Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After an announcement of a ceasefire in Vietnam. President Nguyen Van Thieu will continue as leader of the present Saigon government until the formation of a tripartite government in which Thieu will assume leadership of one segment. One of the remaining two segments will include individuals who are neutrals and who live in Vietnam or abroad. The other group will include supporters of the National Liberation Front and the Provisional Revolutionary Government. Each segment will be free to choose the individuals it wants to participate in the provisional government, whose task will be to plan the arrangements for a permanent...
...certain that a settlement would not have been possible without election year pressures. News reports from Saigon in recent days have described Thieu's extreme dissatisfaction with the terms of the negotiations. When Kissinger finally left Saigon on Monday, Thieu may have told his colleagues what former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky told ranking members of South Vietnam's National Defense Military College on July...
...peace roller coaster seemed to be moving again. Henry Kissinger in Paris, elusive black limousines, suburban hideaways, no hard news but tantalizing intimations of "rapid progress." Twice Kissinger extended his stay 24 hours, inevitably heightening the speculation that the dealing had indeed grown serious. In Saigon President Nguyen Van Thieu contributed his bit by vehemently asserting in a speech that he would never agree to a coalition government-which naturally enough suggested that his future was front and center in the Paris bargaining...
...from Saigon, reported breakthroughs-and both stories were emphatically denied by both the White House and by North Vietnamese officials. Much of the speculation seemed inspired by the fact that Major General Alexander M. Haig Jr., deputy to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, had conferred with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon. TIME White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter assesses the situation...
...problem in any settlement would be the status of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi still insists on his departure, while the most that Washington has offered is that he would resign one month before elections were held. In recent weeks, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker has reportedly urged Thieu to make overtures to the Viet Cong and neutralist elements that might be included in a future government, but any such suggestion has been met with blustery defiance. In a speech nominally aimed at the French but probably intended for the Americans, Thieu said, "I severely warn...