Word: saigon
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...covering the world's wars in 1942 as a correspondent for the United Press in the Mediterranean theater. Then, broadening his scope, he cabled his battlefield and political reports to TIME from Indochina and the Middle East. Mecklin's service as U.S. Public Affairs Officer chief in Saigon from 1962 to 1964 provided the background for his book, Mission in Torment, a widely praised account of the Viet Nam conflict's early years. Later, he became a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors...
...American officer in Viet Nam called it "a piddling platoon action." But to the millions of Americans who saw TV film clips of the daring attack by a Viet Cong demolition squad on the U.S. embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war." So did many of his countrymen, who had taken at face value General William Westmoreland's expansive claim, a few weeks before...
...Vietnamese resistance should be taken at its word. Liberation forces have killed over 55,000 American troops since 1961 (14,092 since Nixon took office). Each week Vietnamese patriots kill 560 American and Saigon troops. But the price for their stubborn resistance has been high. One and a half million Vietnamese have died trying to expel the American invaders and their fascist puppets. Eight million Vietnamese, Laotians, and Cambodians are homeless. Twenty per cent of Vietnam's land mass has been defoliated by America's war against vegetation...
...national liberation forces of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia will be trying to kill American and Saigon troops tomorrow, just as they have had to kill Chinese, French, Spanish, and Japanese troops in their thousand-year struggle to be free...
...demonstrates why commercial broadcasting, now a half-century old, remains "Babbitt at 50." The moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex; that, too, is killed...