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April 28, 1975/ 75 cents , .nr• . 7 4- ,c..w=itri6040 1' q0744' ,; • • ••■ - aka • t - • .;".1.411„ ••••••••.- • y - *a.'" 74-rwarr Top of theWeek Newsweek The Last Battle P•oe 16 History dealt America one of its ironies last week. At the moment that the U.S. began celebrating the Bicentennial of its fight for independence, two nations it struggled to help were in the process of losing theirs. As Gerald Ford stood with a group dressed up in Minuteman uniforms in Concord. Ma, South Vietnamese soldiers stood in the rubble of Yuan Luc and prepared for their country's last battle. Newsweek corre- spondent Nicholas C. Proffitt and photographer 1Nik Wheeler were the first Western journalists to rover the fighting in Xuan 1.41c—it deathtrap that could become the Dienbienplio of 1975_ ev, sweek cover photo by Hiroji Kubota—Nlagnu tat. Operation Baby Lift In recent weeks. hundreds of South Vietnamese orphans have been brought to the U.S for adoption by Americans. Some have called it a sop for national guilt feelings, some see it as an stet of humanity. Columnists Shona Alexander (page 88) Proffitt at Xuan Lac: No longer a city, now a killing ground and Meg Greenfield (page 31) take two different points of view. Inquest on JFK Page 36 Once again, an odd-lot as- -ortment of conspiracy theo- rists is picking through the evidence in the John F. Ken- nedy assassination file—the film frames, the bullet- a lid bullet fragments. lily witness accounts—end spin- ning it all into ever more elaborate theories about who NORTHROP killed JFK. and why. Are they on to something—or does the Bribes Galore? Page 70 Warren commission's judg- ment that a loner named Lee The illegal corporate cam- Harvey Oswald was the sob Connors with Sonventre: Superstardom and 5250,000 paign contributions of Water- assay sin still stand the test of gate may be peanuts com- more than a decade's time".' Bad Boy of Tennis Paget 52 pared with the bribes that some companies st-c king bus- A boastful, bumptious brat named Jimmy Connors, 22, will iness abroad dole out to for- meet Australia's 30-year-old John Newcombe at Caesars Palace eigners. Three Federal agen- in Las Vegas this week in a .5250.1)00 contest that could confirm cies are inquiring into what Connors's rule as the newest superstar of te nnis. With reports one official called -corrup- from Associate Editor Peter Bonventre, Sports editor Pete tion on a staggering scale." The JFK file: A murder bullet Axthelm profiles the contenders and previews the match. Contents April 28, 1975 THE WAR IN INDOCHINA . „ 16 SPORTS 52 "Sneaky People," by Thomas Berger Shots heard round the world Jimmy Connors: bad boy of tennis "A City on a Hill" by George V. Higgins The last battle "Japan: the Fragile Superpower," by Frank NEWS MEDIA 61 Escape from Xuan Loo Gibney The Timesman in Phnom Penh Blood bath? THEATER 85 Operation Talon Vise SCIENCE ........... , ...... 64 Ingrid Bergman on Broadway White flags over Phnom Penh The cooling world Bette Midler is back Portrait Of the vectors BUSINESS AND FINANCE 67 NATIONAL AFFAIRS ......... ... 32 OTHER DEPARTMENTS Winds of recovery Letters 4 Ford and the Bicentennial Profits: that sinking feeling Freeing Connally On Scene 10 Bribes: new Investigations Periscope 15 A White House press dust-up Superfong cigarettes JFK: the oonsperacy theory again Newsmakers 50 Autos: Townsend's travail Transition 63 INTERNATIONAL ............. • - 39 AirWries: the frill is back A shoot-out in Lebanon THE COLUMNISTS Israel's new let fighter UFEiSTYLE 86 My Turn: Peer de Silva 13 More on Chiles torture chamber; Lost parents Meg Greenfield 31 Sikkim absorbed Community crops Clem Margarita 75 Shane Alexander 88 MEDICINE ........... 51 THE ARTS Meditation therapy i BOOKS ..... ............... a1975 by Newsweek. Inc., 444 Madison Ave- Umbrella for the heart "Sharclik". about a mythic bear nue, New York, N.Y. 10022. At rights reserved. OS 3 Letters The Vietnam Debacle It is obvious that the South Vietnamese are suffering because the believed in the American will to fight against oppression. am alarmed and embarrassed at my gov- ernment's apathy toward the South Viet- namese people. For our Bicentennial, I think we should fly the Stars and Stripes at half-staff the entire CLYDE WAILNER • Those eighteen holes the President played while living high off the hug in plush Palm Springs (NATiotstAt. AFFAIRS, April 14) were obviously not on the links but in his head. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Ford putted while Da Nang col- lapsed. What kind of leadership is this? MARY-GENE MARR Lagima Beach, Calif. ▪ We should rid ourselves of guilt about -betrayal.** We did our best; we poured in help equal to the combined budgets of Kodak shapes up the malty nations, and we made the supreme s.wrifice Ufa heavy toll in lives. movie projector. J. ZAEustA • In covering the tragic Vietnam story, you failed to make it absolutely clear that the You'll wonder where the reels have gone when refugees are fleeing war, nut the Commu- nists. They are "voting with their feet-- you first look at the Kodak Moviedeck projector. butvnting to escape bombing, shelling and the unknown that -a massive transition in They're there, of course. But Kodak's found a way government control brings. to keep them inside. out of T. E. Flu.Tos the way. Brook N.Y. That's what helps make • %%len President Ford signed the has. bill. he said the budget had reached its limit— the Moviedeck projector wit one enure red cent would he spent to aid the American people. But he expects so handsome. So conve- the American people to shell out a billion nient, too. Because you don't more dollars for a cornipt dictator on the other side of the world. have to put it away between DAvE KESSELFUNt; shows. Dover, Del. The three top models • Re the agony of South Vietnam, may 'sug- gest that" honorableile mention-be given the at,1 VeteCtiGn of the Moviedeck projector aggressor, North Vietnam, without whom have a special pull-out viewing screen. So you can this holocaust would not he possible? INES K.. HORTON preview your movies without ever having to set up Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. a big screen or dim the room lights. Leary's Progress Kodak Moviedeck projectors—all handsome, these times of so much depressing all self-threading. all easy to use. all for 8 mm or news, I was disappointed that your March 1(1 issue printed a heavier than necessary super 8 movies —start at less than $110. Some haVe report about my current transitions. automatic rewind and multiple projection speeds. I was not paroled, but released from California custody. The Federal sentence Model 455 shown is less than $200. See your I am serving was not for smuggling but for photo dealer. Pr,ccit are stJetect in change tvoncneeniKe 141%-wswaxa.,5ptil 2E, 1975. Volume I.XXXV. No. 17, NEWSWirek it publtitted weekly. 519.50 a yejS, by NitWSWItEk, Primed in U.S.A. 5;email.C.Ltsi pedalo- p.ud ae New Ysok. N.Y. and at adrift:wed The Kodak Moviedeck =aging offseel.. CC Regiatrado coral) articular de aegrioda dase en 1.1. projector AdnoutstraaVIP Central tie Current air ette.t l'Apstat coo fecha 17 de mow de 1944, 1deako. 11.1- POSTNIAS'I ENS: Scud foam .1579 to NrAt.awa:10a. The NLIA hWF.Y.Ii. Nuildine Livinttion, N.1. 07(I39. My Turn Peer de Silva God Bless the CIA An a -title appeared in this space a few rolled and guided by the Soviet Union has ilCuit misrepre- JM. t, CrkS ago entitled -Abolish du- and its executive intelligence arm, the sented as a -sport.- e: IA!- it began by describing: in son- KGB. There were murders. killitApingS While I regret not eonsiderable detail the Vh•t Cm mg bomb- amill hundreds of other at Is of violence line minute of my ing of the American Eselyass1/4 I it Saigon and terror, perpetrated la- the Soviet servit-t- with the its nail I was the CLA chit•I of stilt im nm Union and its allies of EitNtl'rti Europe. CIA, at home or that time. I have a diner( ot perspective Nations were dominated.ilscratened and ..sbroach I must say I Oil a hat happened that morning and on overthrown, and whole peoples were never considered it the wav Americans should lie thinking thrust into a form of political society' that to be a sport. There a ere moments of ■knl t the CIA these days. they detested and that they fled when- great hilarity, local: periods of tedium and The American Embassy WAN ever opportmitity presented itself. hard, slogging work. amid oecasim thi-1111,1-(1 0111 March 30. 1%5, he a Viet Those .,oho now say that the told war moment] ofaeute terror. Coat; terrorist si marl who packed mild never really happened have apparently The foreign operations of the CIA sedan with about 350 pounds of forgotten or but t• clam'-en to forget how must exist to carp.' out certain tasks in the plastic explosive and then rolled the ear the present Polish Ctinuntmist state was American notion's i n terests that the dip- up under my window in the embassy. established, or how the delyuestration of lomatic st-n t-,ionot do a nd that our They set off a tin e-peneil detonator, Eduard lie rigs in Prague iii 1-P-114 sig- military estald ed 'went cannot do short of began a fire fight with local police oil die naled the disappearance ola democratic ...var.