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When U.S. Air Force flyers dumped millions of gallons of an oily herbicide called Agent Orange over the thick jungle canopy of war-ravaged Viet Nam, they unwittingly started a battle that would rage long after the last American helicopter left Saigon. Over the past 13 years, some 35,000 Viet Nam veterans have vigorously pressed Washington to compensate them for injuries and illnesses that they believe were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The herbicide contains dioxin, a potent poison that causes cancer in laboratory animals. But Government officials have delayed paying most claims, pointing to a lack...
Born in Ottawa, Wilde began his career with TIME in 1959 in Indochina. He has since roved from Saigon and Paris to Nairobi and San Francisco, and is currently a senior correspondent based in Rome. One of Wilde's most memorable stories was a 1983 cover on the death penalty. He wrote so gripping an account of what it felt like to sit in an electric chair that the first paragraph of his story was printed on the cover itself. Occasionally, his travels around the world have proved to be somewhat disorienting: when he was covering a kidnaping in California...
...personal favorite was a hypnotic version of "Goodnight Saigon," Joel's ode to the Vietnam veteran, which began with the pounding sounds of helicopters and combined searchlights that swept the audience with Joel's solemn piano chords. Not a cheery moment, but a moving...
...grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north of Saigon...
...enthralling arrival of the Kennedys. For the first time, the White House was deemed worthy of full-time photo coverage. In 1963, as historical events darkened, photojournalism regained some of its tragic power. The A.P.'S Malcolm Browne methodically photographed a Buddhist monk burning himself to death in a Saigon protest. A Dallas Times-Herald photographer caught the instant of Lee Harvey Oswald's death...