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...what is happening. Vietnamese stop us while taking notes and ask us to explain the U.S. Congress, when the evacuation is coming, and most poignantly, how they can get onto the passenger list." Following the path of some of those who managed to get out, Hong Kong Correspondent David Aikman flew to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, which was rapidly becoming a sort of Ellis Island for the Vietnamese evacuees...
...successor is a brusque and austere army lieutenant general, Saukam Khoy, 61, who most recently was president of the senate. In an interview with TIME Correspondent David Aikman, Saukam Khoy declared: "I shall go to the soldiers and the people to find out the situation and inspire them with confidence. Do you like horses? Horses have to be spoken to in order to have confidence. If your horse has confidence in you, he will let you mount him. You must caress your horse, calm...
Camcar Mon Palace and is surrounded by toadying sycophants who have encouraged him to hang onto power and shield him from bad news. A dialogue with the President has often assumed a sense of unreality. TIME Correspondent David Aikman reported this recent exchange between Lon Nol and Lieut. General Saukam Khoy, president of Cambodia's Senate and Lon Nol's most likely successor...
...spread, left for Hong Kong, where he became one of the colony's most respected China analysts. When Radio Peking flashed an announcement of the completed People's Congress, both English and Chinese TV camera crews went to Wong's apartment to get his assessment. David Aikman, a Ph.D. candidate in Chinese and Russian history at the University of Washington in Seattle before joining TIME in 1971, has made two trips to the mainland. In a skillful display of Pekingology, Aikman deduced that major events were taking place in the Great Hall of the People from...
...Foochow last February, five Chinese Christians were arrested and paraded in dunce hats through the city streets. The incident was related to TIME Correspondent David Aikman in Hong Kong by two overseas Chinese missionaries who had been visiting the coastal province of Fukien. While such a tale of public humiliation is hardly extraordinary, the reason for it was. The missionaries reported that an underground Chinese Christian community numbering more than 1,200 has grown up in Foochow over the past five years. If the story of the Foochow revival is indeed basically true, it signals that the Christian faith...