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Reporting for this week's cover story on the My Lai massacre was an even more difficult and painful assignment than usual for our Saigon bureau. "A mantle of almost complete secrecy descended on American officialdom in Viet Nam, both military and civilian," cabled Bureau Chief Marsh Clark. Nevertheless, Clark and his staff provided intensive coverage of the events in their area. Correspondent Burt Pines pursued the psychological aspects with doctors and chaplains at U.S. Army headquarters in Long Binh, while Stringer Harold Ellithorpe, a Viet Nam veteran, contributed the comments of Red Cross officials plus his own observations...
...When the story finally broke in some detail, it was largely because of the digging of a freelance writer who, to complete his research, had to get a $1,000 grant from a foundation. Seymour M. Hersh, 32, had been a police reporter for Chicago's City News Bureau, a Pentagon reporter for A.P. and a press secretary for Eugene McCarthy. Hersh had written a book on chemical and biological warfare, and he was working on another about the Pentagon when one of his contacts called him in Washington around...
...Showbiz scheduling cover on Raquel Welch . . ." read the query to Jonathan Larsen in our Los Angeles bureau. And indeed, says Larsen, "when I told people that I was going to interview Raquel Welch, everybody conjured up this image of her in a plunging minidress, batting her long eyelashes at me in seductive silence over a candlelit dinner." Alas, it wasn't like that at all, reports Jon. "Our first interview took place in broad daylight, with Raquel in a voluminous caftan, drinking Gatorade and complaining nonstop about the problems of being a modern sex goddess." Despite that somewhat disappointing...
Teen-age sophisticates can snicker as much as they like, but Mrs. John Mitchell's first experiment with marijuana was a sure enough bad trip. The Attorney General's wife offered to help dramatize a Bureau of Narcotics briefing for Justice Department wives by taking a whiff of some marijuana leaves burning in a pot. "I stuck my head right over it," Mrs. Mitchell recalls, "and no sooner had I got my head up off the stuff than my eyes started running and my throat was all irritated." Despite medication, a violent 24-hour allergic reaction...
Tents on the Lawns. By Weather Bureau reckoning, Camille was the most violent storm ever to strike the U.S. The hurricane's fury-210-m.p.h. winds and waves up to 22 ft. high-fell most savagely upon the Delta parish of Plaquemines, La., and a 35-mile shorefront strip of Mississippi from Pascagoula to Waveland. Both areas remain a jumble of devastation. Hundreds of homes, motels and other business establishments stand roofless or without walls. Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides. Some families are living in tents on their front lawns...