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...long ago, after several journalists covering the war in Cambodia had been captured by hostile forces, TIME Correspondent Robert Anson speculated that, come what may, newsmen would still be venturing out into the hazardous Cambodian countryside. In isolated Phnom-Penh, he explained in a cable to New York, reliable information is so hard to come by that even diplomats "would start an interview by asking the correspondent: 'Now what can you tell...
...Anson reported the fight for Saang, the first sizable engagement of the war, and was the first newsman to reach Siem Reap when the Communists were overrunning the temples at nearby Angkor. Anson's and TIME Stringer T.D. Allman's account of the massacre of more than 150 Vietnamese-born civilians in a schoolyard at Takeo last spring exposed the dark side of the government's campaign against the Vietnamese-and helped persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to take steps to prevent future atrocities...
Early last week, Anson cabled that "there are two wars in Cambodia: the visible one of the battlefield, the other the unseen struggle in the countryside." He then drove out of Phnom-Penh heading for the battlefield at Skoun, 45 miles away. The other war stopped Anson short. His white Ford Cortina was found outside of Skoun, its tires flattened by gunfire. Villagers reported that his car had been stopped at an enemy roadblock, and that Anson had been led away, apparently unhurt...
...Anson, whose wife and two children live in Singapore, thus became the 23rd journalist missing in Cambodia, and the second from this magazine. Last April, while on assignment for TIME, Freelance Photographer Sean Flynn was captured near the South Vietnamese border. Late last week, in response to an appeal from Chief of Time-Life News Service Murray Gart, deposed Prince Norodom Sihanouk cabled from Peking that he had asked his supporters in Cambodia "to locate Mr. Anson as well as the other missing reporters and to free them when they have been located...
Losing His Cool. Both men were plainly war weary as they said their goodbyes last week. "I will never be one of those guys who sit around and talk about the good old days in Saigon," Faas told TIME Correspondent Robert Anson. "There were never any good old days in Saigon. People were always getting killed...