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Vietnam's Foreign Minister, Nguyen Co Thach, spoke in Hanoi with TIME's Washington bureau chief, Stanley W. Cloud. Excerpts...
Supposedly, the siege was over. The North Vietnamese had finally quit Prey Totung, a Cambodian crossroads town, and TIME correspondent Stanley W. Cloud went in to report the story. But within moments after a helicopter dropped Cloud and his photographer to the ground, they realized that the bullets were still flying. The pilot panicked and flew off, leaving the journalists in a schoolyard for two days while U.S. fighter-bombers "wasted" the area with napalm and explosives...
That was 1971. Last month Cloud, 53, now Washington bureau chief, returned to Cambodia for the first time in 18 years. He sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial, rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make...
Such perseverance is the theme of Cloud's account of Hout Seng, TIME's driver in Phnom Penh during the war. After an arduous escape from Cambodia, Seng and some of his family were confined in refugee camps in Thailand. With TIME's help, they were eventually able to settle in Washington, where Seng's son Neang, 28, is a photographer. He accompanied Cloud on his recent journey...
...murderous Khmer Rouge today? These questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud, will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander during the My Lai massacre. The show should be a useful complement to TIME's report...