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...undervalued currency." The Japanese were incensed, but went along with the pretense. At a televised news conference, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato looked uncharacteristically menacing as he complained that "there could not have been a more outrageous case of interference in domestic matters." Later, however, Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda added that for that very reason, he could not believe so experienced a diplomat as Trezise would commit such a faux...
...inside a Khmer-style house sitting high off the ground on stilts. A young Vietnamese appeared and squatted down beside me. In broken French, he asked who I was. I told him that and much more: "I am a journalist. I come in peace. Once, after a massacre at Takeo, I helped some of your people." He listened stolid-faced, then broke into a grin and slapped my leg. "I know," he said. "Thank...
...sizable engagement of the war, and was the first newsman to reach Siem Reap when the Communists were overrunning the temples at nearby Angkor. Anson's and TIME Stringer T.D. Allman's account of the massacre of more than 150 Vietnamese-born civilians in a schoolyard at Takeo last spring exposed the dark side of the government's campaign against the Vietnamese-and helped persuade the Phnom-Penh regime to take steps to prevent future atrocities...
...commanders could wage a conventional, European-style war of maneuver, using textbook tactics that the Communists chose not to test in determined combat. Only four days after Nine Dragons began, ARVN General Ngo Dzu's armored columns had effortlessly swept light Viet Cong forces from the towns of Takeo and Kompong Trach and the key ports of Kep and Kampot. Equally facile was ARVN Task Force 318's high-speed dash 75 miles down Highway 1 toward Phnom-Penh. TIME Correspondent John Mulliken joined General Tri as he directed the drive alternately from his helicopter...
...Allman, a freelance reporter for TIME and the Washington Post, agrees. As one of the newsmen who transported survivors out of Takeo, Allman adds: "When you see a child who's just been shot lying in front of you, and you know that unless you do something, the chances are he's either going to be left to die or be shot again, you don't have many choices. If you have a shred of morality in you, you have to do something...