page_title: Timeline of the Gerald Ford presidency (1975)
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of the Gerald Ford presidency (1975) / May
caption_attribution_description: English: President Gerald R. Ford watches ASTP crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton and Valeriy N. Kubasov on television as he talks to them via radio-telephone while they orbited the Earth on July 18, 1975. The American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft were docked.
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the Presidency of Gerald Ford from January 1, 1975, to December 31, 1975.
context_section_description: May 12–15 – When Cambodia seizes the American container ship SS Mayaguez in international waters, Ford orders U.S. Marines to rescue the ship's crew. The civilians are safely recovered and a long hostage crisis averted, but many Marines die. This was the last official battle of the Vietnam War. The names of the Americans killed, as well as those of three Marines who were left behind on the island of Koh Tang after the battle and were subsequently executed by the Khmer Rouge, are the last names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
  May 23 – Ford signs the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act, allowing refugees from South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia to enter the United States under a special status.
  May 28 – June 3 – Ford makes the fourth international trip of his presidency:
  May 28–31 – Travels to Brussels, Belgium;  attends the NATO Summit Meeting, addresses the North Atlantic Council and meets separately with NATO heads of state and government.
  May 31 – June 1 – Travels to Madrid, Spain; meets with Generalissimo Francisco Franco, and receives the keys to the city of Madrid from mayor Miguel Angel García-Lomas Mata.
caption: President Ford speaks to the Soviet and American Apollo–Soyuz Test Project crews, July 18, 1975
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