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...give his question added impact, all 5,000 Saigon stevedores went out on strike. The G.I.s undertook only to offload the necessary military supplies, leaving dozens of ships with civilian goods and USAID cargoes stacking up in the river. To bring pressure on the Army negotiators, the Dock Workers Union summoned all 50,000 union members in all of Saigon's industries to a one-day general sympathy strike. But few responded, and at week's end the pressure was coming from the other side: Premier Ky applied some pressure of his own, asserting that "strikes...