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...advisers led td the decision to evacuate all remaining Americans. By midafternoon in Saigon, dozens of American helicopters had begun arriving. By 7:52 the following morning, the last chopper had lifted off the roof of the American embassy (see following story). Except for a handful of newsmen and missionaries, the American presence in Viet Nam had come...
...Only Antonioni's vision of a decadent, uninvolved and overinformed western civilization and its own use of the camera eye corresponds easily to a conventional sense of social criticism. David Locke, the journalist, his wife and his news colleagues all lead prechanneled lives, never confronting nature or themselves. The newsmen chase facts which long since have stopped meaning anything real to them. Like the photographer in Blow-Up, they are observers, lying to themselves about the importance of their observations, as well as to the rest of their society. Locke's position as a transplanted European in Africa makes...
...Pending immigration clearance, the State Department ordered that evacuees be confined to the compound, and barbed wire was strung in some areas-an unpleasant precaution that not only protected the security of the base but, as it turned out, shielded the refugees from hordes of gawkers, hucksters and newsmen. Forbidden to go as far as the base noncommissioned-officers' club for a glass of beer, American citizens quickly protested that they were being treated like prisoners. "They won't let me out!" one American complained by telephone to a stateside relative. Said Jacques Carbonel, waving a red official...
...most of his predecessors. But Ford accepts the brickbats as part of his job. It would be inconceivable for him to cancel a subscription to a newspaper* that offended him, as John Kennedy did, or denounce individual reporters in the manner of Lyndon Johnson, much less put wiretaps on newsmen or have them investigated by the FBI as the Nixon Administration ordered...
Edelin sat quietly through the proceedings which lasted an hour and a half. More than 80 spectators and a dozen newsmen attended the hearing