Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American journalists, missionaries and others remained behind, as did six Americans in South Vietnamese jails. But the U.S. presence in Viet Nam can be said to have ended last Wednesday morning at 7:52 local time when a helicopter pilot radioed the final official message from Saigon: "Swift 22 is airborne with eleven passengers. Ground-security force is aboard...
Country Journal's rural urbanity has made it a swift success. Advertising revenues are running at more than double last year's pace, circulation has sprouted from a start-up 36,000 to more than 60,000, and an encouraging two-thirds of the magazine's charter subscribers are renewing. Blair and Ketchum predict that Country Journal will be in the black early next year, fast growth for a mere calf of a magazine...
Actually, what was imperiled by America's performance in South Viet Nam was not so much the nation's credibility as its aura of competence. The U.S. looked especially ineffectual in not anticipating just how weak its ally was. The swift collapse surprised U.S. intelligence officials. One of them admitted that in evaluating South Vietnamese military capability, "we obviously deluded ourselves." Added another intelligence officer: "When we looked below the surface, we did not like what we saw, so we turned away...
...could it happen?" a stunned South Vietnamese official wondered last week. "I just don't see how it could happen." His bafflement was shared by much of the world after the swift collapse of Saigon's fighting forces with almost no resistance in the face of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. With rare exceptions, the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (ARVN) did not even stand its ground and fight, dissolving instead into panic and flight in a historic military debacle...
...South Viet Nam, the swift advance of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops made venturing outside Saigon a dangerous proposition. Yet as days went by, the suffering, disintegration and chaos in outlying areas became at least as important a subject for coverage as anything happening in the capital. "It's getting easier to get a candid view from high-ranking military officers now," said New York Times Correspondent Malcolm W. Browne. "But there is a fatalistic belief that nothing they say or do matters any more." Still, added Associated Press Bureau Chief George Esper, "you have to be present...