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FIFTH--COSMIC PIC loses five pounds off solid effort in route...
...able to sample the flavor of life in the Communist capital for themselves. Among them: Novelist Mary McCarthy, Harry Ashmore of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Miami News Editor William Baggs and CBS Television Correspondent Charles Collingwood. Collingwood's cameraman was French Pho tographer Roger Pic, who took the pictures on the preceding three pages after the bombing pause was announced...
...little faces fell." He explained: "Look, you may not have any confidence in U.S. assurances that it will not hit population centers, but I do." Collingwood had no difficulties with the three bureaucrats assigned to escort him, but the North Vietnamese did hand-pick his cameraman, French Freelancer Roger Pic, who had done several sympathetic films. Collingwood also notes that "naturally, they took me to bomb sites" and trotted out survivors to stare...
...Pic, who had already done three sympathetic documentaries on North Viet Nam, plus others on China and Cuba, had little trouble winning Viet Cong cooperation. After contacting N.L.F. representatives abroad, he made his way to a base camp in the province of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon. How he got there, he says, is a military secret. But "after a march through mud and dense jungle," he wrote in Figaro, his first night at the guerrilla encampment seemed "marvelously comfortable"-even though he slept in a ditch under a corrugated iron roof in a driving rain...
...When Pic accompanied the Viet Cong on their forays out of the camp, he was struck by the fact that although they carried Chinese automatic weapons, antitank guns and bazookas, in the three weeks he was with them, they never used them once. They did not attack an enemy outpost or hamlet. They did not even take a shot at the several reconnaissance planes that flew over daily. If they did, they knew there would be almost certain retaliation from U.S. bombers-and the very real chance of losing a friendly TV cameraman...