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Outfitted in a tailored black flying suit and pearl-handled revolver, Ky was the flamboyant commander of South Viet Nam's air force and for a time the country's Premier and Vice President. As the Communists pressed on Saigon, he commandeered a helicopter and personally flew it to the deck of a U.S. ship. Ky, 54, who has owned several successful liquor stores in California, is planning to join a partnership that will develop Vietnamese fast-food outlets. He has been accused of leading a crime ring involving former South Vietnamese army officers, but is not the target...
...cautious. "People urging stronger steps are not aware of the consequences. I don't feel that we should pull out and come home. As far as going north, we know there are 200 million in the Chinese army. If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them...
...this point there is no better example than Viet Nam. Guerrillas started the war; diplomats and politicians failed to end it; generals won it. Alas for the U.S., they were Hanoi's generals. When the last Americans left Saigon, they were fleeing not Victor Charlie in his black pajamas and Ho Chi Minh sandals but the uniformed and armored legions of North Viet Nam's army, then fifth largest in the world (now fourth, having supplanted India's army...
Chicago Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden was a college student in 1965 when he decided to hitchhike around Southeast Asia. Among his stops: Saigon. Ogden returned to Viet Nam in 1968 as a U.S. Army lieutenant with an intelligence unit. Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart served in South Viet Nam as a Foreign Service officer from 1966 to 1970, first as a civilian district adviser in the pacification effort in Long An province, south of Saigon, then in the capital. "I don't think I ever worked so hard or played so hard as in those years," says Stewart. "By the time...
...wave of North Vietnamese tanks coming toward us." Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott chronicled the dwindling American presence in Viet Nam in 1973-74. "It was possible, in those fading days of the war," he says, "to eat breakfast with my family, drive out of Saigon for a morning's action, then return for a gossipy lunch." William McWhirter, now bureau chief in Bonn, reported from Viet Nam for TIME and LIFE during several tours from 1965 on. He had his final assignment there in 1975, covering the South Vietnamese retreat from Hue down the coast...