john gardner, once a general manager of the caravel, remembers those war reporters from his childhood. the famous journalist for that i recall were david hel, bostrom peter arnett, niel. she in molly cypher. tim page. they were names that i grew up with as a teenager watching the vietnam ward in on tv every night. fellow new zealander peter arnett, is credited as being the only western journalist to covered a 20 year war from start to finish. i was assigned to vietnam by the associated press as a correspondent with their saigon bureau and i arrived there in saigon and june of 962 at that time, saigon still had the atmosphere of a french colonial city. when i arrived in saigon, i checked and at the caravel hotel, that was a residence where a p star, those who were in and out of the country, always stayed the war, then was between north and south vietnam. but as it intensified, american presence in saigon grew. the 1st 400 u. s. military advisors checked into the rex hotel. but some stayed at the caravel enough to interest the journalists there. what was interesting to me as a journalis