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The article focuses on the efforts of the U.S. to maintain its relation with Asian countries despite of what the Viet Nam war has caused. It states that in order to keep America's friendship with Asians, the American State Department intended to pay attention at the natural resources, industrial centers and population, and American treaty commitments of Asia. It also mentions that Washington also planned to request Japan to take more costly and active part in Asia since it is considered as an industrial country. Meanwhile, heightened Sino-Soviet dispute remained a concern despite of the efforts of the U.S. to uphold its Asian relations.

The article presents the insights of several correspondents who covered the Viet Nam war regarding the tragedy of the war. Murray Gart narrates the attacks of South Vietnamese generals to the presidential palace which killed South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem on November 1, 1963. John Shaw recounts his experience of covering the Army of the Republic of Vietnam operation in March 1965, where he saw an old woman lying who might have been burned from an incendiary rocket that they fired.

The article focuses on the efforts of various U.S. and religious based volunteer agencies to provide relief to the human suffering of Vietnamese caused by the Vietnam War. It states that American Neil Brenden and his wife arrived in Saigon, Vietnam through the relief agency of Vietnam Christian Service to run a center for teen-age girls and a nursery for children. It also mentions that the Catholic Relief Services has released material gifts and cash worth 11.5 million dollars in South Vietnam.

The article focuses on the decline of American public affection for U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in 1966. It states that only 50% of Americans endorse President Johnson compared to 83% in February 1964 according to Louis Harris poll, while the Gallup Organization poll for two months shows an eight percent decline from 56% to 48%. It says that the president's public image has been affected by the problems on issues such as the Viet Nam war, price increases, and black riots.

The article focuses on the hostile television (TV) broadcasts about the U.S. in Vietnam on French TV screens. It says that Baron Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie was using 15 minutes of state-controlled French television prime time to attack the U.S. on its stand in Vietnam. It reveals that U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen protested, at a meeting with French Minister of State Louis Joxe, on D'Astier's used of French government transmitters for his attacks. However, Joxe dismissed the complaint.

The article focuses on the experiences of some correspondents in Viet Nam when they were assigned to cover the war in the country. It states that David DeVoss traveled north to Hue, Viet Nam, wherein he got information regarding the mass evacuation. It says that Rudolph Rauch went to the endangered Central Highlands town of Kontum and then stayed overnight on ambush patrol away Phu Bai. Meanwhile, correspondent Don Neff considered that the element of surprise is the only constant in Vet Nam.

The article offers the insights of "Time" Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud regarding the war in Vietnam and its impact on the lives of Vietnamese. Cloud says that war is irrational and in which Vietnamese lost their relatives in Vietnam War. According to Cloud, the war is not ending and does not even showing any signs of ending in Vietnam where it lasted for so long. Cloud adds that Westeners are wrong in thinking that Vietnamese wanted to the war continue, rather Vietnamese wanted to end.

The article focuses on the victims of Vietnam war. It states that U.S. reported in May 1972 that military death since 1961 had an estimate of 45,703 Americans, 4,875 other allied troops, 159,839 South Vietnamese, and 810,757 Communists. However, U.S. sent bombs in North Vietnam again despite the reported deaths which indicate that the war had always been bloody and numerology of body counts suggests that South Vietnamese army has already given up lives of those persons that U.S. wants to save.

The article focuses on the demonstrations of students of Harvard University against Vietnam war. It mentions that the Harvard chapter of Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.) has proposed a debate between Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who will lecture the Kennedy Institute of Politics in the university, and editor Robert Scheer of "Ramparts" magazine. However, university officials have denied the proposal resulting to student protests outside the campus.

The article focuses on the negligence of the U.S. Army Operation Paul Revere II manifest the basic error in Viet Nam war. It says that the military Historian S. L. A. Marshall pointed out that the reporting of war is not done properly as what the ordinary people would like to know wherein reports are covered which will make them to worry. It adds that the negative and trivial story written out of the Viet Nam war is the result of the laziness of young writers to obtain facts from the war.

The article focuses on the measures taken by the Californian government to prevent protests over the war in Viet Nam. It states that the U.S. Congress has approved a law that makes the burning and destroying of draft cards a federal offense, with 10,000 dollars fine or five years of imprisonment. Moreover, it mentions that California Democratic Council president Simon Casady condemns U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and the Vietnamese war as morally, legally and politically indefensible.