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Charles Mohr. And then by McCulloch later on, Frank McCulloch in Saigon. Both of them basically claiming apparently in memos to Time that, you know, that Time was torpedoing its own journalists. And that, for example, with this unsigned style of journalism more of what Frank Steele, for example, as Bureau Chief in Washington getting the Washington line was feeding--

John, John Steele.

Excuse me, John Steele. More of what he was feeding into New York was being accepted versus what the journalist on the spot was seeing. And apparently there were bitter complaints that they were being undermined in Vietnam. And I want you to tell me everything you recall about that issue.

Well, it isn't quite as simple as Curt put it because this was a complaint that had been going on for years.

About anything?

About anything. About anything. However, the heat of Vietnam made this into an important subject at Time Inc., that Curt properly remembers. But we have always been criticized for this, because, as you know, a newspaper will cover a story in maybe four separate columns by four different people, rather than putting it all together. Time has always put it all together, and in the process one correspondent or the other feels that he has been neglected. I