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The City Council recently granted a preliminary festival permit to organizers of the celebration of the Vietnamese New Year on Jan. 29 and 30.
The Union of Vietnamese Student Assns. of Southern California, the organizers of next year’s Tet festival on Monroe Avenue, must meet with city workers to discuss conditions the city may have before a final permit can be approved.
Last year’s festival coincided with anti-Communist demonstrations directed against Truong Van Tran, a video store owner who displayed a picture of the late Communist leader Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese flag in his store. The display sparked a two-month protest, drawing as many as 15,000 people to demonstrate.
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