Foreign Correspondents: Self-Reliance in Saigon

The call came from no less a man than Lieut. General Nguyen Khanh, and Saigon's prettiest Western correspondent hopped a cab to the general's elegant town house on the Saigon River. There the New York Herald Tribune's Beverly Deepe, 29, found Khanh and his wife decorating their patio. They were getting ready for a petite danse, explained the general with a smile. Then he led the visitor into his study, where they talked for more than half an hour. "It was so fantastic," said Beverly later of what the general told her, "I didn't think anyone would believe it...

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