1965: THE YEAR BEFORE 1966, which was the year the VietnamWar was going to end. American troops would be home by Christmas. Theystayed, as it turned out. The next year the Sydney Bulletin claimed the Americanshad already won the war but were keeping quiet about it so that PresidentJohnson could

BERNARD FALL, the Indochina specialist, was once asked what he thought about Australia’s intervention in Vietnam. He replied sharply that he had about as much interest in it as he had in studying why Bulgaria approved Soviet intervention in East Europe. It was an apt parallel. But not for the