Newscasting: Glimpse of the Viet Cong

By now, TV watchers are familiar with the sight of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops; even shots of North Vietnamese militiamen in Hanoi are hardly a novelty. Only the Viet Cong have remained largely invisible. But that defect will be remedied next month when CBS runs a film made by French Freelancer Roger Pic, 47. Already broadcast in France, the 25-minute documentary gives a glimpse of Viet Cong life at a clandestine camp operating under the shadow of U.S. military might only 60 miles from Saigon.

Pic, who had already done three sympathetic documentaries on North Viet Nam, plus others...