Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowed to determine the future of Vietnam without political or economic interference from America. American aid to both halves of the war-torn country should be administered by the International Control Commission, and aid to the South should not have to pass through the notoriously sticky fingers of Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Nixon approves what Kissinger brought back-and the betting in Washington was that he would-the next step is to persuade the Saigon regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu to go along. In view of Thieu's intransigence to date, that may take considerable presidential muscle. After meeting later on Sunday with both Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Kissinger's former aide, Nixon dispatched Haig to Saigon to put the strong arm on Thieu...
That scenario is not entirely imaginary. On the evidence of captured Communist documents and the public and private edicts of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, it is the most probable aftermath of any ceasefire. Both sides have for months been preparing for a tumultuous, violent postwar war that will determine the political future of South Viet Nam as much as any battle of the past...
Nine months ago, when the North Vietnamese first attacked An Loc, President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the city held "at all costs"-and it was. An Loc never fell, reports Neff, but neither did it exactly survive. Once a prosperous commercial hub for the area's rubber plantations, An Loc before the siege had a population of 20,000; today it is a Goya-like portrait of the horrors of war, inhabited by perhaps 250 civilians...
During the height of the siege, at least 1,000 artillery, rocket and mortar shells a day rained down on An Loc; one day the number reached 8,000. Colonel Nguyen Van Biet had 1,115 men in his Ranger Group 3 when the Communists launched their first attack last April. After three months of fighting, all but 346 were either dead or wounded. The shelling of the city has stopped, but An Loc is still surrounded by enemy troops, and the fighting continues...