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...heavy reportorial action last week confined to the war. Covering the tide of student strikes and riots sweeping across the nation, San Francisco's Bill Marmon sadly noted that the violence at Berkeley "helped ease the cultural shock of coming home after 18 months in Viet Nam"-particularly when an enraged cop walloped him with his billy club while dispersing a crowd. The rage on both sides was especially evident to TIME'S campus "stringers" (part-time correspondents). "Watching one's friends throw rocks at police and reporters and wandering about the campus in eerie clouds...
...city. Last March, a farmer stumbled on a piece of wire; when he tugged at it, a skeletal hand rose from the dirt. The government immediately launched a search operation. "There were certain stretches of land where the grass grew abnormally long and green," TIME Correspondent William Marmon reported last week from Hue. "Beneath this ominously healthy flora were mass graves, 20 to 40 bodies to a grave. As the magnitude of the finds became apparent, business came to a halt and scores flocked out to Phu Thu to look for long-missing relatives, sifting through the remains of clothes...
...with President Nixon. The U.S. these days is anxious to get out of Southeast Asia, not to get in deeper. Reflecting that mood, Senator Stuart Symington next week will begin hearings on the American involvement in Laos. To gauge the U.S. presence there, TIME Correspondents David Greenway and William Marmon visited the kingdom twice in recent weeks. Their report...
...staff includes a varied crew of correspondents. Bureau Chief Marsh Clark is a Middle Westerner who was political editor of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat before coming to TIME. Wallace Terry, who will soon go to Harvard as a Nieman Fellow, is an ordained Disciples of Christ minister. William Marmon, a Virginian with a Princeton degree, once taught school in Greece. John Wilhelm, a Florida native, used to be a TIME correspondent in Washington. Chicago-born Burton Pines studied at the University of Wisconsin and was working in Heidelberg on his Ph.D. in history when he was hired by TIME...
...members fanned out across the nervous countryside for their report on the status of the war, the Saigon bureau was as thorough in its research as those palace guards. Clark, Wallace Terry, John Wilhelm, William Marmon, Burton Pines and the bureau's two Vietnamese reporters put together remarkably detailed files for the story that was written by William Doerner, researched by Sara Collins, and edited by Jason McManus. The men in the field interviewed soldiers and civilians, intellectuals and politicians. At the battle front and in the rocket-torn cities, in schools and on the Senate floor, they conducted...