Volume 23, Number 12 · July 15, 1976
Vietnam: The First Year
By Tiziano Terzani
On the veranda of the Continental Hotel overlooking the main square of Saigon, the foreign officers, the girls in elegant Western clothes, the long-haired children of the Saigon bourgeoisie are gone now, replaced by young soldiers from Hanoi and peasants who have come to town as political commissars of the revolution. They sit in the same old yellow armchairs drinking the locally made '33' beer or café filtre.
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