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FROM the moment of departure, the tour of National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was understated, underpublicized and played with such casual routine that the press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2½ days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...
...Another rare public expression of discontent came in a letter last week to President Nixon. Signed by the relatives of six prisoners, the letter urged Nixon not to reject Hanoi's offer in order to ensure the survival of the Saigon government: "We fear that we will spend years chasing the light at the end of the tunnel, while for our men in the prison camps, one by one the light will go out forever...
...having much more difficulty rounding up his endorsements because he is going after the provincial councilmen, all of whom are beholden to Thieu-appointed province chiefs. If Ky is shut out of the race, the current Saigon speculation goes, he will throw his support to Minh just before the election. Another possibility is that both Ky and Minh will pull out at the last minute, leaving Thieu a hollow victory...
...Saigon is thus uneasy about reports that Washington is anxious to accelerate the U.S. withdrawal. During his stop in Saigon last week, Henry Kissinger assured President Nguyen Van Thieu that the U.S. is not about to "pull the plug." But he also warned Thieu that the U.S. withdrawal rate, now 14,300 a month, will probably jump to 20,000 after South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...
...fact, along with continuing dissection of the Pentagon papers, new debate was mounting over whether the press could be faulted for not pinpointing key Administration actions much earlier. It could have, argued Barry Zorthian, president of TIME-LIFE Broadcast, who was the Government's information chief in Saigon from 1964 to 1967. "Most competent journalists in Viet Nam at the time had a knowledge of at least the main points of the Pentagon papers-and in many cases much more," he wrote in the Times. "What the correspondents-and their editors-did with this information is quite another question...