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...several months now," cabled TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "relations between the press corps and the military command in Saigon have grown chillier and chillier. With little combat reporting to be done, journalists have begun scrounging around base camps and rear areas, asking questions about drugs, fragging, phony decorations and morale. The Army has retaliated by refusing interviews, bird-dogging correspondents in the field, and generally administering the news with an eyedropper...
...American Command in Vietnam reported Friday morning (Saigon time) that U. S. reconnaissance teams are operating inside Laos. The command said that the patrols have been gathering information in Laos for years, and were merely continuing their work. U. S. troops are also flown into Laos to rescue downed reconnaissance helicopters, the command said...
...military sources in Saigon also confirmed reports that Americans are involved in clandestine reconnaissance activities in the Ho Chi Minh supply complex in Laos, and that these activities have been going on for at least 5 years...
Organized seven months ago to provide free civilian counsel for G.I.s in Viet Nam, the L.M.D.C. opened a three-man law office in Saigon headed by Henry Aronson, a leading civil rights lawyer who had been active in both Mississippi and New York. The Army indicated that it would cooperate. But soon after the L.M.D.C. represented three soldiers seeking conscientious-objector status (TIME, Nov. 23), Army cooperation vanished. A classified order directed all Army law offices in Viet Nam to submit monthly reports on L.M.D.C. activities-including "comments on compliance with ethical standards." Moreover, the Army refused...
Four of 233. "To someone who has never been in Saigon, these obstacles may seem small," reports TIME Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen. "In fact, they are gargantuan." In the company-town atmosphere of Viet Nam, the military has a near monopoly on most efficient forms of communication. Without military mail privileges, for example, a lawyer in Saigon who writes to his client upcountry can figure that his letter will be routed to the soldier's APO number in San Francisco. The letter will reach the soldier-perhaps a month later...