In addition, three separate ceasefire accords, covering Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam, were signed at the conference.

Many schools and colleges are now covering Vietnam in history classes, he said, and some literature classes deal with works about the war.

And it is this that also characterises the responses of most of the correspondents who covered either Vietnam or Cambodia or both.

The talk turns to Robert Shaplen, who covered Vietnam for many years for The New Yorker.

He covered Vietnam and the White House before joining The San Diego Union in 1982.

In the mid-1960's, The Journal sent him to cover Vietnam, and he returned disillusioned about the war, said his wife of 54 years, Sherry.

After merger with R. fansipani, its distribution also covers Vietnam and China.

It originally covered China, Japan, Vietnam and the Malay archipelago, with the exception of the Philippines.

But for those at the reunion who had gone on to cover Vietnam, Korea was a somewhat "safer" war for journalists.

The articles by Phil McCombs, who had covered Vietnam as an Army journalist, included one caveat.