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About a third of the film reflects no political bias: shoppers in a busy department store, workers in a modern textile factory. About a third of it is warmly pro-Ho: President Ho Chi Minh himself appears only in stills, but the movie offers an interview showing Premier Pham Van Dong as a merry little grig who seems about to warble Whistle While You Work. There is also a sequence in which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third...
...President of the U.S. pointedly noted that the war in Viet Nam posed no threat to "the vital interests of the Soviet Union" and "does not have to stop us from finding new ways of dealing with one another." The President spoke barely a week after North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong and Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, according to diplomats, flew to the Black Sea, after a two-day layover in Peking, to meet vacationing Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Premier Aleksei Kosygin. The presence of the Hanoi leaders was never formally acknowledged by the Russians...
...white spinal cord continued to pulsate regularly, but there was no assurance that Hoi Pham would ever move her limbs again - until the surgeons gave a sharp tweak to her left leg. It kicked up smartly...
Mixed Motives. For the surgeons, no less than for Hoi Pham, that reaction was a near miracle. For two months the child had stoically borne a pain in her neck that gradually forced her head toward her shoulder at a grotesque 30° angle. With paralysis from strangulation of her spinal column, she could no longer walk, could barely move her arms. A corpsman took Hoi Pham to Project Viet Nam civilian doctors, who have volunteered to care for civilians (TIME, May 20). With no neurosurgeon among them, they referred her to the Navy. Dr. Pitlyk found that Hoi Pham...
...case of Hoi Pham Tri illustrates the growing, voluntary response of U.S. military doctors and corpsmen to the medical problems of civilians. In the slack times between treating service men's wounds and illnesses, many doctors in the three medical corps have turned to treating the Vietnamese. Their motives are admittedly mixed. One is concern for the helpless, neglected sick; another is the challenge of severe cases. "Imagine!" says Dr. Pitlyk, "I wouldn't have seen a case like Hoi Pham's in five years at any emergency ward in the U.S., where people just...