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...affirming that it would be just fine if the path to pure communism first made the Vietnamese rich. Last week these leaders and others around the world agreed to an unusual experience: a prolonged, unscripted press conference that is part of a unique institution in American journalism, the TIME Newstour...
...Philippines, the Newstour went to Clark Air Base, where Major- General Gordon (Gordy) Williams and his counterpart at nearby Subic Bay Naval Base, Rear-Admiral Edwin Kohn, described the strategic importance of the two U.S. facilities. The guest journalists met with a broad range of political figures, including Jaime Cardinal Sin and the widow of assassinated Opposition Leader Benigno Aquino. They spent a total of five hours with President Ferdinand Marcos, first in a rigorous question-and-answer session (see WORLD) and then at a banquet that evening...
...elaborate main reception hall at Manila's Malacanang Palace, President Ferdinand E. Marcos, 68, looked frail but basically healthy as he greeted 52 U.S. business leaders and Time Inc. journalists traveling through Asia on a Time-sponsored Newstour. Speaking calmly and firmly, Marcos called Western reports that he was near death "really exaggerated." But he made selective use of facts and figures to dismiss the concerns of U.S. analysts, blandly promising an imminent upturn in the Philippine economy and a decline in the strength of Communist insurgents. Marcos took refuge in dubious legal arguments to defend the 1973 constitution, tailored...
Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, met with the Time Newstour in Hanoi's French colonial-style Chu Tich Phu presidential palace. Dressed formally in a black, high-collared suit that accentuated his bronze features and high-combed silver hair, Pham took questions for more than an hour in a large, red- carpeted receiving hall, under a huge bust of his mentor, Ho Chi Minh. Throughout the session, Pham lived up to his reputation for haughty intractability, flashing anger at some questions, receiving others with a scornful laugh. He also showed an intransigent commitment to maintaining his country's doctrinaire...
...turbulent week sapped Marcos' energy, he was not letting it show. ^ His top priority, it seemed, was to counter negative press reports about his health and that of his regime. On Wednesday, he spent a total of five hours with the members of a TIME-sponsored Newstour. He appeared physically fit, but his bland and selective answers to questions were starkly at variance with the reality that U.S. officials and his domestic critics claim for the Philippines (see interview). Two days later, after posing for photographs showing him jogging and golfing, Marcos flew to his home province, Ilocos Norte, belying...