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...FIRST TRIP to Saigon in 1962 as a reporter for the New York Times, David Halberstam saw the American effort in Vietnam as a worthwhile endeavor. The war, he says in his notes in The Best and the Brightest, seemed to be a test of two political systems in a political war, and he preferred "our system." Admitting his failure, the failure of the press and many others at the time to see the atrocities the United States government would commit in Southeast Asia, Halberstam arrived at a different conclusion by 1962--that our handling of Vietnam was doomed...
...debacle in Viet Nam created some different Americans too. A veteran Foreign Service officer recalls that in Saigon discontented "dependent wives" sympathized with the V.C. "They talked about 'our struggle' as if there was some connection between the guerrillas shelling Nhatrang and a lot of old hens in the embassy compound refusing to make peanut-butter sandwiches...
Associate Editor Burton Pines, who wrote our cover story, has had extenisive foreign experiences: he has served as correspondent in Bonn and Saigon, and covered Eastern Europe from Vienna As a writer m New York for the past four years, he has specialized in stories concerning diplomacy and national security. Fourteen correspondents in eleven bureaus around the world supplied Pines with reports on foreign perspectives. The major reporting was done in our Washington bureau: Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott State Department Correspondent Christopher Ogden, White House Correspondent Stanley Cloud and Pentagon Correspondent Bruce Nelan...
...people a month for the next three months. After that the number will be reduced to 100. But to qualify for entry at all, refugees must have close relatives who are U.S. citizens or be in a "high risk" category of people who held ranking positions in the Saigon regime, or who collaborated closely with U.S. military or Government agencies in Viet...
...First a boat had to be acquired, then supplies and fuel were hoarded-in small quantities, so as not to arouse the suspicions of the security police. Nguyen Duyen, 39, a former South Vietnamese naval officer, started plotting his escape as soon as the Communist tanks began rumbling toward Saigon in the spring of 1975. He sold everything he owned to buy a fishing boat, but his escape plans were interrupted when he was imprisoned for ten months in a "reeducation" camp. After his release Nguyen tried to make a living as a fisherman, but he was unable to support...