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...totaled about 16,000. Today, with 335,000 U.S. military on the scene, the TIME-LIFE team includes 14 correspondents and photographers plus a group of ten South Vietnamese. Our Saigon bureau chief is Simmons Fentress, formerly of the Washington bureau, and his two top resident correspondents are Donald Neff and William McWhirter. Constantly shuttling in and out of South Viet Nam from Hong Kong are Frank McCulloch, our senior correspondent in Asia, and Reporters Karsten Prager and Arthur Zich...
Headquarters for the staff is a small villa, which also serves as a residence for Correspondent Neff and lodging for the frequent staff visitors (Nation Editor Michael Demarest has just returned from two weeks in Viet Nam, including several days in the jungled central highlands). With its one air-conditioned room, the villa is looked upon by the Saigon staff as practically a dream house, but Stateside visitors bring back word that it wouldn't be such a hot piece of property on the U.S. market...
...banks could be heard the sound of blasting and rumble of heavy equipment in a region virtually empty of inhabitants. By early April, Ma's aviators could follow the trail for 60 miles from Cambodia to where it entered South Viet Nam. Last week TIME Correspondent Don Neff flew over the Sihanouk Trail in one of six Laotian T-28 fighter-bombers led by General Ma. His report...
...this week's on-the-spot reporting is unmatched for its expertise, including as it did Hong Kong Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch, who has been covering the war for 2½ years, and James Wilde, an old Viet Nam hand, as well as seasoned reporters Donald Neff, William McWhirter, Zalin Grant, Than Trong Hue and Robin Mannock. Working with their files from Saigon and others from the Tokyo and Washington bureaus, Writer Jason McManus brought his own knowledgeableness to the story: he has written in addition to many of our week-to-week stories on Viet Nam, five...
Inside the base, where TIME Correspondent Don Neff walked in on the crisis, the U.S. Marines had to make some quick decisions. If Yeu shelled the base, he would not only precipitate civil war between Vietnamese units but would almost surely kill or injure some of the 30,000 Americans stationed there. Since there were no ranking Vietnamese officers around, Lieut. General Lewis Walt, commander of the 3rd Marine Amphibious Force at the base, decided to move fast. He ordered a detail of 60 marines to cut Yeu's still advancing column in half by stalling a big truck...