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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...
...hand for United Press International, the Associated Press, and the NBC and CBS television networks-to hold onto their rooms at the Continental Palace and other choice hotels. Along with the P.R.G. troops, the newsmen can buy dated copies of Playboy and Penthouse still on the newsstands, using old Thieu-regime currency...
...past few weeks that it is easy to strike up a conversation with North Vietnamese or Viet Cong soldiers, but it is another matter getting any meaningful information from them." Actually, reporters have had an easier time questioning P.R.G. leaders than they had quizzing officials of the Thieu regime. General Tran Van Tra, head of the military administration for Saigon, has held several press conferences; recently Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho skillfully exchanged banter with journalists at a victory ball in Thieu's old Independence Palace...
...What were two slogans from the Lampoon's October 1971 pre-election victory celebration for Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Thieu's the one." "In your hut you know he's right," "Best Northeastern...