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...horrors of that camp nearly defy description," says Neff. "Kennerly and I helped report the Viet Nam War, but we'd never seen anything remotely like this." In the first days only 14 reporters and photographers reached Jonestown, three from TIME. The third was Matthew Naythons, a practicing doctor from San Francisco who doubles as a news photographer. Naythons had been scheduled to accompany Congressman Ryan's party but had been held back by a visa problem...
...disaster points up the plight of Viet Nam's seaborne escapees
...having the same loyalty to the Shah that American officers have to the President of the U.S. Maybe if our recruits came in off the streets, with the mood of strikes and rebellion this past year, we'd be worried about fragging, the way it happened in Viet Nam with American captains and lieutenants getting killed off by their own men. But our troops aren't in a foreign place like Viet Nam. They're on their own soil, and they believe that what they are doing is protecting their own interests...
...outrunning a jackass in a 110-mile foot race. Turning up in Latin America, he was arrested in Chile while symbolically laundering an American flag outside the U.S. embassy. Then he moved on to Rome, where he starred in eight spaghetti westerns, and was arrested again in an anti-Viet Nam demonstration. During the 1960s, Reed also made several triumphant tours of the Soviet Union. Audiences there were impressed by his boyish good looks, syrupy baritone and eclectic repertoire of folk, rock and mellow protest songs. He soon had a huge following of Soviet fans, who considered him a "typically...
What pushes Same Time, Next Year from silliness into bad taste is the writer's pretentiousness. Not only does he trivialize marriage and sex for cheap one-liners, but he also manages to plunder the social history of three decades. In Slade's hands, even the Viet Nam War is a cue for hokey costume gags and mechanical changes of dramatic pace. The man has no shame...