Black market goods flood Saigon side streets
Street vendors in Saigon's side streets sell a wide range of American goods through illicit channels. Canned foods, cigarettes and liquor are readily available, with Americans in South Vietnam also buying from the black market as shown by a GI in civilian clothes making a storefront purchase.
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