All eyes in Saigon were still staring to the North. In the wake of the U.S. retaliatory blow against North Vietnamese bases, government officials and civilians alike waited with a kind of horrible fascination for some sign of things to come. Crews of workers carved up the city's parks, preparing air-raid shelters for 400,000 of Saigon's 1,500,000 residents, while government pencil pushers cranked up a plan to evacuate hundreds of thousands more in the event of an attack.
Forward in Force. There seemed little possibility that such preparations would soon be put...
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