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While most foreigners were fleeing Saigon last April in the last days before the National Liberation Front victory, Frank A. Mariano, former Saigon Bureau Chief for ABC News, returned to the capital, to continue ABC's coverage...
...February 1975, after a seven-month interlude in Hong Kong, Mariano returned to Saigon to expand and direct the ABC bureau there which was trimmed to a maintenance staff of 11 after the American withdrawal...
These warnings are reminiscent of Administration pleas in early 1975 for last-ditch aid to failing anti-Communist governments in Saigon and Phnom-Penh. In the Wall Street Journal last week, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., charged the Administration with unnecessary hyperbole and suspect logic. "I strongly doubt," he argued, "that anyone in the Soviet Union is concluding today that . . . the Senate's action on Angola gives Moscow a blank check for foreign adventures...
...have already been reclaimed, and in the cities special educational meetings are being held to explain the program's objectives to those who remain. The PRG hopes to help 100,000 peasants a month return to their homes, so that by the end of this year 1.5 million of Saigon's present inhabitants will have returned to rural areas...
UNTIL THE REST of the land can be reclaimed, however. Saigon will remain crowded and noisy. The PRG is unwilling to move people to the countryside unless it is certain they can be productive there. John Holum, one of Sen. McGovern's aides who accompanied the senator on a whirlwind trip to the two Vietnamese capitals last month, says that while Hanoi is "a quiet, dignified city with everyone going about their business," Saigon has "a carnival atmosphere, it's noisy, there are a lot of people standing around, dressed in Western clothing." Small stands on the streets of Saigon...