He, Vogle and and UPI staffer Bert Okuley decided to evacuate. to decide who wanted to try to make it off the embassy roof and who wanted to stay," he said in a recent interview. Late on the 29th, he, too, was at the embassy gates. Ken Englade was a UPI field reporter from the Saigon bureau who worked seven days a week for three weeks at a time in the northern part of South Vietnam. He was interrogated and beaten up and finally had to flee a few years later by boat." "He was convinced that the Communists would do him no harm because he was relatively poor. "Fortunately, I was able to get several Vietnamese out, but I was unable to persuade my old interpreter to leave," said Southerland, who is now an executive editor with Radio Free Asia. RELATED UPI Archives: News highlights from 1975
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