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...almost exactly 25 years ago, in May 1950, that TIME ran its first cover story on the fighting in Viet Nam. The face on the magazine's cover then was that of the country's embattled Emperor Bao Dai; the issue was whether the U.S. should heed appeals for American assistance in the French struggle against Viet Minh insurgents. In the quarter-century since then, events have compelled cover treatment of the seemingly endless Indochina conflict no fewer than 64 times. Whether or not some sort of final resolution of war is at last at hand, the anonymous...
...almost universally conceded that the American intervention in Viet Nam was a mistake-a mistake that involved four Presidents, many of the nation's top statesmen. Once they had followed the French into the wrong war for the wrong reasons, they failed to heed the evidence that-short of the notorious suggestion to bomb the country back into the Stone Age-the Viet Nam War could never be "won" in the traditional sense. At fault perhaps was an American inability to accept defeat, or a hypnotic preoccupation with the models of previous, simpler wars. There was no precedent...
...were fewer than 40 guests. Because of fears for the country's economic stability, Portugal's 2 million workers abroad have cut back sharply on the funds they customarily send home. In a television broadcast last week, Premier Gonçalves exhorted migrant workers to pay no heed "to the defamatory and reactionary campaigns of certain organs of information" and to come home and "verify that the country is happier than the sad Portugal you used to know...
...elderly chairmen of House committees were at least temporarily deposed. Although two were fighting to regain their posts, and no successor was certain of approval in any of the four positions, the action jolted the leaders of all 21 House committees into a new awareness: they will have to heed their colleagues and perform effectively if they wish to retain their power...
...when the state legislature banned pop-top cans and no-deposit, no-return bottles. Oregonians now must pay a 2? to 5? deposit on containers. The idea was to create an incentive for returning empties or, if they were thrown out anyway, to turn one person's heed less discard into another's petty cash...