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VOL. 69. NO. 2 LIFE JULY 10, 1970 CONTENTS EDITORS' NOTE Cambodia: The Wreck We Leave Behind 23 U.S. fighting men have gone and Cambodians must cope not only with the Communists but with South Four photographers Vietnamese and Thais. Meanwhile, the quiet American presence begins to grow. A report by John Saar go jungle-busting Editorial 32 This issue contains a lead story on Cambodia which includes Corre Vietnam: Enough is finally enough spondent John Saar's report on the chaos there. He cables: Record-breaking China Doll 34 "The submergence of seven million basically peaceful people and a A pretty track whiz from Taiwan has lost only two beautiful country by instant war was a tragic story thatwe urgently want of her last 121 races ed to tell. Yet even with four photographers on the road, two in Viet nam and two in Cambodia, it proved maddeningly difficult. Battering The Mop Comes Back 36 deep into Cambodia at speeds Rommel would have admired, the South The renaissance of a hairy 16th Century dog Vietnamese armored columns were hard to catch. As they surged on from battle to battle, the shadowy ranks of the NVA closed behind The Godfather's Father 41 them to put important scenes beyond our safe reach. Capture at one of Author Mario Puzo can afford to live it up at last. the NVA's lightning roadblocks seemed the likeliest hazard, but when Photographed by Bob Peterson trouble came, it flew from the tube of a Russian-made rocket launcher. "Photographer Bob Whitaker was riding on a tank. 'Bang,' he says. Special Season of the Young 46 'A rocket exploded on the gun turret and blew Hot days lure exuberant beauties to California's beaches. me to the ground. I was hit although 1didn't know Photographed by Co Rentmeester it.' Whitaker, a London-based free lance who was once official photographer to the Beatles, was %• Parole Board 54 seriously wounded inthechest and thigh. Jungle- When convicts plead for early release, three good men busting with the troopers of the 11th Armored with little to guide them must answer "yes" or "no." By Donald Jackson Cavalry Regiment was a quantum leap from Whitaker's usual show biz beat, and after only An Extra House To Play In 66 four weeks in Vietnam he was pale, gauntand 24 The cost of new vacation homes is lower than pounds lighter. He was flown home before he you'd think could gethis pictures [asoldier picked uphis cam era and took the one shown here]. DEPARTMENTS "Philip Jones Griffiths, another British pho tographer, raced north to the Fishhook to take The Presidency Flickers of hope in the heat. 4 By Hugh Sidey over the assignment. A loquacious Welshman Gallery Simon Nathan's alphabet photographs with two years' experience of Vietnam, Griffiths 8 is not renowned for his patience. Unableto abide WOUNDED WHITAKER i Reviews 10-16 the delays and uncertainties of Vietnamese-flown helicopters, he wedged Three books on the environment are reviewed by his six-foot figure into Life's blood-red minijeep and drove off over the in Wallace Stegner: Paul Shepard and David McKinley's The Subversive Science; The secure Cambodian roads. Later, when his speeding broke the engine, he Environmental Handbook, edited by Garrett De Bell; 'borrowed' a real Jeep to get back in the action. 'Griffiths,' as the cur and Ecotactics, the Sierra Club Handbook rent Saigon joke has it, 'takes pretty good pictures for a car thief.' for Environment Activists "In Phnom Penh, Dick Swanson had an eerie sense dejci vu. He has Albert Goldman reviews the Who's gap-bridging rock been covering Vietnam for Life since 1965. He went through the Tet as concert at the Met sault on Saigon; now he was waiting for asimilar attack on another cap ital. As the threat of a battle for the city receded, Swanson wangled a Letters to the Editors 22A secuiity pass to Phnom Penh's airfield and covered the first Cambodian Parting Shots Where she stops nobody knows 72 army combat assault from Vietnamese helicopters. "When UPI's Japanese photographer Kyoichi Sawada stopped to take © 1970 TIME INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE pictures of South Vietnamese looters, he was threatened by angry sol OR PART WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED diers who demanded his film. He coolly refused and walked off." The pic ture appears on pages 26-27. 24,M^lc'pHIM^^I'cmFFITHVpK^jT25-PHILIPJ. 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