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Suddenly the war in Viet Nam was a big story again. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Peter Range was hardly back from covering the desperate situation in Cambodia when the South Vietnamese government decided to abandon a large portion of the country in a strategic withdrawal. After a hectic scramble for transportation, Range managed to cadge a seat on a flight to Danang, terminus for streams of refugees from the northern provinces. His eyewitness report accompanies this week's cover story...
Meanwhile, heavy reinforcements of journalists from round the world were deployed to Saigon to help cover Viet Nam's darkening struggle, as noted in this week's Press section. Among them were TIME'S newly appointed Tokyo bureau chief William Stewart, who spent 1966-70 "in country" with the State Department, and London correspondent William McWhirter, who reported the American buildup in Viet Nam for TIME from 1965 to 1967. Both got in touch with political and military sources to try to find out what the massive retreat would mean to President Thieu and his long-suffering...
While Naomi's strategy is self-destructive, Sut-On in "Dragon Lady" lashes out at others instead. A Chinese girl living near Saigon, Sut-On is unable to define a place for herself in either French or Vietnamese society so she becomes the Dragon Lady, exorcising her not-belonging through murder. "If her heart is remote," Kaplan writes, "she'd be the last one to know...
Despite its recent brief reappearance, the "domino theory" is not a sensible base for U.S. policy; if taken seriously and literally, it might well mean sending U.S. troops back into Indochina sooner or later. The dominoes immediately adjoining Viet Nam may well fall to Communism if the present Saigon government collapses, though what kind of Communism, with what admixture of neutralism or nationalism, is far from clear. Strategically, this would not matter very much to the U.S. The more remote dominoes that do matter-Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines-would probably not be seriously affected (see box page...
...Communists. General George Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, dispatched Major General John R.D. Cleland on a new fact-finding mission to the war area. Cleland roared off through the skies, and there were memories of General Maxwell Taylor and Walt Rostow swooping down on Saigon for Kennedy. The exhilaration of new crisis was evident all through BAWS...