Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surface, there seemed little reason to expect that the talks between Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese Chief Negotiator Le Due Tho, which resume in Paris this week, would be any more fruitful than the meetings that had gone before. In Saigon, South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu dispatched a pair of senior diplomats to Washington to reaffirm his opposition to any peace treaty that does not guarantee the sovereignty of the South. In North Viet Nam, which had been further devastated by U.S. bombing during the two weeks before the New Year, the government issued a detailed...
...partially evacuated before it was struck, city officials have already counted 215 dead and 257 wounded-with many more missing or still buried in the rubble. French observers in North Viet Nam claimed that close to 1,000 civilians are dead or wounded in the suburban town of Thai Nguyen...
...parks, and SAM and antiaircraft installations. The report stated that dozens of these targets were destroyed or heavily damaged-the Phuc Yen airfield was bombed, the Hanoi port facility on the Red River hit hard, "all buildings" in the Haiphong petroleum-product storage area were struck, and the Thai Nguyen thermal power plant was virtually wiped out, and on down the target list...
...middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next to one of the key power plants...
...fury was unleashed because, in Nixon's view, the North had acted in bad faith in the negotiations. In October, the U.S. says, the North agreed to separate the question of American prisoners from the fate of Vietnamese political prisoners being held by the South Vietnamese government of Nguyen Van Thieu. Subsequently, they demanded that the two issues be treated together-no Americans released unless Thieu also opened his jails. This Nixon refused to do. "One of the President's major considerations" in resuming the bombing, according to one aide, "was the conditions the North Vietnamese attached...