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...networks provided live pictures from Viet Nam, but the costs did not seem worth it. NBC News spent an estimated $1.2 million for its live coverage, including four Today programs, with Bryant Gumbel as host, from Ho Chi Minh City. ABC News paid about the same, mostly for four Nightline shows from Indochina and reports on Good Morning America. CBS decided against live broadcasts, relying instead on taped segments (and spending only about $450,000). Howard Stringer, executive vice president of CBS News, said that his network believed live coverage in a restricted society like Viet Nam's promised...
...There were, of course, worthwhile, even admirable reports. NBC's John Hart did a thoughtful piece on a victory parade in Hue, pointing up the ambiguities of the celebration. CBS's Walter Cronkite returned to Viet Nam with Republican Congressman John McCain, a former prisoner of war, and revisited the place where McCain had been shot down and imprisoned. Today offered a moving segment on the plight of Amerasians in Viet Nam, the children fathered by American G.I.s and now treated as outcasts. Nonetheless, viewers could not be faulted if they felt they were seeing the country through a peephole...
...years, almost to the minute, after a U.S. helicopter whisked the last American officials out of Viet Nam at the end of a long and bloody war, the anniversary parade began. Along appropriately named 30th of April Street, in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, there flowed last week a motley assortment of patriotic props. Goose-stepping soldiers marched in front of children waving hoops and colored handkerchiefs. Leftover U.S.-made armored personnel carriers followed rumbling Soviet-built T-54 tanks. Roller skaters mingled with medal-bedecked veterans, motorcyclists, and workers bearing a picture...
Jubilant and eclectic, yet a little ragged with the tatterdemalion feel of a county fair, Viet Nam's show of national pride captured perfectly, if unwittingly, the country's paradoxical fate: having prevailed over a superpower, Viet Nam has yet to come wholly to grips with itself. The nine aging Politburo members who waved stiffly from a reviewing stand could relish the memory of how they had stripped the American Goliath of $150 billion, 58,022 lives and, for a while, some of its self-confidence. But ten years after its moment of glory, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam...
Even the staging of last week's festivities suggested that victory was, in some respects, Pyrrhic. To bring its triumph home to the world once again, xenophobic Viet Nam, which allowed all of 252 tourists to enter in 1983, welcomed 400 journalists and technicians from abroad, most of them American (see PRESS). To many observers, the willingness to accommodate the newsmen underlined Hanoi's eagerness to restore relations with Washington. For all its efforts, however, Viet Nam's peace offensive seemed unlikely to gain any ground...