Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more military money to help anti-Communist forces in both Viet Nam and Cambodia came from President Gerald Ford. In a coordinated drive, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger added their personal public appeals. Even Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu suddenly submitted to interviews with a dozen newsmen. The net impression was that the nation was once again caught up in a divisive war debate...
...opening up a full-scale frontal offensive-in part to avoid provoking the U.S. Congress into increasing military aid to South Viet Nam. What they are apparently trying to do, instead, is encourage the urban-centered non-Communist opposition in South Viet Nam to force the resignation of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Evidently the North Vietnamese and the Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) believe that with Thieu out of power, they could eventually dominate a coalition government...
...Communists' overall strategy in South Viet Nam. Since the Paris Accords, the Communists have concentrated on building up their hold on rural areas; now they seem ready to attack and conquer key administrative centers and major towns. Their apparent goal is to erode the political base of President Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government, forcing it eventually to resign or enter a coalition with the Provisional Revolutionary Government...
...resistance to Saigon's president, Nguyen Van Thieu, mounted not only in the countryside but in the cities, not only among sympathizers with the PRG but among life-long anti-communists, and as Thieu stepped up his attacks on these opponents as well, it became clearer than ever that Thieu's government bore with it no hope for peace and democracy. And for all the courage of Thieu's liberal opponents, two decades of civil war have made it plain that the PRG speaks for most of those Vietnamese farmers who are not simply weary of the war, that...
...Vinh Long '68, a student in East Asian Studies, said that Nguyen Van Hao, then head of the U.S.-funded Rural Development Bank, left Saigon on government orders "because to tell the truth about the money's disappearance might have implicated other high officials...