ISSUE DATE: March 15, 1965; Vol LXV, No 11

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COVER: RED CHINA.
To get a firsthand look at some of the major news spots in the Far and Middle East, and to visit Newsweek correspondents in that part of the world, Mrs. Katharine Graham, president of the Washington Post Co., and Osborn Elliott, editor of Newsweek, set off six weeks ago on a round.the-world trip. Accompanied by Mrs. Elliott, they traveled more than 20,000 miles from the jungle warfare of South Vietnam to the political infighting of the Arab world. Some of their impressions:
In Japan, we were granted a half-hour off-the-record audience with the Emperor and the Empress, and talked with Prime Minister Sato about his recent trip to the U.S. (he hit it off well with President Johnson). In Hong Kong we were briefed intensively by some of the world's most experienced "China watchers," who predicted (so far correctly) that the Chinese would not intervene in Vietnam-- provided any escalation were held within limits. Then--dodging the traditional firecracker barrage of Chinese New Year--we spent a morning touring the border and gazing across tumbled-down, barbed-wire fencing at the quiet, rolling fields of Red China.

Though we were in South Vietnam at a most active time--during the Pleiku attack, the retaliation against the North, and the evacuation of U.S. dependents--Ambassador Taylor, General Westmoreland and a number of other top Vietnamese and American officials found time to see us, and we were able to helicopter several times into the field. In Cambodia--we were admitted as tourists, not journalists --we toured Angkor and Phnom Penh, where the U.S. plane shot down last fall was on proud public display.

In Bangkok, we heard many Thais applaud the new military stepup in Vietnam--and in New Delhi, where we talked with U.S. Ambassador Bowles, Prime Minister Shastri, President Radhakrishnan, and many other government leaders, we heard Indians deplore the continued attacks. In Beirut and Cairo--where we spent more than an hour with President Nasser--major interest was centered on the controversy over German arms to Israel, and the visit of East Germany's Walter Ulbricht to the U.A.R. But through every conversation ran an undercurrent of concern over events in Southeast Asia.
One impression that struck us with force during our stay in Vietnam was the very high caliber, dedication, and morale of the American military men we saw--and the Americans' regard for many of their Vietnamese counterparts in the field. There were, for example, the two American military advisers at a just-secured battle zone in Phouc Tuy Provinde, some 30 miles southeast of Saigon. From the previous evening until long after dawn, Maj. Wesley ShuIl and First Lt. Buck Rennick had been dug in with a battalion of South Vietnamese troops against nine enemy assaults. The Viet Cong had used gasoline to set afire the jungle foliage and thus create a fire and smoke screen. The result was that all 37 friendly wounded and all eleven friendly killed were burned. But in the morning, Shull and Rennick helped count the enemy dead--42 so far--it was clear that this action had been a success.

Major ShulI put a hand on the shoulder of Lt. Col. Truong Quang An, the task force commander, and said: "He and his men a tremendous job here last night. They didn't give an inch."

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
The President disarms Congressional critics as the US. puts on pressure in vietnam.
Life with Hubert--the veep tailors his temperament to fit his new.job.
The returning Peace Corpsmen and "culture shock".
INTERNATIONAL:
Reckoning with Red China (the cover by VIP. Photo--Black Star).
In South Vietnam, a boost for military morale, a growing call for peace.
"Pop Diplomacy," or everybody out for the anti-U.S. riot.
THE AMERICAS:
In Canada, behind the noisy cries for separatism, a quiet revolution.
TV-RADIO: At CBS, farewell to the "Smiling Cobra".
RELIGION: A positive thinker's presidency stirs a distinctly negative reaction.
SCIENCE AND SPACE: Centaur mishap sets back moon program; Spying out spies-in-the-sky.
PRESS: Love and a face-lift at the Monitor.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE: Capital appropriations--"a breathing spell" The war between gas and electricity--the public the winner (Spotlight on Business).
SPORTS: Princeton's exemplary Bill Bradley; Strike at Dawn--Australia bans its Olympic swimming champion.
EDUCATION:
In New York, Gross vs. Donovan and a school system in trouble.
Publish or perish and pickets at Yale.
LIFE AND LEISURE: Fat Tuesday in New Orleans.
Skiing at Russia's "Squaw Valley".
MEDICINE: The debate over natural childbirth.

THE ARTS:
ART: Ad Reinhardt assesses his work.
MUSIC:
A modern American dance festival, and a step toward a repertory company.
High noon for Peggy Lee.
THEATER:
Off-Broadway productions--for Anouilh, a disaster; for Miller, a minor miracle.
MOVIES:
Whatever happened to Bette Davis? "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte".
Music by Rodgers, lyrics by Hammerstein, charm by Julie Andrews. (Review of "The Sound of Music" -- "Movie is okay, Julie Andrews is amazing!").
BOOKS:
Norman Mailer's noxious nostrum.
Jules Roy places the blame for the French debacle at Dienbienphu.

THE COLUMNISTS:
Walter Lippmann--Can War Be Debated?.
Kenneth Crawford--Just a Minute, Doctor.
Henry Hazlitt--Maflipulating Interest.
Raymond Moley--Lo! The Poor Tourist.
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