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Already safely out of Indochina were the other men who had covered the disintegration of Cambodia and South Viet Nam for TIME: Peter Range, William McWhirter, David Aikman and former Phnom-Penh Stringer Steven Heder. All looked back on two months of dangerous work during which they often dodged rocket-borne shrapnel while moving among insurgent armies and panicked refugees; they took sad professional satisfaction in being able to report the end of the tragic story. News of the evacuation also stirred memories among the correspondents who have reported Indochina's wars for TIME since our Saigon bureau opened...
...William McWhirter, who reported from Viet Nam during the palace upheavals and military setbacks of the mid-1960s, found that once again the press corps was "no longer trying to report a country neatly organized into definable structures, parties and war zones, but only a suffocating mass of humanity, frightened and on the run-officers, civil servants and well-to-do alike." Added McWhirter: "By degrees, we become involved in the heart of what is happening. Vietnamese stop us while taking notes and ask us to explain the U.S. Congress, when the evacuation is coming, and most poignantly, how they...
...state of schizophrenia-and in both phases seemed equally mad. With their inbred fatalism and stoicism, the 3 million residents of the old French colonial capital fought, often in vain, against a rising sense of terror. The result, as TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William McWhirter cabled from Saigon, was a strange blend of serenity and fear in the aloof and careless city that had so largely been spared the shock...
...wife hid her red, swollen eyes behind large dark glasses; her expressive hands trembled. Normally an impeccable hostess, she was so rattled that she neglected to offer a drink to her visitor, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. With a rueful laugh, she said: "The ridiculous thing is that people keep telephoning me, asking if I can help them. People on the street are so worried. I don't know why. I don't know why the poor people so fear Communism. Why didn't they go to the other side? Naturally, all the upper class would like...
...soon force most of those who have stayed to evacuate and turn over local operations to Vietnamese assistants, many of whom cannot get exit Visas. The Saigonese already abandoned by their American managers are philosophical about their sudden move into the executive suite. One caretaker told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter: "As a foreigner, your country is over there. Why lose your life over here? It's better to let a national do the job for a while." Judging by the week's events in Viet Nam, that could be a short while indeed...