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...concerns that haunts U.S. servicemen fighting that war in far-off Viet Nam is the nagging thought that people back home do not appreciate what they are doing and how much it can mean to the free world. Bridging the distance, in both miles and mind, between the warriors and the people they are fighting for is one of the responsibilities of good journalism. In the three years since the struggle in Viet Nam reached the proportions of war, TIME, in addition to its regular coverage, has had three cover stories on military commanders in the area: General Paul Harkins...
Racial hatreds plague all Asian nations, which present a vast, graduated racial spectrum, from the blonde ethnic Russians of bleak Sinkiang through the anthracite Tamils of India and Ceylon, whose daughters were of such black velvety loveliness that in World War II lonely American servicemen were wont to sigh, "I'd walk a mile for a Tamil." Now a new G.I. generation is entranced by Saigon's graceful Cochinchinoises but is surprised to find Asian girls just as sensitive to racial nuances as the snobbiest New Orleans debutante...
Miami-based Deltona Corp. set up an office in Frankfurt in 1963 to tap a market among U.S. servicemen overseas, now finds that sales to Europeans are as high as those to Americans. Europeans have bought $1,250,000 worth of lots at Deltona developments near Daytona Beach and on San Marco Island off Florida's west coast. A Nürnberg accountant named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been...
...week's end the Viet Cong demonstrated just how unwilling they were to do so. In a broadcast aired by their clandestine radio, the guerrillas warned U.S. servicemen that they would soon "pay more blood debts." The U.S., in its new mood of resolve, might see to it that the Communists of North Viet Nam are made to pay enough that they cannot afford to continue their aggression and subversion...
...Unlimbering his camera, he snapped a comprehensive image of the destruction, pausing only to help carry a wounded U.S. soldier to safety. He sent the pictures home, along with cabled eyewitness accounts, and he also fulfilled another self-assigned combat responsibility: he relayed messages to the wives of U.S. servicemen on duty at Pleiku, assuring them that their husbands had come through unharmed...