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- Apr. 30, 1990: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <p> Supposedly, the siege was over. The North Vietnamese had
- finally quit Prey Totung, a Cambodian crossroads town, and TIME
- correspondent Stanley W. Cloud went in to report the story. But
- within moments after a helicopter dropped Cloud and his
- photographer to the ground, they realized that the bullets were
- still flying. The pilot panicked and flew off, leaving the
- journalists in a schoolyard for two days while U.S.
- fighter-bombers "wasted" the area with napalm and explosives.
- </p>
- <p> That was 1971. Last month Cloud, 53, now Washington bureau
- chief, returned to Cambodia for the first time in 18 years. He
- sought out old friends and sources, including the jovial,
- rotund chef who used to serve a legendary souffle Grand Marnier
- in Phnom Penh's Cafe de Paris. Today the Cambodian capital's
- French restaurants are gone, but the chef survived the brutal
- Khmer Rouge years and has opened a far more modest Cambodian
- eatery where he still whips up a souffle. Says Cloud: "While
- it's only a pale imitation of the one he used to make, it must
- be regarded, under the circumstances, as a valiant try."
- </p>
- <p> Such perseverance is the theme of Cloud's account of Hout
- Seng, TIME's driver in Phnom Penh during the war. After an
- arduous escape from Cambodia, Seng and some of his family were
- confined in refugee camps in Thailand. With TIME's help, they
- were eventually able to settle in Washington, where Seng's son
- Neang, 28, is a photographer. He accompanied Cloud on his
- recent journey.
- </p>
- <p> Should the U.S. rethink its attitude toward Hanoi? Why does
- Washington support the murderous Khmer Rouge today? These
- questions are addressed in this week's issue. They will also
- be pursued in a joint ABC-TIME forum moderated by Peter
- Jennings this Thursday, April 26, at 11:30 p.m. EDT. Following
- a 10 p.m. ABC News special on Vietnam, Jennings, with Cloud,
- will lead a discussion of U.S. policy toward Indochina. Other
- guests will include Henry Kissinger, General William
- Westmoreland, Nebraska Senator and Vietnam veteran Robert
- Kerrey and former Lieut. William Calley, the U.S. commander
- during the My Lai massacre. The show should be a useful
- complement to TIME's report.
- </p>
- <p>-- Louis A. Weil III
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- </article>
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