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VICE PRESIDENT Spiro T. Agnew returns to San Clemente this week after a palace door-to-palace door selling trip for the Nixon Doctrine in Southeast Asia. If he had to file a salesman's report on his tour through the territory, it might read something like this: "They know they'll have to buy it eventually, but they'd just as soon hold off as long as possible. If they have to take it now, they'd like as many optional features as they can get free. Suggest hard-sell follow...
...seems certain that only future hard bargaining with the countries visited will demonstrate the effectiveness of Agnew's mission abroad, although its value to Agnew is automatic as quotable experience on the campaign hustings this fall. Generally the trip was business-like and low-keyed, with one unadvertised, dramatic stop in Cambodia. In one form or another, all the conversations were about implementing the essential elements of Administration policy: gradual U.S. military withdrawal from Southeast Asia but continuing U.S. aid to those nations that act to help themselves. A stop-by-stop review: SOUTH KOREA: Agnew arrived...
...South Vietnamese election campaign (see WORLD); Thieu's insistence that, to ensure the peace, the U.S. keep a 60,000-man garrison in South Viet Nam even after Vietnamization is complete. CAMBODIA: Protected by U.S. helicopter gunships in the air and by Secret Service men on the ground, Agnew made an unannounced, though scheduled visit to a capital city less than ten miles away from the fighting. His 4-hr. 50-min. stopover in Phnom-Penh was explicity intended to demonstrate, both to the Lon Nol government and the Communists attacking it, that "we are not going to stand...
...town's local maverick is Gregory Joannidi, former head of the local Democratic Club ("all six of us"). Joannidi owns the concessions at the San Clemente Greyhound bus depot, including the clothing store, a cafeteria and assorted pinball games. "These big shots, the President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked...
These dreams of glory are made possible largely by the success of a hardedged, modest movie called Joe (TIME, July 27), an attempt to dramatize the bitter frustrations of Spiro Agnew's hardhats. Made on a starvation budget of $300,000 (even Easy Rider cost $100,000 more), Joe has already grossed that much in New York City box-office revenue alone. "We didn't think it was going to do this well," admits Cannon President Christopher Dewey. Considering their youth and collegiate looks, this is probably the first time that Dewey and his partner, Dennis Friedland...