Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilty of "abuse of power, corruption and social injustice." Though the resolution did not specifically demand Thieu's ouster, more than 20 of the 41 Senators voting for the resolution called in their speeches for the President to leave office. Viet Nam's ranking Catholic, the moderate Saigon Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh, agreed with the Senate and prayed aloud that Thieu would resign...
Thieu's response was a characteristically confusing combination of compromise and repression. After remaining in virtual seclusion for most of the week, he announced that an entirely new Cabinet, what he called a "fighting Cabinet," would be formed. The new Prime Minister would be Nguyen Ba Can, speaker of the lower house in the National Assembly and known to be solidly in Thieu's camp. Can will replace the more independent and prestigious Tran Thieu Khiem, the most senior military officer in South Viet Nam, who, significantly, was expected to join the anti-Thieu opposition. Hours earlier, police had arrested...
...country was partitioned at the 17th parallel. That earlier exodus was organized and dominated by Catholics and anti-Communists and was encouraged by the Saigon regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. There was a great deal of propaganda at the time, and some not so subtle rumor mongering. Father Nguyen Dinh Thi, a priest who was part of that flight but who now lives in Paris, claims that some superstitious Catholic peasants were told that Our Lady of Fatima expected the faithful to go south and that, "if they did not, they would be turning their back...
...impassioned plea was issued last week as an "Appeal to the American People" by Ambassador Nguyen Huu Chi, South Viet Nam's permanent observer at the United Nations. The plea has certainly not gone unheeded. In the U.S. and elsewhere, governments and private citizens have begun to extend a hand to the South Vietnamese, particularly by adopting some of its orphans...
...rushing an enormous amount of matériel to Saigon just before the cease-fire took effect. In the first year of the ceasefire, government forces expanded the land area under their control by some 20%, bringing roughly 1 million additional people under the South Vietnamese flag. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who felt with some justification that he was being placed in an untenable no-win situation, also did all he could to block the open political struggle in South Viet Nam that was envisaged by the accords...