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Under U.S. pressure, the Saigon government suddenly relaxed the rules for evacuating the Vietnamese dependents of American citizens. One American affected by the ruling was Karl Camp, who had already spent $1,500 in bribes in an effort to get his Vietnamese wife and her six children out of the country. Another was former Serviceman Kenneth Cowan, who had left his wife and three children in Saigon when his tour of duty in Viet Nam ended two years ago. Now a helicopter repairman in Redondo Beach, Calif, Cowan took a month's leave from his job, sold...
According to intelligence estimates, ten North Vietnamese divisions were gathering in the region of Saigon, awaiting a signal to attack. Communist shelling of the city and of nearby Tan Son Nhut airbase could begin at any time. U.S. Army Chief of Staff Frederick Weyand returned from South Viet Nam to Washington two weeks ago convinced that "the North Vietnamese seek a total military conquest of South Viet Nam." With so many options available to them, they might decide instead to pursue a strategy of slow strangulation, gradually cutting Saigon off from the coast, from the Delta and finally from...
...with its plan to reduce the remaining American population in South Viet Nam to about 1,000 by the end of this week. One problem was what officials called "the woodwork factor": as many as 1,400 Americans whose existence caught the U.S. embassy by surprise have surfaced in Saigon, seeking...
...campaign of revenge and terror, Communist forces had little time for retribution. They had more than enough work trying to restore the captured cities and towns to normal operation. In Danang, according to a South Vietnamese businessman who was there after the fall and then made his way to Saigon, the normal population of 500,000 was swollen to almost twice that number by refugees. Military government experts were preoccupied with getting the refugees back to their homes; bus service has already been established from Danang and Qui Nhon to as far north as Hanoi...
...civil servants and technicians had fled, leaving communities without electricity or water. Merchants had closed their shops. The first task of the arriving soldiers was to get communities operating again. Communist cadres set men to burning or burying dead bodies; women were put to work cleaning streets and whitewashing Saigon slogans off public walls. Hanoi also broadcast pleas for shipments of medicines, vitamins and powdered milk...