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<text id=90TT1142>
<title>
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>
<hdr>
FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<body>
<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
</p>
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</article>
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