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Getting other people in Saigon to talk was less easy. Correspondents Mohr and Jerrold Schecter had to resort to odd expedients in a capital caught up in a nasty war, where secret police crack down relentlessly on opponents and where fear is a feeling in the air. To one oppositionist source who dared not see them, they sent a messenger with questions typed on plain paper and got back typewritten answers with no signature...
Hong Kong Bureau Chief Mohr had planned a farewell party for Schecter, who is leaving for a year's Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Both found themselves wholly preoccupied with the Mme. Nhu story in Saigon, so the Hong Kong party for 48 guests took place last week without either the guest of honor or the host. But Mohr reassured Schecter (a father of five) that the hours spent with Mme. Nhu would at least leave him well prepared for dealing with "the callow girls of Radcliffe...
...fell to Jerry Schecter to cover the outer provinces-North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei-and he found it "the most fascinating assignment in nearly three years out here." He felt like James Brooke, the "white rajah," landing in Sarawak in the 18405 and seeing "what no educated eye had ever gazed on." In the jungle frontier, he retraced the steps of Conrad and was disconcerted to find characters still liv ing who might have stepped out of a Conrad novel...
...Schecter had his share of roughing it-on the ground, and in the air flying with Borneo Airways "over endless jungles in the worst storms in 30 years." But upcountry among the Ibans (or Sea Dyaks), whose life is simple, tedious and poor, he was greeted with a traditional welcoming ceremony called the bedara, offered a wine to appease the spirits he brought with him, and a brass bracelet to signify friendship. Schecter cabled home: "I suppose it's work, but camping in a longhouse with bare-breasted girls who gently tip cups of sweet rice wine to your...
...burden falls on Hong Kong. There, TIME Bureau Chief Stan Karnow presides over a tedious and essential operation akin to wartime intelligence gathering. He and Correspondents Jerry Schecter and Loren Fessler interview European and Asian businessmen who travel in and out of China, see diplomats down from Peking, pump the occasional Swiss journalist who gets a mainland visa. They keep a man posted at Kowloon railroad station to watch for arrivals from Canton; they get word of refugees arriving at Macao, and interview them-poor, haggard and inarticulate people who can tell of the rice ration in their own village...