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...work at high speed. Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has headed TIME'S coverage of the war for more than two years, had spent a day in the field with Premier Ky and was having breakfast with him the next morning, a few hours after the Honolulu conference was announced. With five other U.S. correspondents, McCulloch flew to Hawaii with the Premier, who lost $8 at poker during the 13-hour flight. TIME White House Reporter Hugh Sidey and State Department Correspondent Jess Cook arrived from Washington with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook...
...hours the Saigon team cabled more than 40,000 words, which provided the substance of the WORLD cover and the piece on pacification. Four other stories in the NATION section deal with Honolulu and related issues. Ron Kriss, who wrote the Man of the Year story, also wrote the Rusk article and this week's principal Viet Nam stories in NATION. Jason McManus, who did the cover on the peace offensive, also wrote this week's Ky cover, again aided by Researcher Joanne Funger. It will not be their-or TIME'S-last cover on Viet...
...hurly-burly atmosphere of Honolulu may not have seemed the most appropriate setting for a clearheaded, thoroughgoing analysis of U.S. policy in Asia. Yet, for all the haste and hoopla with which it was mounted, last week's conference between the leaders of the U.S. and South Viet Nam did in fact put the nation's goals-and the war itself-in clearer perspective...
...Honolulu conference was a good start toward changing that. Its three kinetic days held out hope that Johnson may succeed in mobilizing the good will of the American people behind a program of social reconstruction for the people of Viet Nam-and at the same time drive home the realization that neither military victory nor nation-building will be achieved quickly...
...idealism and self-interest based on the acknowledgment that the military war cannot be won in a vacuum, that it will only be successful to the extent that it helps liberate the Vietnamese from poverty, ignorance and exploitation. As the President said in welcoming Saigon's leaders to Honolulu: "We are here to talk especially of the works of peace. We will leave here determined not only to achieve victory over aggression, but also to win victory over hunger, disease and despair...