The Press: Saigon's Publishing Perils

Saigon's Puvlishing Perils Each afternoon in Saigon, as South Viet Nam's 57 dailies start their press runs, the first copies are rushed to the office of the national press director. A battery of readers in Vietnamese, Chinese, French and English gives them a fast run-through, and officials decide which papers are to be seized that day for running articles they consider unacceptable. Word is flashed to police with walkie-talkies stationed outside the printing plants of habitual offenders. While the cops carry stacks of banned papers out the front door, staffers often spirit out...