Word: huong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he will not continue the dialogue unless the present government resigns and the U.S. withdraws its forces. They are employing the same tactics that the Viet Cong used in Viet Nam when they said they would negotiate only if Thieu stepped down. When Thieu stepped down, they said Huong was not eligible; and then when "Big" Minh came, there was nothing left to negotiate...
...Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced by his aging, ineffectual Vice President, Tran Van Huong, who in turn gave way after just six days to the only man thought to have a chance of negotiating a ceasefire: Buddhist opposition leader Duong Van ("Big") Minh. His presidential tenure proved the briefest of all and set the stage for the final Communist triumph...
...RESIGNATION. Huong, under pressure from U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and Saigon leaders to resign, capitulated at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon, saying that he would transfer the presidency to the "personality" chosen by South Viet Nam's legislature?and "the sooner the better." Hours later, the National Assembly voted 134 to 2 to give the job to Big Minh...
Later that day, Big Minh formally took power from the feeble Huong in a ceremony at the presidential palace. "We sincerely want reconciliation," he told the unseen Provisional Revolutionary Government. "You clearly know that. Reconciliation demands that each element of the nation respect the other's right to live." Minh proposed an immediate cease-fire "as a manifestation of our good will, and to quickly end the soldiers' and people's sufferings...
...South Viet Nam's most durable and well-liked leaders. A southerner, born in My Tho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, and a Buddhist, he was educated in a French lycee and served in the French colonial army. He was once a student of President Tran Van Huong, whom he generally addresses by the respectful term "Master." Imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II, Minh had half of his teeth yanked out by torturers. He now wears a bridge...