Word: nguyens
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South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu now regards the Mekong Delta as the "main front" of the current war-even though the Delta does not have, in the strictest sense, a battle front. Long considered the country's most secure region, the Delta is crucial to both sides; more than a third of South Viet Nam's population lives there, and it grows 80% of the country's rice. As the conventional war to the north remained stalemated last week, attention shifted to the south, where Communist guerrillas are still waging what TIME Correspondent...
...forces at An Loc; five other regiments in the Delta have been assigned to guard the major infiltration route from Cambodia, where two North Vietnamese divisions are trying to cross the frontier into South Viet Nam. "If I can contain the enemy to the north," says Lieut. General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, 39, commander of Military Region IV (the Delta), "I will have no problem with the forces inside the country...
Partly because of the attrition caused by the bombing raids, and partly because of the deliberate caution of North Viet Nam's General Vo Nguyen Giap. Communist main-force attacks have recently been replaced by a campaign of probes, sapper assaults and artillery barrages. The Communists' failure to follow up initial advantages suggested that they might indeed be running out of steam, but the situation in the three main trouble spots remained ambiguous...
...arduous problem now existing between the two sides is the problem of power in South Viet Nam," said Le Due Tho, the chief North Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris peace talks during a recent press conference. What he meant by that diplomatic euphemism is the possible replacement of President Nguyen Van Thieu's government by a broader-based regime. Thieu, with the long war in Indochina winding slowly toward some sort of resolution, has become the sticking point in any serious peace discussions...
...NGUYEN VAN HUYEN, 58, president of the South Viet Nam Senate. A Catholic, an intellectual and a Southerner, Huyen has been able to get along with Thieu without sacrificing his independence, and he is widely regarded as the Vatican's spokesman in Saigon. Under the constitution he would automatically become chief executive in the event of the resignation or death of the President and Vice President...