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...reporters trying to cover North Viet Nam, the most sophisticated transportation is of little use: the country is hermetically sealed off to Americans and most other Westerners. For the WORLD cover story on Ho Chi Minh, The Jungle Marxist, TIME correspondents had to use patient intelligence methods-the legwork of the mind-which consisted largely of debriefing travelers, businessmen, diplomats, refugees. One of the hard facts about the North Vietnamese enemy, of course, is how independent he is of modern transportation, tirelessly moving along the forest trails. To rescue Asia from that enemy, said TIME...
Compared with the heigh-ho, collegiate approach of Vallee, today's crooner is a suave, smoky-eyed predator. His natural habitat is the supper club, his prey the middle-aged female. Cologned, imperially trim, hair sculptured and pomaded, he moves in the spotlight's golden glow like a young god, a smiling vision in pancake makeup, velvet-trimmed dinner jacket, and patent-leather shoes...
...hate for any of your readers to go away from TIME [June 25] believing that I am a gung-ho soldier or that I approve of the way the Army does many things. The Army in peacetime is still an unfortunate hybrid of feudalism and socialism, neither of which particularly appeals to me. I might add that I got into military broadcasting mostly by chance, and if I had known the odds against me last summer, I would never have volunteered for the draft...
...Viet Cong. After repeated messages, Phat finally arrived at the camp after Okamura had languished there more than a month. He was a short, wiry man with piercing eyes, a thin mustache and a crew cut, wearing a well-tailored khaki shirt and trousers, plus the standard "Ho Chi Minh sandals," cut from old tires. When Okamura complained that he had been robbed of his cameras, lied to and starved, Phat replied: "You have been lucky. We allow you five piasters (6½?) a day for your food. For our own soldiers it is two piasters...
President Johnson himself, weeks ago, disclosed his willingness to enter into "unconditional discussions" leading toward peace in Viet Nam. But he has also refused to negotiate with an enemy who refuses to negotiate except on his own absolute terms. North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh is just such an enemy-and he finds considerable cause for optimism in the argumentation now going on within the U.S. and between the U.S. and its allies. Last week he was quoted in Pravda as saying: "The American imperialists see that their isolation is increasing with each passing day. They...