
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, March 15, 1990                   TAG: 9003152176
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.                                 LENGTH: Short

LAST AMBASSADOR TO S. VIETNAM DIES

Graham A. Martin, who as the United States' last ambassador to South Vietnam coordinated the chaotic airlift of Saigon in 1975, has died of complications from emphysema.

He was 78.

Martin, a North Carolina native who had lived in Winston-Salem since 1976, died Tuesday at Forsyth Memorial Hospital.

In April 1975, Martin was in charge of the helicopter airlift from the U.S. Embassy compound that ferried the remaining Americans and about 140,000 Vietnamese to the 7th Fleet in the South China Sea while the city fell to the invading North Vietnamese.

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