussed.
Four civilian counselors at the Tennessee State Prison in Nashville were held hostage for about nine hours by a small group of inmates armed with homemade knives and clubs before being released unharmed. Leaders of the revolt blamed harassment by guards and a lack of understanding by the prison administration for their actions. Prison officials agreed to set up a board to look into a list of 12 inmate demands. But Corrections Commissioner Herman Yeatman said the only firm commitment made was that the rebelling prisoners would not be prosecuted.
Malcolm Bell, a key member of the Attica special prosecutor’s office, has resigned and charged the chief prosecutor, Anthony Simonetti, with covering up possible crimes by law enforcement officers who put down the rebellion at Attica prison in September, 1971. Mr. Bell, who had been Mr. Simonetti’s chief assistant, said the investigation of any crimes by state troopers and correction officers “lacks integrity” and was being “aborted” by Mr. Simonetti.
Susan Edith Saxe, former Brandeis University honor student who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s “10 most wanted list,” pleaded not guilty today to Federal bank robbery charges. Miss Saxe, 26 years old, of Albany was arrested in Philadelphia 11 days ago. She entered her plea today to five counts stemming from a $6,240 holdup of the Bell Federal Savings and Loan Association office here on September 1, 1970. After she entered her plea, United States Magistrate Tullio G. Leomporra set April 22 as the deadline for pre‐trial motions and set the trial date for May 12 before Judge Alfred L. Luongo in Federal District Court.
More than 2 million acres of Southern farmland were under water or threatened and the flooding Mississippi River crept relentlessly across thousands of acres more. To the north, an intensifying spring storm raised warnings from Montana eastward. Tornado watches were up for the High Plains to the Texas Panhandle. At Memphis, the Mississippi reached a crest of more than six feet above flood stage but the city. protected by high bluffs, was in no danger. The water was expected to rise several more feet before it crests Saturday at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
About 30 percent of the young doctors studying medicine 10 years from now will be women, up from the present figure of 18 percent, according to a survey of the deans of American medical schools.
Vitamin C tablets kept for a year degrade into harmful substances, a biochemist told a meeting in Philadelphia of the American Chemical Society. “Vitamin C is stable in the pure state,” said LJ. Wilk of the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. But the potency is cut in half and it breaks down into several chemical compounds, some suspected of forming kidney stones, once a container has been opened and use exposes the pills to air, he said. Vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, has been recommended for the common cold by Nobel Prize-winner Linus Pauling”
Beverly Sills, the most famous of American opera singers of her day, made her first appearance at “The Met.”
Major League Baseball:
Opening Day.
The Big Red Machine opens against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Cincinnati and goes 14 innings before the Reds’ George Foster’s infield hit scores Cesar Geronimo with the winner, 2–1. Pat Darcy is the winner over Charlie Hough.
Setting the baseball fashion world on its ear, the Houston Astros introduce the rainbow uniform to major league baseball, humbling the Atlanta Braves in a 6-2 season opener. Jose Cruz homers in his first game as an Astro.
Kansas City Royals 2, California Angels 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 6
Montreal Expos 8, St. Louis Cardinals 4
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Ronde Barber, NFL cornerback and safety (Hall of Fame, inducted 2023; NFL Champions, Super Bowl 37-Buccaneers, 2002; Pro Bowl, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008; Tampa Bay Buccaneers), one of identical twins, in Roanoke, Virginia.
Tiki Barber, NFL running back (Pro Bowl, 2004, 2005, 2006; New York Giants), one of identical twins, in Roanoke, Virginia.
Ronnie Belliard, MLB second baseman, third baseman, and first baseman (World Series Champions-Cardinals, 2006; All-Star, 2004; Milwaukee Brewers, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Nationals, Los Angeles Dodgers), in New York, New York.
Eric Manlow, Canadian NHL centre (Boston Bruins, New York Islanders), in Belleville, Ontario, Canada.
John Cooper, American contemporary Christian rock musician (Skillet), in Memphis, Tennessee.
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