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With those words, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger acknowledged last week that the final Indochina crisis was at hand-both in Indochina and in Washington. The Khmer Rouge were masters of Phnom-Penh; the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were tightening their noose around Saigon. Meanwhile most Congressmen remained adamantly opposed to voting any more military aid for South Viet Nam. U.S. involvement in the wars of Indochina was coming to a last and dangerous conclusion; now the most important question to the U.S. was how to evacuate several thousand Americans from South Viet Nam and what to do about...
...history. His first concern could not even be candidly expressed. It was the delicate and dangerous task of extricating 5,000* Americans from an allied nation, South Viet Nam, that seemed in imminent danger of being overrun by the Communist forces of North Viet Nam and the Viet Cong. Also, if it could be done, Ford wanted to evacuate some 200,000 South Vietnamese who have worked closely with the Americans during...
...Although the battlefields were relatively quiet, there was enough fighting to remind the South Vietnamese in the shrunken section under government control that the Communists were not far away. At midweek units of the North Vietnamese army and its Viet Cong allies started probing key government positions in the Saigon area. Often, as at Tay Ninh, 50 miles northwest of Saigon, the attacks were no more than random artillery or rocket barrages. At Tan An, which straddles strategic Highway 4 and is only 20 miles southwest of Saigon, Viet Cong commandos overran the airstrip and held it for eight hours...
...South Viet Nam, the swift advance of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops made venturing outside Saigon a dangerous proposition. Yet as days went by, the suffering, disintegration and chaos in outlying areas became at least as important a subject for coverage as anything happening in the capital. "It's getting easier to get a candid view from high-ranking military officers now," said New York Times Correspondent Malcolm W. Browne. "But there is a fatalistic belief that nothing they say or do matters any more." Still, added Associated Press Bureau Chief George Esper, "you have to be present...
...ever chancier, as the ARVN collapsed before the Communist onslaught. Some newsmen in Saigon were able to buy their way onto a handful of small planes. Others had to be content with piecing together accounts of the war from eyewitnesses, press briefings (including weekly sessions conducted by the Viet Cong in Saigon under the terms of the Paris accords) and an infinite number of rumors. "Just pick up any hotel phone and ask for rumor service," said one correspondent wryly. Ambassador Graham Martin, never a favorite of the U.S. press corps, has discouraged his aides from talking to journalists. Said...