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Reporting from Indochina has never been easy, but the upheavals in both Cambodia and South Viet Nam in the past few weeks have vastly complicated the tasks of newsmen and photographers there (see THE PRESS). TIME Correspondent William Stewart, a veteran of the Easter offensive of 1972, flew into one northern provincial capital only to find the city literally collapsing around him as banks and offices closed and policemen deserted their posts; he was taken out by a U.S. helicopter along with the American officials he had come to interview. William McWhirter, who provided much of the reporting...
...South Viet Nam and Cambodia. I share the strong view of many Americans that, in cooperation with the International Red Cross and the private voluntary agencies, the good offices and active presence of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and UNICEF will help to save lives in Indochina, protect the movement of refugees, facilitate the free movement of relief personnel and supplies to areas of need on all sides, and, hopefully, strengthen needed efforts for peace. Several of my colleagues in the Senate have joined me in sponsoring a bill to provide emergency funds to support this effort...
Ford plans a speech that is intended to reassure other allies that, as one of his senior advisers puts it, "Viet Nam is not the end of the world" for the U.S. Regardless of what happens in Indochina, the President will emphasize, America will remain faithful to its commitments elsewhere. He is also expected to outline precisely what, if anything, the U.S. can now do about the deteriorating situation in South Viet Nam, based on the mission to Saigon of Army Chief of Staff General Frederick C. Weyand and the resulting options prepared by the National Security Council. Briefing...
Even in wartime, the flight of up to 2 million people from an opposing army has to be considered an extraordinary phenomenon. Why were they fleeing, and from whom? Through more than two decades of war in Indochina, some observers have maintained that most of the 20 million people below the 17th parallel were at best reluctant antiCommunists. Basically, the argument went, Northerners and Southerners were above all Vietnamese, separated by only the most artificial of boundaries. Despite some provincial animosities, they were capable of getting along pretty well if outside powers would only leave them alone...
Phnom-Penh, once one of Indochina's most elegant cities, is seized by anxiety and foreboding. Its population of 500,000 has been swollen to 2 million by refugees. Despite the ever present danger from random Khmer Rouge rocketing, children still sing in the streets in the early evening and decorations are going up for the Cambodian New Year, April 13. But after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious...