The ARVN 18th Division in Xuân Lộc begins battling two North Vietnamese divisions at the last South Vietnamese defense line before Saigon; it will become the last battle in defense of the Republic of South Vietnam. During the first week a regiment of the ARVN 5th Division and an airborne brigade arrive as reinforcements, while two more North Vietnamese divisions arrive to join the attackers. The ARVN forces are well dug in, and manage to hold out against the attackers until they run out of tactical air support and weapons, finally abandoning Xuân Lộc to the Communists on 21 April.
Two North Vietnamese divisions began an offensive in the upper Mekong Delta apparently aimed at cutting the highway link between Saigon and its sources of food further south. A Saigon military spokesman said the Communist troops had fired over 1,000 mortar and artillery shells and assaulted several Government positions near Mộc Hóa, the small capital of Kiến Phong Province. Mộc Hóa, long a favorite Communist target, lies in the watery Plain of Reeds 50 miles west of Saigon. Western intelligence officials said they believed the attacks were part of a new Communist drive to cut Route 4, along which the delta’s rice, fruit and vegetables are transported to Saigon. All roads to Saigon from the north have already been cut in the Communists’ month‐old offensive, in which they have seized two‐thirds or more of the country. Government armor was said to be in place to defend the link.
This morning travelers trying to return to Saigon from the south over Route 4 reported that the Communists had at least temporarily cut the road in southern Long An Province about 15 miles from the capital. Other travelers reported yesterday that government army units, including tanks and armored personnel carriers, had been stationed in large numbers along the highway in Định Tường Province farther south. The new fighting near Mộc Hóa, which blocks the North Vietnamese troops’ path to Route 4, coincides with a third day of intensified attacks elsewhere in the delta. There has been no collapse by the South Vietnamese in the delta similar to the one that occurred in the northern and central provinces.
In action along the central coast, a government spokesman, using a euphemism that usually means a position has fallen, said this morning that radio contact had been lost with the district town of Thiên Giáo near Phan Thiết city. According to the spokesman, the Communists lost 150 men in an unsuccessful attack on Thiên Giáo, 105 miles northeast of Saigon. A second assault apparently led to the town’s capture.
Communist gunners this morning also fired seven 122‐mm rockets into the provincial capital of Tây Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, hitting the city’s ammunition depot. According to accounts from the scene, the ammunition continued to explode for at least an hour after the attack.
The Saigon command also reported an upsurge in commando actions in the immediate vicinity of Saigon. Western analysts said that the actions were not militarily significant in themselves but that they appeared to signal what might be a renewed Communist drive in the region around the capital after almost a week of lull. At 3 AM yesterday, the Saigon command said, Communist gunners fired 40 mortar rounds into Long Thành, a district capital in Biên Hòa Province near the large former United States Long Bình army base. Simultaneously, North Vietnamese commandos attacked nearby government armored cavalry school, an infantry school and another unspecified military installation. Twelve Communists were reported killed in the first assault, with the loss of five South Vietnamese dead and 28 wounded. Communist saboteurs also reportedly blew up a small bridge on a local road near Thủ Đức, only five miles from Saigon.
In other developments, a spokesman for the Saigon command reported that South Vietnamese planes had attacked Communist troops near the south‐central coastal cities of Cam Ranh, Phan Rang and Phan Thiết. He asserted that the raids had resulted in the killing of 125 Communists. These cities had officially been reported lost to the Communists last week, but after several days of confusion it became clear that some Saigon troops were still there and that at least a few also remained in a fourth coastal city, Nha Trang.
Western analysts, in speaking of the Communist attacks around Mộc Hóa in the upper delta, said they were particularly noteworthy because they were carried out by the North Vietnamese Fifth Division and part of the Third. Until a few days ago these two Communist units had been in Tây Ninh Province northwest of Saigon. Their shift, the analysts said, suggested a shift in Communist strategy, to isolate Saigon from the south and the delta rather than hitting it from the west.
United States military analysts believe that the North Vietnamese command has recovered from its surprise over the speed of the southern pullback and that a major effort against Saigon will end the war. South Vietnamese intelligence reports, relayed to Washington, say that a major drive against the capital is imminent. American sources are not so certain. They believe that Hanoi is preparing for either of two situations.
The first, and from the North’s standpoint the most economic, is an encirclement of Saigon, followed by shelling and rocketing and by commando raids into the outer city. Hanoi may believe that such tactics would bring down the Government of President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and lead to capitulation. “They may give those tactics a try for three or four days, even a week,” one officer said. “They don’t lose much and, if Thiệu is kicked out, they probably will get the city virtually intact at bargain prices.” The other situation envisages stiffening resistance by the Saigon Government forces, their reinforcement by troops straggling in from the north and, consequently, a major Communist drive to take the city. Every day sees the Communists massing more artillery and armor in the Saigon region. At the same time, the sources said, operations in the Mekong delta are isolating Saigon from its chief source of rice.
One of the reasons the Communists have been able to pour troops into the Saigon region without effective air interference is an American decision of 1972, the sources said. The United States decided then not to provide Saigon with any long‐range strike aircraft. Consequently there have been no deep strikes against armored and artillery formations moving southward in the last eight days. The decision was based on concern that the Saigon Government might use such planes to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong.
Today, with government territory pared to the Saigon sector and the Mekong Delta, only long‐range aircraft can effectively bomb the Communist forces moving through the northern provinces and along the coast road. Such strikes could be effective, the sources said, because it is believed that most Communist antiaircraft formations have moved south. The F‐5A fighters and the A‐37 fighter‐bombers that represent the attacking power of a sharply reduced Saigon air force are incapable of hitting targets at long range. The air force, the sources said, already has the urgent mission of operating against the forces concentrating in the Saigon area. The government’s prospects for a military recovery sufficient to hold Saigon against a major offensive are believed to depend to a considerable degree upon a revival of the air force.
After a week-long mission to South Vietnam, General Frederick Weyand, U.S. Army Chief of Staff and former Vietnam commander, reports to Congress that South Vietnam cannot survive without additional military aid. Questioned later by reporters, who ask if South Vietnam could survive with additional aid, he replies there is “a chance.” General Weyand has recommended that the United States rush additional aid to re-equip South Vietnam’s regular army and arm its regional forces to defend Saigon, according to Ford administration officials. The general was said to have advised asking Congress for at least $500 million in emergency military aid. He told congressional committees that without additional aid South Vietnam could not survive. Senator Henry Jackson, Democrat of Washington, said he had been reliably informed of secret agreements with South Vietnam envisioning “fateful decisions.” The State Department referred newsmen to Secretary of State Kissinger’s statement on Saturday that the United States had a moral but not a legal commitment to come to South Vietnam’s aid.
President Ford’s chief refugee coordinator suggested at a congressional hearing that 3,000 to 4,000 more Vietnamese children might be airlifted to the United States, but a State Department officer said that that many could not be processed in the two remaining days of the emergency airlift. George Meany, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., said rescue plans should also include “people who’ve been on our side.”
The airlift of children from South Vietnam, begun last week with a sense of urgency and compassion, has left in its wake bitter argument over whether taking children from their homeland is an appropriate or necessary way to deal with a crisis.
The North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry charged today that the emigration of South Vietnamese adults and children to the United States constituted kidnapping. A communiqué protested against the presence of American warships and civilian freighters carrying marines in South Vietnamese waters as a serious act of sabotage of the Paris peace agreement. The communiqué asserted that the same American planes that carried bombs, ammunition and arms to South Vietnam to “massacre the people and devastate the villages” were being used to kidnap South Vietnamese children to the United States.
In an interview on the CBS Morning News, U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater said that the Vietnam War “would have been over in a month” if he had been elected president in 1964.
Combat slackened on all sides of Phnom Penh’s defense perimeter today, but heavy fighting was reported continuing inside the isolated city of Kompong Speu, 32 miles to the southwest. The Government managed to land helicopters there during the day to ferry in ammunition and carry out wounded. Kompong Speu had formed the western anchor of this besieged capital’s defense perimeter until three weeks ago, when insurgents cut Route 4, the road that links the two cities. Twenty‐eight miles east of Phnom Penh, Prey Veng, an other isolated city, came under, continued rebel shelling.
Meanwhile, Premier Long Boret returned to Phnom Penh just one week after he helped ease President Lon Nol into exile by accompanying him on what was described as an official visit to Indonesia. On his arrival, the Premier laughed when asked about rumors that he had met with Cambodian insurgent representatives during a stopover in Bangkok, Thailand, The Associated Press reported. Mr. Long Boret met a few hours later with the American Ambassador, John Gunther Dean, who heads the only embassy still functioning in Phnom Penh.
Bracing for the expected next round of insurgent attacks in the Phnom Penh area, the Cambodian Army has been attempting to regroup by flying some of its more ragged units out to provincial garrisons to free combat units there for the defense of the capital.
The crucial factor in coming battles here is likely to be the use the insurgents make of the 105‐mm, howitzers they have captured from the Cambodian Army. Used effectively against the capital’s Pochenteng Airport, these guns could force an end of the American airlift that is now Phnom Penh’s only source of supplies. Eighteen rockets hit the airport today, killing one person. Seven other rockets were fired into Phnom Penh, wounding four.
United States members of Congress who oppose further aasistance to the Cambodian Government were praised this afternoon at a news conference held by spokesmen for schoolteachers here. The teachers’ group formally endorsed a call for an end “to all American made earlier by Phnom Penh student associations.
The United States Embassy has entered into negotiations for a possible airlift of 750 Cambodian orphans daily from Phnom Penh, a spokesman said today. The airlift was suggested by two freelance journalists, Denis Cameron and Lee Rudakewych, who said it depended on vhether humanitarian organizations and adoption agencies could be found to accept the orphans.
Energy consumption in Europe and North America could be cut by one-third in 15 years without lowering living standards, the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe said. Among the recommendations in a report to be put before the commission’s next meeting in Geneva on April 15 are more efficient extraction, processing and storage of oil, natural gas and coal; better use of water power; harnessing of waste heat; use of heat from nuclear and conventional power stations to provide domestic heating and hot water and better insulation of houses, offices and other buildings.
Negotiations between representatives of Greek and Turkish Cypriots will resume in Vienna on April 28, a spokesman for U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced in New York. Waldheim is expected to be present at the talks. The time and place of the talks were reported last week. The announcement officially confirmed the report.
Greece denied Turkish allegations that it had moved troops and arms into the Dodecanese Islands, including Rhodes. The islands were ceded to Greece in 1947 with the provision that they remained demilitarized. Turkey reportedly complained privately about the alleged buildup to some Western nations, including Britain, and then made the charge publicly. The public accusation brought the Greek denial.
Austrian army helicopters rescued more than 100 people from isolated mountain chalets as freak weather conditions that caused 16 deaths in Austria eased. The Brenner Pass, the main rail and road link to Italy, and several other roads remained closed and officials warned that the danger of avalanches remained acute in Alpine areas.
Nineteen persons were injured when Amsterdam riot police using tear gas, armored cars and water cannons clashed with hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators who tore up brick roads and wrecked parked cars in the center of the city. The battle began when police forced their way into nine houses barricaded by squatters in the shabby Nieuwmarket district of the old town. The houses are due for demolition to make way for construction of a subway line.
A martial-law court in Istanbul “sentenced five Turkish extremists to jail for up to 30 years for their part in the 1971 kidnaping and murder of Israeli Consul General Ephraim Elrom and the killing of three Western radar technicians in a 1972 gun battle, court sources said. The five, reported to be members of the Turkish People’s Liberation Army, were among 70 defendants whose trial began in 1972.
Michael Tzur, one of Israel’s leading financial officials, was indicted in Tel Aviv for fraud, bribery and breach of trust in international transactions that allegedly diverted millions of dollars intended for development. The complaint centered on Mr. Tzur’s relations with the International Credit Bank of Geneva and its founder, Tibor Pinchas Rosenbaum. He, like Mr. Tzur, is facing criminal charges brought by Baron Edmond de Rothschild of the famous banking family.
Members of the Security Council have agreed privately to a three-month extension of the mandate by United Nations peace-keeping forces separating Egyptian and Israeli troops in Sinai, delegation sources said today. A Security Council session on the issue is likely April 16 or 17.
An administration official said that the Portuguese government had advised Washington that in the event of a new Middle East conflict the United States could not use an air base in the Azores for refueling, as in the 1973 conflict. Lisbon’s new relations with Arab countries were said to be a prime factor.
By deciding to reopen the Suez Canal and by sticking to his policy of trying to negotiate a settlement of the Arab‐Israeli conflict in spite of the absence of a new disengagement agreement, President Anwar el‐Sadat is gaining time to protect his relatively liberal regime at home. Mr. Sadat is also defusing the only real domestic danger that faces him, namely the risk of social unrest due to economic suffering. The President has no organized political opposition. His efforts to find a negotiated settlement with Israel have the support, by and large, of the mass of Egyptians. There is some criticism, expressed privately and mostly by intellectuals, that he went too far at Aswan in trying to meet Israeli demands, and that he continues to put too much trust in the United States. Foreign diplomats feel that his personal standing is high, though not as high as during the October 1973, war, when he seemed a hero.
India’s relations with Bangladesh, her closest ally in the subcontinent, are strained by two disputes over resources. Officials of the two countries have been unable to resolve a controversy over the maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal as well as a long‐standing dispute over sharing the waters of the Ganges River, part of which flows into Bangladesh. Several days of talks on the maritime issue between foreign ministers of the two countries, Kamal Hossain of Bangladesh and Y. B. Chavan of India, ended without agreement last Week.
Armed troops today seized the campus of Korea University, one of the nation’s three largest schools, following the declaration of a state of emergency by President Park Chung Hee. The emergency decree, the seventh such measure taken by the South Korean Government since the start of last year, went into effect almost immediately upon its issuance this afternoon. It forbids any campus rally or demonstration against the government and provides penalties of up to 10 years’ imprisonment for violators. The punishment may be accompanied by suspension of civil rights for the same period.
The permanent burial of President Chiang Kai-shek will be postponed indefinitely until the ceremony can take place on the Chinese mainland he could never reconquer, the Nationalist Chinese government announced. A “solemn and grand” state funeral, however, will be held on April 16 with interment at a temporary site above ground, the Taiwan government said. Despite intermittent rains, meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of mourners continued to stream to Sun Yat-sen’s memorial hall to bow to the memorial altar of their late national leader.
The Philippine Supreme Court tonight halted a military court hearing against an opposition leader who has gone on a hunger strike. It issued an order restraining a military commission temporarily from proceeding with the case of former Senator Benigno S: Aquino, a rival of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mr. Aquino is charged with subversion and murder. This was the first time since the imposition of martial law late in 1972 that a civilian court had restrained a military commission. Mr. Aquino’s chief counsel implied yesterday that a Supreme Court ruling in his favor would end the hunger strike that the former Senator began in prison last Friday.
Former Governor Carlos G. Camacho, former Lieutenant Governor Kurt S. Moylan and nine other former and present Guam government officials have been indicted by the territorial grand jury on a variety of charges, most stemming from alleged abuses at the territory’s commercial port. Charges included embezzlement, falsification of accounts by a public officer and presenting false claims for government funds involving about $3.2 million.
A heavily loaded South African Airways 747 jumbo jet was struck by bullets while landing in Luanda, Angola last night. The big aircraft was hit by at least five bullets, but was able to return to Johannesburg this morning. None of the 287 passengers or the crew was harmed. Portuguese fighter‐bombers and light aircraft patrolled the area today. Portuguese officers said privately that it was possible that the aircraft had been struck by accident. However, the incident was clearly caused by tensions and hatreds among the troops of Angola’s rival black liberation movements, which are sharing power in a coalition government, a transition until full independence in November. Two of the movements, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, began sporadic fighting last month that caused the death of several hundred persons. A third movement, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, has remained aloof from the violence.
A Congressional budget target of $368.2‐billion was approved today by a sharply divided House Budget Committee. Republicans and Democrats accused each other of using false figures during and after the committee meeting, at which the target budget figure was approved by a vote of 13 to 10. The final vote reversed a vote earlier in the day by which the committee rejected the budget target, 13 to 11. The committee’s action was the first step in an effort by Congress to set its own controls over the Federal budget rather than simply act on the President’s requests. The House committee’s $368.2‐billion target, with a $73.2‐billion deficit for the fiscal year beginning July 1, compares with President Ford’s request of $355.6‐billion deficit. The $73.2‐billion deficit is $13.2‐billion more than Mr. Ford says he would accept.
Hundreds of hard-hatted coal miners, fearful a strict new strip mining bill would cost them their jobs, demonstrated at the White House and lobbied congressmen while huge coal trucks circled the Capitol. The caravan from Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee came to protest a bill, now before a Senate House joint committee, that would require the land be restored and pollution cleaned up. White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen could not indicate whether President Ford would veto the bill until final changes are made. But he said Mr. Ford, who vetoed a similar bill last session. “has some concerns about it causing coal prices to rise sharply.
The Senate, pushing toward passage of emergency energy legislation, kept intact a provision to let federal officials order oil pumped faster than states consider feasible. Senate leaders hope to complete action this week on the standby Energy Authorities Act, which would authorize President Ford to ration oil and gasoline and order strong conservation steps in any emergency. Backers of the bill consider the power to order faster production one way to come up with more domestic oil. The measure, however, provides that the interior secretary could not issue such orders without consulting state agencies and puts a 90-day limit on speedups.
The typical urban American family of four requires $14,300 a year to maintain a moderate standard of living, the Labor Department said. That amount, after the worst inflation in 28 years, is $1,733 more than the previous year. At an austere level, the same family could get by on $9,200, or at a level allowing some luxuries, for $20,800, the department said. Adjusted figures for the Los AngelesLong Beach area were $9,524 for the austere budget, $14,068 for the moderate and $20,801 for the highest. The costs, including taxes, were calculated for the fall of 1974.
Food stamp allotments for four-person families will rise automatically to $162, $8 more a month on July 1, Agriculture Department figures indicated today.
The Labor Department said the number of persons receiving unemployment insurance benefits declined during the week ending March 22, but the number of persons receiving extended jobless pay edged up slightly. Through seven programs, more than 6.4 million persons were receiving unemployment pay. Those receiving regular state unemployment benefits declined 81,900 from the previous week, and totaled 5,063,000. A year ago only 2,477,400 were getting state unemployment benefits. The number of jobless workers receiving extended benefits was 635,300, up 33,700 from the previous week.
The House select committee set up in February to investigate intelligence gathering in federal agencies will be seven weeks old tomorrow, and so far it has no staff director and no staff. The seven Democrats and three Republicans who make up the panel have met a few times since they were appointed on February 19, but much of the business they have conducted has been through informal conversations on the House floor and over the telephone. Thus far, the principal topic of their discussions has been the selection of someone fort the combined position of chief committee counsel and staff director. Until that post is filled, the process of selecting staff lawyers and investigators to conduct the committee’s work cannot begin.
Jake Jacobsen, the government’s central witness in the bribery trial of John Connally, conceded that he was uncertain on some details of his account of an alleged $10,000 payoff to the former Treasury Secretary in 1971. As he completed his testimony under cross-examination, he did not budge from the main thread of his payoff accusation. A later witness was Bob A. Lilly, former assistant to the general manager of Associated Milk Producers, Inc. He said that he provided $10,000 from corporate funds after Mr. Jacobsen told him the cooperative was obligated to the defendant for having helped to win an increase in federal milk price supports.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare reported that in the last six months of 1974, national costs of welfare were cut $62 million in the campaign to remove ineligible recipients from the rolls and reduce payment errors. The crackdown on welfare saved federal and state taxpayers $62 million in the last half of 1974 and, at that rate, could save $200 million more in the first half of this year, said James S. Dwight, administrator of the $8 billion-a-year family welfare program in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. But he acknowledged that the original goal of a $514.7 million saving over 12 months could not be met. Dwight said only 10 states had met their interim year-end goals for reducing errors regarding welfare ineligibility, overpayment and underpayment. Although New York accounted for $21.1 million of the “savings”, the state and many others face a curtailment in federal welfare funds later this year unless further improvements are made, the department said.
Traffic fatalities, which declined 17% in 1974, are climbing again as many Americans return to driving patterns to which they were accustomed before last year’s gasoline shortage. The latest National Safety Council statistics for the first two months of this year show a 6% rise from the same two months in 1974. January marked the first monthly increase from the previous year since” October, 1973. If the current increase continues, about 49,000 persons will be killed in traffic accidents this year. In comparison, there were 46,200 in 1974 and 55,800 in 1973.
Governor Carey of New York deferred a decision on a request that he appoint an independent individual or group to investigate the “management and affairs” of the state’s prosecution of crimes arising from the rebellion at Attica prison in September, 1971. The request came from Robert Patterson Jr., attorney for Malcolm Bell, a former member of the Attica prosecution team who has accused the chief prosecutor, Anthony Simonetti, of covering up possible crimes by law enforcement officers at Attica. Mr. Carey instead urged a prompt meeting between Mr. Patterson and State Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz.
Betty Ford turned 57, celebrating the day with a White House dinner party for close friends and attending a performance by singer Pearl Bailey at the Kennedy Center. The First Lady expected calls from her sons, Mike, 25, and Steve, 18, who are away from Washington, and remarked that one of the joys on her birthday was to hear from her children — who, naturally, call collect.
Los Angeles city officials were presented an award for energy conservation by Frank G. Zarb, head of the Federal Energy Administration. The city of Seattle and the Michigan Public Service Commission also received certificates of appreciation as part of an FEA campaign to save energy. Los Angeles was cited for an 18% cut in electricity use during the winter fuel shortage and for current consumption at between 9 and 11% below previous use levels. Accepting the award in Washington were City Councilman Marvin Braude and Burton J. Gindler, president of the Department of Water and Power’s board of commissioners.
A solar heating and cooling demonstration program for both residential and commercial establishments has been submitted to Congress by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The report listed alternative levels of funding for the program. The first level would include 350 residential units and 50 commercial units at an estimated cost of $109 million. The largest proposal calls for 2,000 residences and 400 commercial units at an estimated cost of $306 million.
Josephine Baker danced before a crowd of celebrities at the Bobino Theatre in Paris. Days later, the African-American dancer who had become a beloved citizen of France, had a cerebral hemorrhage and died on April 12 at the age of 68.
Soul singer-composer Isaac Hayes has been ordered to appear in a Memphis court next week to answer charges that he is $5,000 behind in alimony and child support.
At the Academy Awards, Art Carney won Best Actor for “Harry and Tonto,” Ellen Burstyn won Best Actress for “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” and “The Godfather Part II” became the first sequel to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
Major League Baseball:
After Rachel Robinson, widow of Jackie, tosses out the first ball in Cleveland, Frank Robinson, the first black manager in Major League history, adds a dramatic touch by homering in his first Cleveland at bat (as a DH) during a 5–3 win over the visiting Yankees. For player-manager Robinson, it is his 8th Opening Day home run, setting a Major League record. Starter Doc Medich is the loser, going 5 innings and giving up all 5 runs. Gaylord goes all the way to win for the Tribe, while Boog Powell backs him, going 3–for-3 with a double and homer.
In a club house meeting, Boston captain Carl Yastrzemski criticizes his teammates for their poor attitude in spring training when they went 10–20. In the game, the Sox bomb Jim Slaton for 5 runs in 3 innings and defeat Milwaukee, 5–2. Hank Aaron is hitless in his American League debut, while teammate Robin Yount homers. Tony Conigliaro is the Sox DH and is 1–for-4 in his Boston return. Conigliaro, who retired four years ago after being traded to the Angels in 1970, plays in the first game of his attempted comeback with the Red Sox. As a designated hitter, the 30-year-old Pope of Kenmore Square, who will collect only seven hits in 21 games, singles in his first at-bat in Boston’s victory over the Brewers.
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Boston Red Sox 5
New York Yankees 3, Cleveland Indians 5
Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 0
Philadelphia Phillies 1, New York Mets 2
Chicago White Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 3
Minnesota Twins 11, Texas Rangers 4
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Anouk [Schemmekes, née Teeuwe], Dutch rock singer-songwriter (Three Days In a Row), in The Hague, Netherlands.
Timo Pérez, Dominican MLB outfielder (New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Tigers), in Bani, Dominican Republic .
Jeremy Fikac, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, Oakland A’s, Montreal Expos), in Shiner, Texas.
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