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Even before the cease-fire began, the effects of the Paris agreement were beginning to show up at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. Among the first Americans to board homeward-bound planes were 110 civilians who had been training South Vietnamese police; before long, all U.S. civilian employees involved in military tasks will be withdrawn, leaving behind a fluctuating population of some 1,800 U.S. civilians serving as advisers in such fields as education and land reform, or as technicians working under contract for private firms and agencies. Saigon's uniformed allies were ready to pull...
...Americans left, the trustees of Viet Nam's fragile peace began to converge on Saigon. U.S. officials anxiously awaited the arrival of the Communist delegations to the supervisory four-party joint military commission. The members of the North Vietnamese delegation were expected to arrive in Saigon by a flight from Hanoi via Vientiane. The Viet Cong promised a more bizarre entrance. U.S. officials awaited a signal to dispatch a helicopter to pick up the V.C. delegation chief (a general, most likely), who would be waiting either in the U Minh forest, an old Communist stronghold in the southern...
Despite Thieu's tough stand-or more likely because of it-Saigon was quiet. No students or demonstrating veterans have taken to the streets. Even Thich Huyen Quang, the head of the militant An Quang Buddhist faction, offered a somewhat ambiguous endorsement of the settlement. "We hope that both winners and losers will put down their weapons," he said...
...Saigon shoppers laid in extra supplies of food-not because they feared civil chaos, but because of widespread expectations that Thieu might extend the 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew. A very few South Vietnamese suddenly decided that it was time to "visit relatives in Paris." But there was no exodus by Thieu's middle-and upper-class constituency, and no important defections from his regime. The coup rumors that floated through Saigon's cafes only a month or two ago had faded away, although, like the fighting war, they could resurface with a vengeance at any time...
...last U.S. unit still engaged in combat in Viet Nam when the cease-fire came was Marine Air Group 12-two squadrons of Sky hawk fighter-bombers flying out of Bien Hoa, 14 miles northeast of Saigon. TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Gavin Scott visited the squadron on its final day in action. His report...