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With South Viet Nam's territory shrinking daily, Photographers Mark Godfrey and Dirck Halstead, who have traveled to the front in Indochina by Jeep, taxi and helicopter in the past, now found the story-and the war-coming to them in Saigon. The fatalistic, enervating mood of defeat they found there contrasted sharply with the elan of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong victors in Danang, captured in an exclusive series of behind-the-lines shots in this issue by the Iranian photographer Abbas...
...Ford needs a vision, America needs a vision, of a world in which our claim to "vital national security interests" in Indochina will be thought to be as ridiculous as China claiming the same in Latin America. We need a vision of a world in which we can trust the diversity of other peoples, and refrain from our childish and futile attempts to buy friendship with weapons. Luther Lewis Davis, Calif...
...VICTORY of the Vietnamese National Liberation Front is a victory, first of all, for the people of Vietnam. Americans, who played a crucial role in forcing their government to withdraw from Indochina, should rejoice in the Vietnamese triumph. And it may even turn out--if Americans are watchful--that President Ford was right, that the evacuation of Americans from Saigon closed "a chapter in the American experience." But for all its profound repercussions for the rest of the world, Tuesday's triumph belongs to the Vietnamese, first and foremost. To focus on the repercussions would be perverse...
...neutral Cambodia would be kept a secret at a later stage of the war. But just as the Cambodians would know they were being bombed, the real nature of the American intervention was no secret to the Vietnamese. At the end of a decade, over a million people throughout Indochina would be dead as a result of this intervention, and its failure would testify, more eloquently than any polemic against those who denounced the PRG, to the inadequacy of terror as a political weapon...
Such a response is unacceptable, both because it is reprehensible to destroy a country and then blame it for the destruction and because it is calculated to enable officials to sucker the ordinary Americans who pay for their plans--55,000 of them paid with their lives, in Indochina--into paying for similar plans again, somewhere else...