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What upset the pair, along with a good many others, was the disclosure by Associated Press Correspondent Peter Arnett that the Pentagon has hired a U.S. company to train Saudi Arabia's 26,000-man national guard. The company, the Vinnell Corp. of Alhambra, Calif, has already begun recruiting among former U.S. military veterans the 1,000 men it will need to do the three-year job in King Faisal's oil-rich desert nation. The suspicious immediately dubbed the task force "mercenaries" and wondered if Vinnell was a CIA front, and double-helix theories multiplied about what...
...before Stroud's third editorial, the Free Press flip-flopped in a different sense. Folksy columnist Judd Arnett revealed on the last page that Henry Ford had told him he favored a gasoline tax-big news in a town suffering the worst slump in car sales since 1958. The afternoon competition, the Detroit News, immediately saw the dynamite in the story, got a statement from Ford, and ran it on Page One, scooping the Free Press. Next day the Free Press tried lamely to recoup with predictable reactions from economists...
Donald Rumsfeld to Frank Carlucci to Phillip Sanchez to Alvin Arnett...
...military press officers descended on the base with orders to keep P.O.W.s and reporters apart. Afternoon briefings-quickly dubbed the 2 O'Clock Follies-were begun, as one officer explained, "to provide the press with a time to air their complaints." Finding this outlet insufficient, A.P. Reporter Peter Arnett filed a story outlining the perfumed and powdered care that base nurses planned to lavish on the P.O.W.s. Fearing howls of outrage from P.O.W. wives, the Pentagon hastily dispatched two high-level press officers to negotiate a cease-fire with the press...
Increasing dangers in the field and decreasing interest in the U.S. have combined to take much of the professional glamour out of the Viet Nam story. "Reporting the war is no longer the noble act it once was," says A.P.'s Arnett. "In the mid-'60s, what you reported had an impact on national policy. Now any piece you do will probably have less impact than one coming out of Washington or Paris." NBC's Jones, who has done several previous stints in Viet Nam, now wonders whether the new risks make the story worthwhile...