Word: zorthian
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Abandonment is a word that echoes through the Rand study, and the Vietnamese argue that U.S. withdrawal left them not only short of supplies but psychologically helpless. As Barry Zorthian, former minister-counselor for information of the American embassy in Saigon, said after reading the Rand study: "It pulls together the inherent contradictions in our relationship, that love-hate. There was a Vietnamese way of doing things and an American way of doing things. And we did neither." One of the Vietnamese officials concluded more tersely: "To sum up, the war was lost from its inception...
...briefings were originally designed to give reporters clear, concise summaries of widely scattered action. They grew out of casual sessions started by Barry Zorthian, a former Voice of America official, after he became head of press relations in the U.S. mission in Viet Nam. Now a Time Inc. vice president, Zorthian recalls that until he arrived on the scene, there had been no regular briefings. Gradually the 5 O'Clock Follies evolved into a strange show that satisfied no one. "The military instinct," says Zorthian, "was always to provide less rather than more. Many times the information we gave...
...fact, along with continuing dissection of the Pentagon papers, new debate was mounting over whether the press could be faulted for not pinpointing key Administration actions much earlier. It could have, argued Barry Zorthian, president of TIME-LIFE Broadcast, who was the Government's information chief in Saigon from 1964 to 1967. "Most competent journalists in Viet Nam at the time had a knowledge of at least the main points of the Pentagon papers-and in many cases much more," he wrote in the Times. "What the correspondents-and their editors-did with this information is quite another question...