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Welcome to Our Cities, Unless You're Communist

By Mai Tran and Monte Morin, Times Staff Writers

Memories of the Red Menace may be fading in much of America, but they are very much alive in Orange County's Little Saigon.

In a gesture that says a lot about the uncompromising anger that many Vietnamese emigres feel toward the regime they fled, leaders want to declare a no-Communist zone.

Officials in Garden Grove and Westminster, two cities that share the sprawling district that is the hub of the world's largest Vietnamese population outside Vietnam, plan to propose today identical city measures that would effectively prohibit visits by trade or government representatives from Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital.

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