Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South Vietnamese President, Nguyen Van Thieu, meanwhile continued to reject the proposed accord and at the same time to rally his people in preparation for a ceasefire. Last Sunday, despite a ban on public demonstrations, his government permitted (and stage-managed) the largest political rally the capital has seen in six years. More than 10,000 Vietnamese Catholics marched to the Saigon city hall to register their support of Thieu and their opposition to the settlement...
...peace package. On television, Richard Nixon repeated that he would not be "stampeded" into signing the agreement before it is "right." George McGovern replied bitterly that Nixon had embarked "not on a path to peace but a detour around Election Day." North Viet Nam's Paris spokesman Nguyen Than Le blasted the Administration as "dishonest" and demanded that it make a public "commitment" to sign the agreement as it stood. In Saigon, meanwhile, South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu escalated his fulminations of discontent by declaring that the plan was a shameless "surrender to the Communists...
Determination, organization, passion: all were key elements of Ho's extraordinarily complicated personality, as they were of the close little band of men he chose to help lead his crusade. Le Duan, Vo Nguyen Giap, Pham Van Dong-all sworn to create a Viet Nam free of foreign control, all dedicated Communists. But they were Communists of a distinctly nationalist breed. Influenced though they were by the writings of Marx and Lenin, all seemed to know that neither Peking nor Moscow could win their war for them...
...spent months and years in prison and exile for their beliefs. Ho himself, when he returned to Viet Nam in February 1941, had been away from his native land for 30 years, and the name Ho Chi Minh was only the last in a bewildering list of pseudonyms. Born Nguyen That Thanh (which means He Who Will Be Victorious), he became Nguyen Ai Quoc (He Who Loves His Country) during his poverty-ridden years in Paris. Later, during his travels between China and Moscow, where he studied at the revolutionary University of the Toilers of the East, he was known...
...opponents sense his political weakness, and rumors of a coup are circulating for the first time in a year. Who could succeed Thieu? One name often mentioned is that of General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), who is a former chief of state. Other possibilities: former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky; Au Truong Thanh, a former high official who was exiled to Paris in 1968 as a neutralist; Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the South Viet Nam Senate; Tran Thien Khiem, the country's Premier; and Tran Van Tuyen, an anti-Thieu member of the South Vietnamese Lower House...