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...stories in our twelve-page section on the cease-fire this week, we asked TIME correspondents who have reported from Indochina for their most vivid impressions. Roy Rowan, now in Hong Kong, recalled the atmosphere in June 1948. The military language was French then, the berets red, Americans as scarce as they were later to be ubiquitous. But the datelines - Tay Ninh, Ben Cat, Can Tho, Pleiku - were to remain bloody constants for 25 years...
...dubious and troubling phrase to apply to Viet Nam. No matter what honor the U.S. could still extract from that cruel battleground, honor must now be sought at home as much as abroad. As Kissinger put it in his briefing: "Together with healing the wounds in Indochina, we can begin to heal the wounds in America...
Peter H. Wolff, professor of Psychiatry and co-chairman of Medical Aid for Indochina (MAI), said yesterday that the Indochina ceasefire will permit MAI to send funds directly to the small villages of North Vietnam...
Wolff added that MAI has been providing medical supplies and equipment to Indochina for the last 18 months. Aid to South Vietnam was cut off because supplies sent there "simply disappeared," he said...
Sections of Laos and Vietnam are pockmarked with so many bomb craters that they resemble the landscape of the moon. Indeed, the people of Indochina have learned to live with the reality of twentieth century warfare...