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Even so, TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott last week found that many of the city's inhabitants remain afraid of terrorist raids and further shellings. Public schools were still closed to avoid the tragedy of an artillery shell's hitting a crowded classroom. Last week workmen were installing bulletproof glass in the foyer of the U.S. embassy (even as American Charge d'Affaires Thomas Enders assured the capital's populace that "the enemy is failing"). The Australian and British embassies have sandbagged their front entrances, and half of the city...
HARVARD STUDENTS, like most Americans, have come to think of the Indochina War as a nightmare safely past, now that overt American combat there is ended. But American aid and munitions continue to pour into the coffers of Saigon dictatorship, just as the Nixon administration aids its political bedfellows in Chile, Greece, Brazil, South Korea, the Philippines, and the Middle East. In any of these regions an increase of popular resistance to U.S.-supported oppression could cause the government to drag us into new counterrevolutionary intervention. This continual threat of war means that now, as with Dow Chemical...
...this foreign competition invaded markets at home and abroad and the U.S. began spending more money abroad than it was receiving. This balance of payments became serious with the escalation of the Indochina War in 1965. Now tens of billions of dollars flowed abroad to prop up the Saigon dictatorship...
...wild, homeless kids called Cao Bois grew up who beat and rolled American soldiers. Thus Do street had the largest collection of bars and bordellos in Vietnam--less than a half mile from Nguyen Van Thieu's home. Monks burned themselves in the streets; soldiers bought bar girls Saigon Tea for two bucks a shot and got blown up by bicycles laden with explosives; NLF agents lived next door to petty government officials. Hundreds of crippled war veterans angrily confronted the state with demands for housing and health care, descending on the presidential palace, in wheelchairs and on crutches, like...
...drove through Cholon and saw block after block of devastated buildings. Cholon and Gia Dinh had been the operations bases for the NLF battalions attacking Saigon during the 1968 Tet offensive. U.S. fire had leveled both districts in the counter-attacks. We had burned out villages and shot women and children and them built orphanages for the orphans we had made. Only whorehouses sprang up as fast as orphanages during...