Edwin Q. White, 90, American journalist, Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press (1965-1975), heart failure.
So taken with Aller was Gibson that when there was a sudden opening in the paper's Saigon bureau, he bestowed upon him one of the most coveted posts in journalism.
And Westin telexed the ABC network's Saigon bureau:
Newsweek and Time magazines each had their Saigon bureaux on the second floor of the hotel.
Your article was illuminating for its revelation that, in 1971, The Los Angeles Times would hire a draft-resisting, antiwar activist for its Saigon bureau.
The next year, he was reassigned to the network's Saigon bureau, where he stayed until 1974, when he moved to its Washington office.
My friend and colleague Kevin Buckley, then a much-admired correspondent and Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek, became interested in the "pacification" campaign which bore this breezy code name.
The death last weekend of my friend the photographer Eddie Adams took me back to a visit to the Saigon bureau of The Associated Press before Christmas of 1965.
His exclusive photographs of an attempted coup d'état in Laos in 1965 for UPI got him a staff position in the Saigon bureau of the news agency.
Kevin Buckley, who arrived in Newsweek's Saigon bureau in February 1968, said, "There were two big questions: How are we doing and what are we doing?"