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...siren-like whine of the jet and the explosions triggered pandemonium in the city. Diners crouched in fear behind street food stalls, panicked blue-and-white-uniformed children fled from a nearby school, riot police in green cars closed in on the palace. Radio Saigon proclaimed a 24-hour curfew; shops were quickly shuttered, and traffic was hopelessly snarled as people tried to hurry home...
...ever. Food is still plentiful because the roads to the Mekong Delta remain open. But tea and coffee from the Highlands, avocados and lettuce from Dalat and lobsters from Nha Trang are all bound to run out before long. Many dance halls and teahouses have been closed, and the curfew has been moved back to 9 p.m. so that diners in the fine old French restaurants such as Aterbea and Auberge Ramuntcho must wolf down their meals...
...population of 500,000 has been swollen to 2 million by refugees. Despite the ever present danger from random Khmer Rouge rocketing, children still sing in the streets in the early evening and decorations are going up for the Cambodian New Year, April 13. But after the 9 p.m. curfew, the only sound is the chatter of small-arms fire punctuated by the thump of rockets and howitzer shells. By day, the city is ever more pathetic and dangerous. There are serious food shortages. Men dressed in army uniforms use M-79s to threaten shopkeepers, then take whatever they wish...
...Saigon, the nightly curfew was advanced by two hours to 10 p.m.; even the most brazen street boys, prostitutes and soup vendors were prudently getting off the streets an hour before deadline. The capital was in no immediate danger. Yet as scare stories of Communist advances reached the city, many people began talking of leaving the country altogether. "Where do we go now?" asked Nguyen Thi Luong, an office worker who fled Hanoi in 1954. "Twenty years ago we came south. Now we're at the bottom and can't go any farther...
...effort to restore order, the government declared a nighttime curfew and a state of emergency, and suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days. At week's end it appeared that at least 100 people had been killed and 300 wounded in two days and a night of fighting and demonstrating. The rioting at times had been so fierce that some Latin American diplomats dubbed it el Limazo, a reference to the bloody riots known as el Bogotazo. which took place in Bogota, Colombia, 27 years...