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...note the advantages the Americans offer along with their gift of war. "The war has provided Vietnam with paved highways from end to end, with more airfields than it can possibly use, with spectacular harbors, with an elaborate communications system, with power plants, and with potable water in Saigon," he explains, adding, "While it is impossible to make an accurate inventory of the changes in the infrastructure during the war, the impression is inescapable that the plusses greatly outweigh the minuses...
...past 18 years has helped expand the network of Teletype, telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities that serves Time Inc.; since 1962, he has added Bangkok, Singapore, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi and Beirut to the list of bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need for our own direct hook up between Manhattan and Jerusalem, Striker installed a telex...
...many seasoned correspondents in Saigon, the U.S. will inescapably be seen as the chief loser in the one-man presidential election race. After years of official assurances from Washington that democracy was at work in South Viet Nam, Richard Nixon recently-and accurately-declared that true democracy was "generations" away. Nor had it been brought closer by U.S. policy in recent months. From Saigon, TIME's Bureau Chief Jon Larsen cabled this assessment...
Host at a small dinner at his Saigon villa last spring, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker allowed as how western-styled democracy had been "grafted" onto the autocratic, family-oriented society of South Viet Nam. One of his guests joked, "Mr. Ambassador, why do you use the word graft, when it has so many connotations in this country?" Bunker smiled and replied, "Because I do not want to use the word imposed...
Order and Security. Thieu appeared well prepared for any opposition at home, though anything could happen in the week before the election. National police were stationed throughout Saigon, ready to put down any anti-government protests as soon as they started. Police blocked off and occupied the sprawling 30,000-student Saigon University complex amid reports that disabled war veterans, students, militant Buddhists and radical Catholics were coordinating plans for demonstrations...