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REPORTAGE on the Vietnam war produced great television journalism, and one of the most unforgettable opening lines of such reportage was narrated amid the familiar backdrop of the bombed-out villages, the bagged bodies of the dead and the usual detritus of war. The opening line was precise, unsentimental and to the point; it said: "Here, is a graveyard of lost hopes." At that precise nadir of Vietnam's history, its peasant soldiers fighting the world's mightiest army, the nation was indeed written off as a graveyard of lost hopes and dreams.
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