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...Green Bay Packers. Three years later, "Broadway Joe" was the American Football League Rookie of the Year, and Clark, like many pro fans in those days, regarded the new league and its most colorful star lightly. "But one day in 1969, when I was bureau chief in Saigon," Clark says, "I set the alarm for 4 a.m. to listen to the Armed Forces Radio broadcast of the Super Bowl game between the Jets and the Colts. Joe made a believer...
Despite peace rumors emanating from Paris and Saigon, McGovern said that he feared that four more years of the Nixon administration would bring only continued...
Angelo's reporting from the road went to Associate Editor Jonathan Larsen, who wrote the story. For Larsen, who recently served as our Saigon bureau chief, writing about the feminine side of presidential politics offered an interesting contrast. "In Viet Nam," he says, "the wives of some politicians are their husbands' silent business partners, and often you hear about them only when a scandal breaks. Here they have become vocal members of the team and must go on display for public approval. The American wives have it tougher...
Seizure and censorship have long been the unhappy lot of Saigon's newspaper publishers. Now the government of South Viet Nam has assumed the power to put them out of business altogether. Last week the number of daily newspapers in the country stood at 29, after 13 folded from failure to meet strict new financial requirements imposed by President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...past included such sins as reprinting military reports from the foreign press-even when those reports have been cleared by Vietnamese censors. Trial is before a military court, which can also impose jail sentences with no appeal. Decree 007 presented a put-up-or-shut-down dilemma for Saigon publishers, most of whom operate on a shoestring. Thieu's intent was twofold. For the short term, he wanted to kill outright at least some antigovernment papers. Looking further ahead, he wanted to use his temporary decree power to restrict leftist propaganda opportunities in the event that a cease-fire...