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...expedition was uncovering large caches of enemy supplies (see THE WORLD). But both Secretary of State William Rogers and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, in talks with newsmen, conceded that it would take some time to prove just how much the foray had accomplished. "We're going to know by the end of June," Rogers told a press conference. "See where we are in July and August," said Laird. As battlefield action in Cambodia sharpened -the venture had cost 140 American lives through last week-Laird and Rogers tried to accentuate the peaceful. Laird predicted that by July...
...they will do so. "I have no deadline," said President Nguyen Van Thieu. And, he added, his troops would enter Cambodia "again and again, if necessary." Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was equally outspoken. Resplendent in black flying suit and purple scarf, Ky helicoptered into Neak Luong and told newsmen that ARVN troops would remain in Cambodia for "at least months." When the Cambodians "can fight the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong by themselves, we will go home," said Ky, sounding like a U.S. general discussing Vietnamization...
Griping by reporters is as endemic to the newspaper business as deadlines. Whenever newsmen get together, chances are they will complain about being underpaid or overedited, or both. Lately, some reporters in the U.S. have been showing signs of more organized dissatisfaction about other issues. They are following a European trend (TIME, Jan. 19) and seeking a bigger voice in how their papers are run. Items...
...block the students from charging into the downtown area. Students reacted by dousing trees with gasoline, then setting them afire. Order was restored before midnight. On Sunday, Governor Rhodes arrived in Kent. He made no attempt to seek the advice of Kent State President Robert I. White and told newsmen that campus troublemakers were "worse than Brown Shirts and Communists and vigilantes-they're the worst type of people that we harbor in America." He refused to close the campus, as Portage County Prosecutor Ronald Kane pleaded; instead, he declared a state of emergency and banned all demonstrations...
When he appears at receptions and parties, he is instantly surrounded by newsmen, Turkish officials and other diplomats. In a capital not noted for its excitement, the diplomatic gossip mill seems to run on practically nothing but Dubcek tidbits. "He told me he gets a letter every day from each of his three sons in Prague," one woman reported. Even the local children have taken to looking out for him on his quiet walks through Kurulu Park, behind his residence. "Sometimes when the children see me they shout, 'Dubcek, Dubcek!'" he mentioned recently. "But they...