VOL. 68 NO. 17 MAY 8, 1970 COrlTENTS LIFE EDITDRS' NOTE The Perils of Cambodia 36 What's happening to Vietnam's neighbor looks like a natural for U.S. military aid—but look closer. Any answers must be for all ofSoutheast Asia. Spooky trips By Kenneth T. Young The Nixon Ladies 42 through silent, empty See how they will look in their new summer dresses landscapes AFlaming Dash for Life 46 Editorial 48 Two staffers in our Hong Kong bureau worked on this How "relevant" is the U.N.? week's lead story on the turmoil in Cambodia—Photog rapher Larry Burrows, who has probably had more bat 49 The Man from 'The Boys in the Band' tlefield experience in Southeast Asia than any other Jour Now Actor Cliff Gorman is in demand for nalist in the world, and Reporter John Saar, a tall, loose- tough-guy roles jointed Englishman. Saar arrived in Vietnam 18 months 52 ago, and is by now a seasoned war correspondent. But The Santa Cruz Experiment both of them found the wildly unstable conditions in An old idea in higher education takes on new life Cambodia a new—and perilous—experience. inCalifornia and some other huge universities follow suit. "Nobody hassles us, everybody listens, "As soon as Larry and I arrived in Phnom Penh," ca bled Saar, "press corps friends who had got there before by Barbara Villet us took us aside to warn us; 'Whatev Don't Get Spiro Agnew Wrong 64 er you do, be very careful. This is not ' He speaks for the Silent Majority and his stock speech like Vietnam.' k a Talking-To. Afriendly consideration ofthe "Indeed it is not. Officials here do ViL plesiden. by Brock Bro«er, not seem to share the journalists' com 79 pulsion to find out what's happening Isn's Bc'ln in the countryside, so the rule is 'news Aflamboyant flautist named Anderson makes the Jethro men up front.' There are none of the Tull group rock trappings of security that surround re White Rulers of an Icy Realm 82 porters in Vietnam. Ten newsmen have Beset by hunters and a narrowing range, polar bears already been captured by the Vietcong, •uggle to survive. Photographed by Co Rentmeester and everyone has tales of narrow es capes which they exchange as they departments lounge round the pool at Phnom Penh's Column Nine bike movies in seven Vroom! days. Royal Hotel in the cool ofthe evening. There are no front By Joan Didion lines and only the vaguest information about which of Gallery Philip Simkin's weathered wood 8 the roads are safe. You play it as carefully as you can by checking around with friends, watching civilian traffic and Reviews 16-18 talking to villagers. The rest you have to leave to luck. The Eye ofthe Storm, a TV report on a successful classroom experiment in racial discrimination, But you have to go, and the long drives through silent, de reviewed by John Leonard serted landscapes are sweaty, spooky trips. Eachday's pur Truffaut's new film, Mississippi Mermaid, suit of the news becomes a kind of unarmed reconnais reviewed by Richard Schickel sance—courtesy of Hertz. If that other company is really A reappraisal of Richard Wright, by Clifford Mason trying harder, they would find armored limousines with high reverse speeds very popular in Cambodia just now." Letters to the Editors 30A Special Rit'ort What white students think 34 about Black Studies parting Shots Aselection of news that is good 89 ^^1070 riME INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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