Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cannot have it both ways," writes TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "Either the North Vietnamese were badly beaten in their effort to take the town and therefore do not have a force of any great size still blocking the road, or else Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh and his troops have been, in the bitter words of one Western military expert in Saigon, 'culpable in their failure to push on in there.' " By keeping the column stationary, Minh and his officers may actually have exposed it to at least as many casualties as it would...
President Nguyen Van Thieu took advantage of the improved military situation to announce that the next three months would be devoted to an all-out counterattack. Obviously worried that Washington might be on the verge of a ceasefire, Thieu evidently judged that if he is to survive politically, he must spur the military into making a genuine counteroffensive...
What happens next? The North's Vo Nguyen Giap has, in addition to his forces outside South Viet Nam, at least 80,000 men left within the country. Unless President Thieu and his forces can keep the North Vietnamese from forming up in battle strength again-or some sort of tentative cease-fire is agreed upon-most U.S. advisers in Saigon fully expect the North Vietnamese to strike once more, perhaps between mid-July and mid-September...
...lined up on the parade field at Bien Hoa airbase last week, as a spectators' section filled with high-ranking officers from the U.S. and South Vietnamese commands. General Creighton Abrams, newly appointed U.S. Army Chief of Staff, was there; so was Military Region III Commander Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh, who pinned the National Order of Viet Nam, fourth class, on the chest of Brigadier General James F. Hamlet, the 3rd Brigade commander. Then, while a pickup band played slightly off key, Hamlet slowly rolled up the brigade's guidon...
...civilians. Their primary hospital is now a bunker. Some men have been there for as long as a month, with more lightly wounded comrades cooking for them over smoky wood fires on the bunker steps. There is no sterilization for instruments, and there is a shortage of catgut. Dr. Nguyen Van Quy, who performed 200 operations in two months, has taken to using thread from sandbags for sutures...