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Cooperman, like many college professors and students at the time, was an outspoken opponent of the Viet Nam War. But his interest in the country, which bordered on obsession, outlived America's controversial involvement. In 1977, two years after the fall of Saigon, Cooperman made the first of about a dozen trips to Viet Nam. Upon his return, he founded the nonprofit Committee for Scientific Cooperation with Vietnam, through which he publicly lobbied for normal diplomatic and trade relations with the new pro-Soviet regime...
...fiction in getting to the quick of things. That seems totally appropriate to a so-called rock-'n'-roll war. Perhaps an enterprising producer might put together an album anthology of a dozen of the best Viet Nam songs (Run Through the Jungle, Fortunate Son, Still in Saigon); the profits might fittingly benefit a Viet Nam veterans organization. Shut Out the Light could stand proud as the centerpiece of any such collection...
...According to the 90-min. broadcast, Westmoreland's command, in its reports to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, estimated Viet Cong strength at about 300,000. Many intelligence operatives believed the true figure was closer to 500,000. The program also charges that the Saigon command withheld information about the nearly 25,000 North Vietnamese troops suspected of infiltrating the South each month. These grim statistics were purportedly suppressed in order to foster the image that the U.S. was whining...
Part of the reporting assignment fell to another onetime Canadian bureau chief, Gavin Scott. He joined TIME as a correspondent in his home town of Montreal in 1959 and then served in Ottawa for 1½ years before moving on to Buenos Aires, Madrid, Boston, Beirut, Saigon and San Francisco. Scott's current beat is South America, which he covers from Rio de Janeiro, but he was on vacation in the village of Georgeville, Quebec, last month when it became apparent that Mulroney could win big. Scott quickly revved up and did some intensive pulse-taking of government officials...
...markedly different, common threads run through much of their testimony. They seem united in the conviction that the U.S. could have won the war: "With all the American G.I.s that were in Viet Nam, they could have put us all shoulder to shoulder and had us march from Saigon all the way up to the DMZ. Just make a sweep." Those who raise the subject agree that racism vanished on the front lines: "In the field, we had the utmost respect for each other, because when a firefight is going on and everybody is facing north...