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...nervous G.I. should run across a South Vietnamese civilian carrying a copy of the map shown above, he could be forgiven the notion that he had collared a Viet Cong spy. Next to the bomb-burst symbols at each city, the map also has such suspicious and cryptic legends as "50 outlets, 14 trucks, five Americans, 70 Vietnamese." A plan for a coordinated attack on Allied bases? Not at all. The map shows distribution points used by the company that delivers TIME magazine to U.S. forces...
Getting magazines to the troops is, to be sure, low on the list of military priorities. But last year, newspapers reported that part of TIME'S Viet Cong cover issue (July 28) was found cached in a V.C. cave. Apparently, TIME does get through, with an unusual "pass-along" readership...
...government's twelve-hour curfew (7 p.m. to 7 a.m.), intended to hamper the Viet Cong terrorists, has hampered the average Saigonese even more. Having in the past moonlighted on one or two extra jobs in order to make ends meet, he now is able to hold only one job-if he is lucky enough to still have one. Because of the curtailment of working hours, there is far less economic activity. Some 20 freighters, for example, are lined up in the river waiting to be unloaded. The lack of these imports means fewer jobs, smaller pay packets. Partly...
...face. In the Chinese quarter of Cholon, the heaviest damaged area, only rubble and fragments of walls mark the places where row upon row of one-story houses once stood. Patched up and painted, the U.S. embassy shows few scars from its dust-up with the Viet Cong, but many buildings elsewhere are pockmarked by bullets and bomb fragments...
Saigon's bars provide an interesting insight into the city's mentality. Some bars have changed the name of the drink guzzled by the bar girls from "Saigon tea" to "Saigon-Hanoi tea." Many of the girls, mindful of Viet Cong retribution for consorting with Americans, now alter the traditional toast, chin-chin-to your health-to chin-chin, Ho Chi Minh. They also bring a change of clothing to work so that they can slip out of their conspicuous B-girl tight pants and into the traditional flowing Ao-Dais for the evening trip home...