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25 YEARS AGO
April 30, 2000 — WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Interior has dropped earlier objections to a bill giving 50,000 acres to the Elim Village Corp., clearing the way for the settlement of a 70-year-old dispute over the village’s former reservation lands.
On April 14 Congress voted to give 50,000 acres to the Elim corporation to compensate for what the village considers a questionable land raid in 1929. Marilyn Heiman, the Interior department’s top Alaska official, objected not only to the land grant but also to several unrelated provisions in draft versions of the bill when giving testimony last fall. She said Tuesday that Congress had made significant changes to the bill during the review process, and the department is recommending that President Clinton sign the legislation.
Elim, a community of about 300 people 100 miles east of Nome, is one of just a few villages in Alaska that were granted reservations by the federal government in the first half of the century.
50 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1975 — SAIGON — The Saigon government surrendered unconditionally today and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops occupied the capital. At first the South Vietnamese stood in doorways and watched the troops pour into the city, then some began cheering.
Many former government soldiers turned in their arms and tried to lose themselves amid the civilian population. But there were periodic outbursts of gunfire — some from pockets of resistance and others from celebrating Viet Cong and North Vietnamese firing into the air.
A police colonel shot himself In front of the National Assembly building after walking up to an army memorial statue and saluting. He died later in a hospital.
Some South Vietnamese pilots continued today to fly planeloads of relatives and other members of the armed forces to neighboring Thailand. Several thousand South Vietnamese fled the country by this route Tuesday. And U.S. officials struggled with the logistics of resettling the estimated 45,000 South Vietnamese it helped evacuate from the country before the surrender. The end of official American presence in the country came late Tuesday.
People in Hanoi raced into the streets and embraced each other in a “a genera) explosion of joy,” the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported. Flags were raised, and the North Vietnamese-i capital “became the noisiest and happiest city In the world.”
75 YEARS AGO
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100 YEARS AGO
April 30, 1925 — JUNEAU — The Senate completed initial consideration of the taxation measure and found little change to make, the only amendment suggested being the restoration of the present schedule on bakeries which was eliminated in the House. The Senate will resume study of the measure tomorrow, at which time the general appropriations measure is expected to he taken up Both Houses are cleaning up the little bills and clearing the way for adjournment Thursday night.
There seems little likelihood of a last minute jam. Governor Bone returned House Bill No. 58 with a veto message saying that the measure was too vague and loosely drawn and was in effect a vote for a “direct bonus’’ to the Nome Telephone company. The House sustained the veto by a unanimous vote, and Nylon introduced a new measure to cure the defects of the vetoed bill, which the House passed without delay.