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...have arrived on the scene with their own claims to attention. Photographing "The New Beauties" was an especially welcome diversion for TIME'S Dirck Halstead. Since joining the magazine in 1972, Halstead has spent much of his time on various military and political battlefields. Between visits to Indochina to cover North Viet Nam's 1972 and 1975 offensives, he spent almost two years as TIME'S White House photographer covering the painfully unfolding Watergate drama. Twelve of his pictures from that era became TIME covers. Says Halstead: "When I was told to travel around...
...Peace in Indochina...
Prepared for War. Such accusations have acquired a new urgency since the Communist takeover of Indochina. In Korea, where many remember the Communist invasion that began 25 years ago this month, there are widespread fears of a new attack. North Korea's hard-lining Communist President Kim Il Sung, newly returned from a conference in Peking last month, increased Southern fears by declaring: "We are prepared for war." South Korea's strongman President Park Chung Hee responded with equal bellicosity, warning that the South is also ready for a fight. In this policy, Park has the support...
...Korea as a symbol of Washington's intention to honor its 1953 defense treaty with Seoul. The treaty pledges that if South Korea is attacked, the U.S. will come to its aid "in accordance with its [U.S.] constitutional processes." Nonetheless, in the wake of the Communist victories in Indochina, Seoul is nervous about American reliability. "We hope the U.S. will demonstrate by deeds its firm determination not to commit the same failures in the Korean peninsula as it did in the Indochina peninsula," said a recent National Assembly resolution. A Harris poll late last year, however, reported that...
...seems, at first glance, an odd candidate to be the object of a cult. The nation is exhausted by its Indochina war. He was in the White House during another bitterly debated Asian conflict. Détente remains the Administration's diplomatic goal. He was a general in the cold war. Politics is perhaps the most discredited profession in the country. He knew no other way of life...