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* 1975 – Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon.
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* 1975 – The Governor of Portuguese Timor abandons its capital, Dili, and flees to Atauro Island, leaving control to a rebel group.
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Andronikos is the main protagonist in Michael Arnold's Against the Fall of Night ( Garden City, New York: Doubleday 1975 ), as well as Ange Vlachos ' Their Most Serene Majesties ( Vanguard Press, 1964 ).
In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's " Heart of Darkness ", saying the novella de-humanized Africans, denied them language and culture and reduced them to a metaphorical extension of the dark and dangerous jungle into which the Europeans venture.
< imagemap > File: 1970s decade montage. png | From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974 ; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 ; The 1973 oil crisis puts the nation of America in gridlock ; Both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978 ; The 1970 Bhola cyclone kills an estimated 500, 000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan in November 1970 ; The Iranian Revolution of 1979 transformed Iran from an autocratic pro-western monarchy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ; The popularity of the disco music genre peaked during the middle to late 1970s .| 420px | thumb
Aside from journalism, Kelly has written books describing political developments starting with The Unmaking of Gough ( 1976 ) on the Australian constitutional crisis of 1975 and Prime Minister Gough Whitlam ( later titled The Dismissal: Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle: The Dramatic Fall of Gough Whitlam ).
# " Velvet Goldmine " ( single B-side from the 1975 RCA re-release of " Space Oddity ; original recording from the The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars sessions, 1971 ) – 3: 09
* George W. Petrie Jr., Major, United States Army ( Retired ), a Green Beret, first man on the ground on the Son Tay Raid to rescue prisoners of war held in North Vietnam in 1970 ; Caldwell County's most decorated soldier of the Vietnam war ; planned and coordinated the Evacuation of Saigon, last U. S. Army Special Forces Officer to leave South Vietnam during the Fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975 ; two time recipient of the Silver Star.
Following the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the South Vietnam briefly came under the authority of a Provisional Revolutionary Government, a puppet state under military occupation by North Vietnam, before being officially reunified with the North under Communist rule as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on July 2, 1976.
In April 1975 at " Dreamland ", a sleazy Vietnamese club, shortly before the Fall of Saigon, it is Kim's first day as a bargirl.
Jackson Mac Low played Oliveros at the New York Philharmonic's " A Celebration of Women composers " concert on November 10, 1975 and Oliveros has played Mac Low ( see Mac Low's " being Pauline: narrative of a substitution ", Big Deal, Fall 1976 ).
* Anna Novakov, “ Point of Access: Marina Abramović ’ s 1975 Performance Role Exchange ,” Woman ’ s Art Journal Fall 2003 / Winter 2004: 31 – 35.
In the 1975 Fall Classic, which Boston lost to the Cincinnati Reds, Petrocelli hit. 308 with four RBI and three runs, and played errorless defense.
On the same day, the first American airline, United Airlines, lands in Ho Chi Minh City, which makes it the first US airline to land there since Operation Frequent Wind during the Fall of Saigon in April 1975.
Many of Coyote's stories from the 1967 to 1975 counter-culture period are included in his memoir, Sleeping Where I Fall, published by Counterpoint Press in April 1998.
Snepp, in his capacity as a CIA analyst, was on hand for the Fall of Saigon and was one of the last Americans to leave the US Embassy, Saigon before the city fell to the North Vietnamese on April 30, 1975.
Holland recorded several important albums with Braxton – including " New York, Fall 1974 " ( 1974 ) and " Five Pieces ( 1975 )" – that were released on Arista Records.
In a sense, his thought is a secular version of Fall and Redemption, adapted to an evolutionary progressivism – an " optimistic theory of original sin and its consequences ", in the words of Paul Bénichou, who has written extensively on Ballanche's historical importance in Le Sacre de l ' écrivain ( 1973 ), Le Temps des prophètes ( 1977 ) and " Le Grand Œuvre de Ballanche ", Revue d ' histoire littéraire de la France ( Sept .- Oct. 1975 ), collected in Variétés critiques ( 1996 ).
Some of the more notable include " City of God " ( 1981 ), " Only This I Want " ( 1981 ), " Blest Be the Lord " ( 1976 ), " You Are Near " ( 1971 ), " Though the Mountains May Fall " ( 1975 ), " Sing a New Song " ( 1972 ), " Glory and Praise to Our God " ( 1976 ) " Table of Plenty " ( 1992 ) and " These Alone Are Enough " ( 2004 ).
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