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...correspondents know their way around as well as Richard Beebe Dudman. Resourceful without being reckless, in 20 years on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he has learned to operate with equal ease in Cuba or Washington, the Middle East or London, Viet Nam or Paris. But no newsman can be at ease on assignment in Cambodia...
...this month, on his sixth visit to Indochina, Dudman left Saigon in a turquoise scout car for a firsthand look at developments across the Cambodian border in Svay Rieng province and perhaps Phnom-Penh. Driving the car was Michael Morrow, 24, a founder and correspondent of Dispatch News Service, the tiny agency that distributed Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer-prizewinning story on My Lai. Between the two men sat Elizabeth Ann Pond, 33, on leave from her job as Viet Nam correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor...
...Cambodian army roadblock on the outskirts of Svay Rieng town. Ronald Ross, correspondent for the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, was in another vehicle ahead of them. "I looked back and saw Dick and Beth arguing with the Cambodians about getting through," he says. Ross continued on his way. Dudman, Morrow and Pond have not been heard from since...
Keeping It Out. Last week, in a series of articles in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Correspondent Richard Dudman added a few more details: "Middlemen sold some of the food to the starving at exorbitant prices. A wealthy landowner succeeded in keeping relief food out of [a nearby] valley so he could continue selling his own wheat at three times the normal price. Mills at Cuzco and Arequipa charged the drought-relief program 27? to 32? per 100 Ibs. for grinding grain when their normal fee was only 6?. Analysis of the flour showed it contained large amounts of dirt...
Moving in the Troops. Into the sudden news vacuum, the press moved troops. Daily airborne platoons of newsmen landed at Havana's Rancho Boyeros, and the A.P. snapped to military attention: "The Associated Press moved extensive reinforcements into Havana today." Some of the arrivals were trained hands: Richard Dudman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois, the New York Herald Tribune's Frank Kelly. Most were not, like the Vancouver Sun's Fashion Editor Marie Moreau, abruptly shifted from a haute couture visit in New York, to a Havana...