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...biggest allied operation since the thrust into Cambodia, TIME'S correspondents ran up against a news blackout so complete that it seemed almost laughable. As Dewey Canyon II got under way, Saigon newsmen were briefed (in the truest sense of the word), told that all news was embargoed and then informed that even word of the embargo was embargoed. Still, by picking up a stray fact here, a veiled hint there and by sifting through previous information Larsen & Co. had arrived at a sketchy idea of what was going...
Nevertheless, by the time the embargo was finally lifted midweek, considerable detail was already flowing into New York, where Timothy James, who wrote the main narrative, was able to draw on his own knowledge from a previous trip to South Viet Nam. On-the-scene reportage came from James Willwerth, who hitched a plane ride from Saigon to I Corps, where he viewed the situation at Khe Sanh and Lang Vei, a point about three miles from the Laotian border. By now the final elements were falling into place as cables arrived from Stanley Cloud, who had flown from Bangkok...
...pointer in hand, he went on nationwide TV to disclose, in too apocalyptic terms, the expansion of the war into Cambodia. Last week he said nothing at all about the vast operation under way in Military Region I, South Viet Nam's northernmost war area. When a six-day "embargo" on news from the area was lifted, more than 50,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops were involved in strikes that not only spanned the length of South Viet Nam but vitally affected its neighbors as well. Was the main object to sever the famed Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...command not only slapped an embargo on news of Dewey Canyon, it also imposed an embargo on reporting the fact that an embargo had been imposed. In Washington only a handful of top policymakers knew what was up anyway. This time, there was none of the hour-by-hour agonizing at Camp David that contributed to the tense atmosphere in Washington during the Cambodian foray. Nixon, in fact, left for a long weekend at Caneel Bay in the Virgin Islands...
...make available to serious scholars and to all interested people a comprehensive collection of documents and study materials about revolutionary Cuba." The Center, still in the process of being formed, represents the effort of a group of scholars, writers and professionals, including myself, to offset the defacto embargo on information about contemporary Cuba in this country, an embargo which persists in the face of a steadily rising level of interest in the subject both on and off campus...