Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporting whose bias verged on the ridiculous. To Time magazine, the Saigon government's abandonment of half its country was "a gritty gamble," a "historic rearrangement of the Vietnamese political map" to be celebrated with an in-depth look at the government's head: "As both soldier and politician, Nguyen Van Thieu has fought the Communist menace from the North, and it remains his abiding passion today." Similarly, U.S. News and World Report reassured its readers--in suitably muted tones--that "a long, costly investment of American lives and treasure" was not "about to go down the drain...
INDOCHINA. The swift and almost uncontested Communist offensive in South Viet Nam raised an unsettling question: Had 50,000 American lives and $150 billion in U.S. aid been spent in vain? The government of Nguyen Van Thieu was proving much weaker than had been thought, and the fast fallback of his forces approached an all-out rout. Obviously, U.S. intelligence about Thieu and his powers had been grievously faulty. First, the former imperial capital of Hue fell to the Communists; then so did five more provinces, bringing the total under their control to 13 (out of 44). But the real...
...hold only a number of coastal enclaves, and it is only a matter of time before they, too, fall. The abrupt collapse of government resistance in Danang climaxed a week in which Communist troops advanced almost at will down the central plains of South Viet Nam. In Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu was under pressure to yield powers to a more broadly based government...
Close enough, it seemed, for some extraordinary political events to take place in Saigon. On Wednesday a group of leading anti-Communists met for tea at the officers' club at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. Their host was Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant airman who was Prime Minister from 1965 to 1967. Among Ky's 30-odd guests were such prominent figures as Dr. Tran Van Do, former Foreign Minister and head of the South Vietnamese delegation to the Geneva Convention of 1954, and Father Tran Huu Thanh, leader of the Catholic anticorruption movement that has sponsored several...
Kissinger is obviously still deeply and emotionally involved with Viet Nam and believes sincerely that the U.S. has a moral commitment to continue aiding South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Yet Kissinger's critics argue that had he pressed harder for a political settlement in Viet Nam during the past year or so, the present situation might have been averted, regardless of his previous achievement in extricating the U.S.from...