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GLORIA EMERSON'S Winners and Losers has not, on the whole, received very good reviews. Amost without exception, critics have said that her book--a collection of interviews and reminiscences about the war in Indochina--is confused, poorly written, and above all too personal. A Saigon correspondent for The New York Times from 1970 to 1972, Emerson drops any pretense to objectivity in Winners and Losers, concentrating instead on how the war affected her and other individuals. As a result, the critics have generally agreed with Garry Wills, who wrote disapprovingly in The New York Review of Books that...
...Vietnamese as she could. Her book has been criticized bacause the majority of the people she describes are American, but Emerson explains early on that she, like so many other foreign correspondents, found it difficult to contact North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese freedom fighters. And since the liberation of Saigon, very few Americans have been allowed to visit Vietnam, so it's hard to see how Emerson could include descriptions of the after-effects of the war there...
COMBAT. Though they have traditionally been popular in Hollywood, war movies were eclipsed for a decade or more by the divisive reality of the war in Viet Nam, seen live and in color every night on the evening news. Now, with the fall of Saigon a receding memory, war films are staging their own kind of blitzkrieg. Toral Tora! Tora!, the story of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, nearly ruined 20th Century-Fox when it was released in 1970, at the height of the Viet Nam War. Midway, on the other hand, which took unused footage from Tora...
...sake of realism, refugees from Saigon were dressed in black pajamas, and a Philippine aborigine tribe was brought down from the mountains to portray Montagnards. As camera crews shot around them, they went about their everyday lives of working, eating and even giving birth. Since the Pentagon threw up its hands at the antiwar, antiArmy script, Coppola turned to the more amenable Philippine army, which provided helicopter pilots. The only trouble was that, although the Philippine pilots knew how to take off and land, they were baffled by the intricate maneuvers Coppola demanded. He handled that problem by hiring former...
...Southern cadres survived to take over when the Thieu government collapsed. Instead, nearly all bureaucracies, farms and factories are being run by Northerners. Helping keep order are fresh recruits, known contemptuously as Ba Muoi ("30s," meaning opportunists who joined the revolution after April 30). Says a recent exile from Saigon: "The North Vietnamese Army is still viewed as an army of occupation, not liberation." Adds Hoang Troung Tan, a former civil servant who escaped this fall: "The officials treated me and my father like slaves. My father is a fisherman who had to sell his catch to the government...