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...Saigon is gradually becoming a stereotypic city under Communist control. All newspapers except those authorized by the Communist Party have been suppressed. A detailed census is being taken, presumably to facilitate supervision of all activities. Political and military officials who served under the old Thieu regime have been ordered to report to "reeducation" centers. Martial music and Communist slogans blare from street-corner loudspeakers...
...easygoing mood that marked the first days of the Communist occupation of Saigon is quickly vanishing, according to Western observers who have recently left South Viet Nam's capital. "The smiles of those days have faded," says Dieter Ludwig, a West German photographer who was expelled from Saigon when the new rulers decided to reduce drastically the number of non-Communist journalists. Saigon has been plagued by a near epidemic of theft and lawlessness. At first the Communists were quite casual about patrolling the streets; soon they began making rounds heavily armed and only in groups of at least...
...Western-influenced life-style of Saigon has become a target of Communist ire. Blue jeans, nail polish, lipstick and miniskirts have been condemned as vestiges of the defeated capitalist society. Young men have been pressured to trim their long hair, while girls have been urged to wear "clothes that are simple and not stimulating." As a result, more Saigon women these days are wearing the traditional slit-skirt ao-dai, which, ironically, many Westerners regarded as extremely stimulating indeed...
...South Viet Nam. Still, many Saigonais still fear a crackdown. Liberation Daily, in fact, may have hinted that such a terror campaign is in the offing; a recent article noted "a popular movement to discover and pursue the wicked elements who were servants of Americans and their puppet Saigon government...
...foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...