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Magic Kerchief TIME Correspondent Robert Anson was the first newsman to enter Siem Reap after the Communist attack was blunted. Some of the fiercest fighting of the two-day battle, he reported, involved a Viet Cong attack on the high school, where more than 200 recently inducted 16-and 17-year-old boys and girls were garrisoned. A Cambodian officer who remained in radio contact with the group throughout a night filled with thundering mortar fire and the clatter of machine guns, said the terrified students cried into the radio "like a baby crying at night for its mother...
...COSVN (Central Office for South Viet Nam) headquarters. Meanwhile, from Phnom-Penh, Veteran Far East Correspondent Louis Kraar cabled an analysis of the political repercussions in the Cambodian capital. South Viet Nam Correspondent Jim Willwerth described the military situation from his side of the line. In Saigon, Bob Anson pieced together a narrative of the events that led to the historic commitment. Burt Pines was already trailing Vietnamese armored units in his TIME & LIFE Jeep. As troops rolled into Prasaut, 20 miles across the border, Pines breakfasted with III Corps Commander Lieut. General Do Cao Tri, who invited him along...
...reporter is to observe rather than to act. He remains the professional outsider, detached and uninvolved. To reverse Tennyson, his is to reason why, not do or die. But sometimes the distinction between observer and actor breaks down. The last few weeks in Cambodia, notes TIME Correspondent Robert Anson, has been such a time. His report, filed from Phnom-Penh, headquarters for more than 100 foreign correspondents...
TIME'S Robert Anson and T.D. AIIman arrived in Takeo, 50 miles from Phnom-Penh, only hours after Cambodian soldiers had gunned down more than 150 Vietnamese. The victims included 110 men, 30 boys under the age of eleven, half a dozen government officials of Vietnamese extraction, and an unknown number of women and girls. Anson's and Allman's report...
...Bangkok and Saigon were "so bad that for a time they looked like a drunken man's version of the Rosetta stone." Bangkok Bureau Chief David Greenway, who filed exhaustively on the political implications of the coup, reported the same trouble from his end, as did Correspondent Robert Anson, working on the story in Vientiane, Laos. At one point Anson noted that he had managed to set up a private minibureau for TIME in an abandoned airline office near his hotel. "It has a chair, a desk, a telephone and a rat, but we call it home...