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...history. Through the 1950s, it was still a foreign conflict, and the cover subjects included Emperor Bao Dai, Ho Chi Minh (top two) and Ngo Dinh Diem. When a military coup felled Diem in 1963, Murray Gart, now chief of correspondents, watched some of the action from a Saigon rooftop. There was only one central cable office in Saigon then, and to avoid delay and censorship, Gart flew to Bangkok to file material for a cover story...
...Saigon, along with their colleagues in Washington and New York, had one basic mission: to explain a war that grew more baffling as well as more costly. We profiled the leaders of Saigon and Hanoi and the dissident Buddhist Thich Tri Quang. Cover stories on Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara and Lyndon Johnson charted Washington's goals and tactics, while two others on General William Westmoreland, who was Man of the Year for 1965 (middle), described the military strategy that seemed so promising then...
...divisions in Viet Nam still cut so deeply after a generation of warfare that no one could say with certainty that the fighting would soon cease. Yet last week's flurry of diplomatic maneuvering, from Key Biscayne to Saigon to Paris, gave every indication that for the U.S. peace finally was, indeed, "at hand." Declared a high U.S. official: "We are very close to a final agreement. I think there is no turning back...
...first child (Boulting's eighth), a son; in London. -Married. Nguyen Thi Tuan Anh, 19, only daughter of South Viet Nam's President Thieu; and Nguyen Tan Trieu, 28, son of the director general of Air Viet Nam, the national airline; both for the first time; in Saigon. -Died. Eugene L. Wyman, 48, Los Angeles attorney and Democratic leader whose political fund-raising skill brought millions into the campaign coffers of John and Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey; of an apparent heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. "I wish some new laws would...
Hayden said that despite the peace accord signed in Paris Saturday, the struggle in Vietnam was not over and opponents of the war should continue to oppose U.S. and to the Saigon government and any U.S. violations of the accord's provisions...