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...Kicked. The ARVN troops had every reason to move carefully. In all, there are some 30,000 North Vietnamese troops in the southern Laotian panhandle-more than enough to make life unpleasant for 14,000 ARVN troops that have been sent in. TIME'S Saigon bureau chief, Jonathan Larsen, followed part of the advance in an ARVN helicopter. "Weaving this way and that to avoid possible enemy fire," Larsen reported, "we swept past American fire bases and ARVN armored units, whirring over a repaired Route 9 and the beautiful Pone River, which marks the border. After...
...several months now," cabled TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "relations between the press corps and the military command in Saigon have grown chillier and chillier. With little combat reporting to be done, journalists have begun scrounging around base camps and rear areas, asking questions about drugs, fragging, phony decorations and morale. The Army has retaliated by refusing interviews, bird-dogging correspondents in the field, and generally administering the news with an eyedropper...
...Larsen and his colleagues-both in Indochina and Washington -even an eyedropper's worth of information would have been greeted with heartfelt cheers during much of last week. Seeking to report a cover story on General Creighton Abrams and the biggest allied operation since the thrust into Cambodia, TIME'S correspondents ran up against a news blackout so complete that it seemed almost laughable. As Dewey Canyon II got under way, Saigon newsmen were briefed (in the truest sense of the word), told that all news was embargoed and then informed that even word of the embargo...
...many critics, Abrams' math does not add up. Getting involved in wars in Cambodia and Laos as well as South Viet Nam could make U.S. withdrawal more difficult, not easier. "By edging Cambodia closer to war than it had been," says TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jon Larsen, "we inevitably moved it from a secondary concern to one almost as intertwined with our interests in Indochina as South Viet Nam. The same will be true of Laos." Another problem is that if ARVN is to be called upon regularly for cavalry duty in Cambodia, and possibly Laos as well, it might...
Four of 233. "To someone who has never been in Saigon, these obstacles may seem small," reports TIME Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen. "In fact, they are gargantuan." In the company-town atmosphere of Viet Nam, the military has a near monopoly on most efficient forms of communication. Without military mail privileges, for example, a lawyer in Saigon who writes to his client upcountry can figure that his letter will be routed to the soldier's APO number in San Francisco. The letter will reach the soldier-perhaps a month later...