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Like countless other communities in Asia, Ho Chi Minh City-also known as Saigon-last week celebrated Tet, the three-day lunar New Year. Flowers bedecked the streets, although perhaps not so many as in years gone by. The city's florists did not believe that South Viet Nam's new Provisional Revolutionary Government would allow such a luxury. As one of them put it, "We were not prepared to grow flowers on time...
...first time since 1968, when Tet was the occasion of a devastating Communist military offensive, firecrackers were allowed in Saigon and could be heard exploding sharply throughout the sprawling city. There were also the usual multicolored dragons snaking rhythmically through the streets, along with swarms of whining, air-polluting Honda motorbikes...
...further challenge to the Administration, the committee subpoenaed top-secret records on the performance of U.S. intelligence agencies during the Communists' Tet offensive in South Viet...
...strength for the agency in 1965-67. He charged that the CIA conspired with the military and other U.S. intelligence agencies to hide the Communists' true military strength from the American public in 1967 for political reasons and ended up misjudging the potential scope and ferocity of the Tet assault. Adams said that while U.S. officials were claiming that Communist forces in South Viet Nam totaled about 300,000, the actual figure was about twice as high...
...adoptive families and provides support and advice throughout the adoption process. Local branches of the society sponsor regular evening sessions to discuss problems and adjustments arising from adoption, as well as such activities as overnight camping trips, picnics, programs on Indian lore and other cultures, and combined Tet and Martin Luther King Day celebrations. Other organizations conduct home-studies and act as bridges to inter-country adoption agencies in other states. For example, International Adoptions concentrates on the "hard-to-place" child--children who are handicapped or of mixed blood or older than the infants usually sought by adoptive parents...