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...offices closed and policemen deserted their posts; he was taken out by a U.S. helicopter along with the American officials he had come to interview. William McWhirter, who provided much of the reporting on the refugee exodus for this week's cover narrative, has twice had to flee cities as they fell in confusion and panic: first Danang, last week Nha Trang...
Inevitably, the headlong exodus was interpreted as a political statement by partisans of both sides. Saigon claimed that the refugees were struggling to escape Communist rule; Hanoi attributed the flight to propaganda inspired by the U.S. and South Viet Nam, and claimed that many refugees were forced to flee at gunpoint by panicky ARVN troops...
...Region I (see box, page 33). Some of the government's best units - such as the rangers and the First Division - were defending the city against about 35,000 Communist troops. When the attack came early Sunday, a heavy artillery and rocket barrage apparently forced the defenders to flee, allowing the Communists to roll easily over the sprawling city. They captured thousands of Saigon's troops and an enormous amount of U.S.-provided equipment, including warplanes, tanks and artillery. At week's end Lam Dong, a sparsely populated tea-growing province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, also...
...week long, Saigon was buzzing with rumors about President Nguyen Van Thieu. One air force officer, after swearing his family to secrecy, told them that the President was under house arrest. Some said that the President was preparing to flee the country. Others heard that he was ready to resign...
Those men and women consigned to drudge through their lives within the constraints imposed by an insular environment have often taken refuge in the palliative image of the voyage. The literature of Britain, for example, is lush with attempts by writers to flee the island's wave-beaten shores on the wings of poesy. Joseph Conrad's Jim leaves Victorian propriety behind him to become a brutal lord among primitive East Indies tribesmen. D.H. Lawrence's characters trek to all parts of the globe in search of a primeval energy lacking in Edwardian drawing rooms. Malcolm Lowry's consul seeks...