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...wake of the collapse of Saigon's Thieu regime four months ago, North Viet Nam has been emerging as a major Southeast Asian power. When, for example, a mausoleum honoring the late Ho Chi Minh was unveiled during Ha noi's recent independence celebrations, the ceremony was attended by dozens of visiting foreign dignitaries. To assess Southeast Asia's changing geopolitical landscape, Otto Fuerbringer, editor of magazine development at Time Inc. and former managing editor of TIME, toured the region and talked with many of its leaders. His report...
There is little doubt that Hanoi would like to have all of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia under its control. Saigon and the Mekong Delta, for instance, are prizes the North Vietnamese treasure, but they would prefer to absorb them with a minimum of dissension and violence. Thus Hanoi's tactics in South Viet Nam are shrewd and pragmatic: go slow, don't push, reeducate...
...breed apart-which is probably a good thing. "I used to be a war-a-year man," says the London Sunday Times's Donald McCullin, "but now that's not enough. I need two a year." Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas, who plastered his office in Saigon with atrocity pictures the way some men hang pinups, admitted to a colleague, "Vot I like eez boom-boom. Oh, yes." To New York Herald Tribune Reporter Marguerite Higgins, covering earlier conflicts, combat was more overtly sexual. She would not marry, she told friends, "until I find...
...access" in the French Foreign Ministry. According to the CIA source, the French felt "deceived by Hanoi's assurances that [North Viet Nam] would not invade the South." Piqued, "Paris now refuses to grant Hanoi new credits until the situation in the South clarifies and until Hanoi or Saigon makes a preliminary acknowledgement of debts contracted by the Thieu government...
Long Xich Luong, father of ten, mans the telex in our San Francisco bureau. "I just dial New York, the light comes on, and I send traffic. In Saigon I often had to wait two or three hours." Long is eager to learn better English. Indeed, the language barrier is the worst problem for the entire family, though American customs are as unfamiliar as the idiom. Accustomed to Saigon's strictly military parades, the Longs were surprised to find not only firemen and politicians but also schoolchildren marching in Corte Madera, Calif., on the Fourth of July. After seeing...