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Reiterating the old communist-in-the-woodwork line, Martin says that he fears that Congress will not continue to give enough money to South Vietnam. He is afraid that an "economic takeoff" by the Saigon government towards independence from U.S. aid will be impeded by a "Hanoi-inspired propaganda campaign" which aims at turning Congress against the Nguyen Van Thieu government...
This clanging rhetoric drowns out certain facts. As has been universally reported, both the Communists and the Thieu forces have regularly violated the ceasefire. Nor is there any question that American equipment and know-how are still of help to Saigon's military machine. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott concludes that "on balance, Martin's elaborate rebuttal does little to demolish the Shipler story's central theme." Scott points out, though, that Shipler might have chosen one key word more carefully. It is difficult to prove that U.S. assistance "directly" supports violations, as Shipler argued...
...advocate of anything. It's a cliché, but the reporter's function is to observe and report. The story took shape only after a lot of legwork." Shipler also has his boss's support. When Times Managing Editor A.M. Rosenthal arrived in Saigon for a visit last week, he declined Martin's offer of an interview...
Largely because of Saigon's formidable adoption laws, fewer than 1,300 Vietnamese children have been allowed to come to the U.S. since 1965 (compared to some 32,000 Korean children since the end of that war). Would-be parents have waited as long as three years for a child. "With all the red tape, it's a discouraging process," says Patrick Tisdale of Columbus, Ga., father of five adopted South Vietnamese girls. A widowed physician with five sons, Tisdale met his second wife Betty in 1967 while he was an Army doctor in Viet...
Faced with a declining number of American babies available for adoption, more and more U.S. families are trying to adopt Vietnamese children despite the problems. The Holt adoption program alone receives 200 requests each week. Though the Saigon government still considers most of its abandoned children unadoptable (because a parent may still be alive), a few restrictions are being eased. The adoption waiting period has been reduced to five months or less, and an unofficial policy of keeping boys over seven within the country has been relaxed as well. Orphanage limitations against adoptions by parents of a particular faith have...