Word: saigon
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...Only Saigon benefited from the fighting in Cambodia, which diverted North Vietnamese troops and thus gave South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu a chance to consolidate his military and political position. Instead of keeping Cambodia nonCommunist, the American incursion helped catalyze the minuscule pro-Communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas into a movement of na tional scope. It pushed Prince Norodom Sihanouk, a dedicated neutralist who was overthrown as Cambodia's ruler in spring 1970, reluctantly into the hands of Hanoi and Peking...
...area of control in the South is sparsely populated, they have begun encouraging thousands of North Vietnamese civilians, many of them former Southerners, to come South to settle. This will create a population loyal to Hanoi and secure the area as a base for future military attacks against Saigon's forces. The settlers will also be an important addition to the already existing Communist political structure in the South, should the struggle between Saigon and Hanoi shift to a purely political arena, as envisioned by the Paris accord...
...correspondents cover every word of the hearings. David Beckwith, himself a lawyer, spends almost five hours a day sitting virtually at each witness's left hand, watching and taking notes on the testimony (almost 6,000 pages so far). Former Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud concentrates primarily on the members and staff of the Ervin committee. Senior Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil amasses political reactions to Watergate and also serves as our constitutional expert...
Sealed Orders. Whoever was responsible apparently did not feel that the Pentagon's normal channels of secrecy would sufficiently guard the Cambodia bombing. Major Knight said that bombing orders in sealed, unmarked envelopes were secretly flown from Saigon by propeller-driven courier aircraft each afternoon before a raid. They were kept under lock and key until dusk-the missions were flown at night to avoid detection-then transmitted by radio to the approaching...
...selling their heroin-which they refine from the morphine derivative of raw opium-to the burgeoning markets among the G.I.s in Viet Nam and elsewhere in the West. One kilo of pure heroin-which sells for $300 at the Burma-Thai border-is worth at least $3,000 in Saigon, $10,000 in Marseille and $50,000 in New York City...