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...There were, of course, worthwhile, even admirable reports. NBC's John Hart did a thoughtful piece on a victory parade in Hue, pointing up the ambiguities of the celebration. CBS's Walter Cronkite returned to Viet Nam with Republican Congressman John McCain, a former prisoner of war, and revisited the place where McCain had been shot down and imprisoned. Today offered a moving segment on the plight of Amerasians in Viet Nam, the children fathered by American G.I.s and now treated as outcasts. Nonetheless, viewers could not be faulted if they felt they were seeing the country through a peephole...
...much of the resourcefulness of the Saigon of old, like a fading madam who still has jewelry to sell. Pedicab drivers offer Western passengers "beautiful young girls," while street entrepreneurs compete to buy dollars at several times the official (100 to 1) rate. In the black market along Nguyen Hue Street, a few trendsetters wearing body shirts, designer jeans and modish sunglasses wander among stalls crammed with the latest in color TVs and stereo systems...
...armor. At Camp Holloway, in the Central Highlands, youngsters play outside the old U.S. barracks, while visitors can still make out THE SWAMP scrawled across the wall of the club in which helicopter pilots used to unwind. And outside the shattered Citadel in the ancient capital of Hue, where thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed, the air still seems touched by the sickly smell of death...
...weirdly effortless. They rolled across the Central Highlands. There the South Vietnamese army (ARVN) collapsed in headlong panic. The ARVN soldiers fought bravely elsewhere, notably around Xuan Loc, but the Communists drove steadily south. They overwhelmed all the place-names that had become so improbably familiar: Quang Tri, Hue, Danang, Kontum, Pleiku, Nha Trang...
...Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet Nam for TIME and LIFE during several tours from 1965 on. He had his final assignment there in 1975, covering the South Vietnamese retreat from Hue down the coast to the outskirts of Saigon. Photographer Dirck Halstead, who was based in Saigon three times between 1965 and 1975 for United Press International and TIME, took prize-winning pictures of the frenzied crowds trying to escape Saigon in 1975 before leaving himself by helicopter from Tan Son Nhut airfield...