Word: curfew
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...lights in the bars on Tu Do Street in downtown Saigon gleam through the moist monsoon night until the capital's 11 p.m. curfew. But a scant ten miles away on Saigon's rural edges, the huts grow dark with the dusk. Lights are as likely to attract a Viet Cong bullet as a mosquito. Their backs to the glow from the city, South Vietnamese troops and their U.S. advisers settle back for a long night of watching-and, above all, listening. For the perimeter surrounding the 400 square miles of Gia Dinh province, which includes Saigon...
When the occasion demands, Premier Nguyen Cao Ky can be a very flexible fellow. He has at various times threatened to close all of Saigon's newspapers, line up the city's profiteering rice merchants before a firing squad, and advance the nightly curfew to 9 p.m. But when the drastic threats brought indignant opposition, he quietly retreated. Last week Ky found it convenient once again to show a little flexibility...
...necessary proclamation at 5 p.m. Friday, I requested 15,000 men, though the Guard was planning on holding only 2,000 and permitting 7,500 to proceed to Camp Roberts. The Governor had no authority while in Greece. The Acting Governor had to sign the proclamation and order the curfew...
...announced that one civil servant would be executed shortly for embezzling $255,000. He also had a convicted Viet Cong terrorist shot in a Saigon marketplace, ordered all four army corps commanders to do likewise. Stirring unhappy memories of highhanded Mme. Nhu, the government slapped an 11 p.m. curfew on the capital in order to mute the blatant contrast be tween Saigon's hedonistic existence and the grim, grey life of the Communist-ridden countryside...
...black leather armchairs that swivel-for obvious reasons. Handsome crystal chandeliers illuminate the bar, an elaborately carved pool table graces a paneled billiard room where baseball's Leo Durocher conducts a highly oral brand of psychological warfare against such regulars as Actor Peter Falk. After the 2 a.m. curfew on drinks (but not dancing), free coffee and fresh fruit are provided. But no other food is ever served and no money changes hands; members sign their bills at the end of the evening. On Saturday nights, the Sunday papers are placed in each parked...