Death in Saigon’s Cholon District
It was the telltale drifting smoke that Sunday morning in the sky over Cholon, Saigon's teeming Chinese sector, that first alerted correspondents to the possibility that the second shoe was about to drop in what had become a decisive turning point of the Vietnam War.
The first wave of the Tet (or Lunar New Year) offensive in southern South Vietnam had be…
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