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McWhirter, who joined TIME after graduating from Princeton University in 1963, is a seasoned observer of social upheavals. He was stationed in Saigon during the last days of the American involvement in Viet Nam and reported on Iran from the overthrow of the Shah until the arrival of Ayatullah Khomeini. Before moving to Miami to take charge of TIME's new Caribbean bureau last fall, he served for 3½ years as bureau chief in Johannesburg, a base from which he covered the painful birth of Zimbabwe as a nation. While he traced the subtle web of oppression...
...protest placards at town meetings and wrote angry letters equating the spraying with the use of the defoliant Agent Orange in Southeast Asia. Said Mayor Alan Henderson of Palo Alto, one of the cities that refused to permit the spraying: "This is the strongest outpouring of feeling since the Viet...
...months in 1966 and '67 Corson served as commander of 3,500 men in 114 platoons spread out in hamlets across five provinces in South Viet Nam. Corson firmly believed that Americans first had to win the trust of the villagers if the war was to be won. Disillusionment set in when the Pentagon began stressing body counts and adopted what he calls a "strategy of attrition." He was especially incensed over the search-and-destroy missions ordered by General William C. Westmoreland. Corson argues that the missions not only failed to destroy the enemy but devastated the Vietnamese...
...Corson was reassigned to a desk job at the Pentagon, and proceeded to write The Betrayal, a blistering attack on U.S. military strategy in Viet Nam and the corruption of the Saigon government. Corson was scheduled to retire the day before the book was published, but a task force was convened to comb its pages for security violations; suddenly he was threatened with a court-martial. That threat passed, though Corson got a "nonjudicial reprimand." Since his retirement he has kept his sense of outrage over how the grunt was treated both in Viet Nam and at home. "We barely...
...American opposition. Two of them Benigno Aquino and Raul Manglapus sent a telegram to Bush from their American exile, appealing to him not to identify the U.S. with the present government, Marcos, on the other hand, pointedly and publicly reminded Bush of the Philipines' continuing friendship, "even after Viet Nam, when it was almost impossible...