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Saigon

a city in South Vietnam; formerly (as Saigon) it was the capital of French Indochina

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Ho Chi Minh City

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And a young, dashing officer from Saigon and wedding bells. Ding dong.
But we just have to get to Saigon.
I can see no reason why you and your apprentice shouldn't consider yourselves guests of the United States government until we can set you ashore at Saigon, do you?
We'll set you ashore in Saigon.
You'll forget all about fishing when you see the gals in Saigon.
And also in Saigon.
Saigon, Dien Bien Phu.
Saigon, Karachi.
Today, General Lee is definitely in Saigon.
Morocco, Libya, Thailand and Saigon.
Yahara. We were always drinking together in Saigon, before the war.
Check out the State Department, Military Intelligence. Find out if they've had any homicides with a similar M.O., including that bit with the quarter, in or around Saigon during the past three or four years.
Any word from Saigon yet?
He gets his kicks with his hammer and chisel. The commissioner's gonna violate you with a hammer and chisel if we don't tie a can on this. That report from Saigon you've been sweating out?
I left the boat here for the same reason I took it at Saigon. - What reason?
It's bad enough having to play around with them in Saigon, much less have one in your house.
Now why don't you go down to Saigon and. to blow the lid off? Get a laugh out of your liquor?
With this outfit running away as it is, how am I going to get to Saigon?
Well, as a matter of fact, what came up from Saigon isn't so bad-looking.
But when I get down to Saigon, there'll be more.
The nearest doctor's in Saigon.
Well, I gotta get a couple of boys trekking down to Saigon for help, and by the time I get a new shaft and propeller in it, it'll be, let me see now.
I got on a boat to go down to Saigon, you know, to do a little shopping?
You'll go back to Saigon. On what?
A few days ago you said something about sending me back to Saigon, in a hammock through the bush.
A French woman killed in Saigon.
She stayed here for 6 months, then she left for Saigon.
We just have to get to Saigon.
I can see no reason why you and your apprentice shouldn't consider yourselves guests of the U.S. Government until we can set you ashore at Saigon.
The boat from Saigon arrived.
This. This comes every month from Saigon.
Saigon.
I'm still only in Saigon.
It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker. of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory-- any more than being back in Saigon was an accident.
It's about 82 degrees in downtown Saigon right now, also very humid.
We have an important message for all GI's. who are living off base from the mayor of Saigon.
The mayor wants you to keep Saigon beautiful.
Saigon was carrying him MIA for his family's sake. but they assumed he was dead.

News and current affairs

Like a passerby staring at the wreckage of a road accident, I watched the fall of Saigon on television in Connecticut with my new family.
Barely twelve, I left Saigon a month before its fall with an American officer whom I had befriended in an army hospital, where my mother and I volunteered.
Twenty five years after Saigon's fall, most of us have inched away from the margins of American life.
Across America, in Orange County in California, in Houston and Dallas, Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia, Saigon has been resurrected.
In Ho Chi Minh City, a name not even Communist officials use, Saigon remains its old brash, energetic, and audacious self.
As a result of economic reforms, the private economy, especially in Saigon, surpasses the official state economy.
What he wanted to learn was how his Mekong Delta province could attract some of the foreign investment going mostly to Saigon.
Rather than the dominos falling following America's retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam-Cambodian War ensued.
The looming Afghan withdrawal recalls, at least for some Asians, a third, even more traumatic event: America's chaotic exit from Saigon in April 1975.
America did, indeed, turn inward following the fall of Saigon, and its neglect of Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989 led to chaos and Al Qaeda's near-takeover of the country.
But ever since those immortal scenes of US army helicopters hovering above the abandoned US embassy in Saigon in 1975, Vietnam has mostly slipped from the world's consciousness.

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