It was, trumpeted North Viet Nam's official daily, Nhan Dan, "a festival of the completion of national reunification." In Hanoi and Saigon, as well as scores of other cities, towns and hamlets in between, streets and squares were festooned with banners and painted maps that showed North and South with all demarcation lines removedand Hanoi prominently marked as the capital. Called out by Communist ward bossesand, in Saigon, by the pealing bells of the city's churchessome 11 million Vietnamese trooped to the polls clutching pink voter-registration cards to elect the new,...
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