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...Tran Van Lam, South Viet Nam's former Foreign Minister, who had signed the Paris accords and is now President of the South Viet Nam Senate, told TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan last week of an earlier and similar letter from Nixon to Thieu. He said that he had kept a photocopy of a two-page Nixon letter dated November 1972. The essence, said Lam, was that Nixon told Thieu reassuringly, "Don't worry about North Viet Nam. It cannot launch an offensive in the South which we would not react to immediately and vigorously." At the time, Lam explained, "Haiphong...
...refugee, a 25-year-old paratrooper, managed to reach Saigon after a ten-day flight by car, foot and boat from Bao Lac, capital of Lam Dong province, after it fell to the Communists. He told his story to TIME...
...Sunday, a heavy artillery and rocket barrage apparently forced the defenders to flee, allowing the Communists to roll easily over the sprawling city. They captured thousands of Saigon's troops and an enormous amount of U.S.-provided equipment, including warplanes, tanks and artillery. At week's end Lam Dong, a sparsely populated tea-growing province 85 miles northeast of Saigon, also fell. There seemed little doubt that the Communists would soon engulf practically all of Military Region II, the twelve provinces in the middle of the country...
...History is littered with the wreckage of governments that could not deal adequately with inflation-and I will also suggest that history is littered with the wreckage of finance ministers who spoke the way lam speaking right...
...conceded that Carmichael's car might "turn out to be only a dream," and one Washington-based editor, Lionel Linder, also mustered a lame defense of Peterson's original article as primarily a "personality piece." Meanwhile, the personality of the piece and her mavericks are on the lam from...