Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...league to take a more activist role. A handful of members picketed the White House. Campaign-style buttons appeared on lapels-P.O.W.-M.I.A.S NUMBER ONE, NOT THIEU-a reflection of concern that the Administration is using the issue of the prisoners' release to win more time for Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government. A splinter group, P.O.W.-M.I.A. Families for Immediate Release, offered anti-Administration position papers, and urged the league to shift from a strictly humanitarian to a frankly political stance by demanding that Nixon negotiate the prisoners' release without regard to Thieu...
SOUTH Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu took no chances on the outcome of this week's one-man presidential election. To ensure that the voting would be undisturbed by demonstrators or the Viet Cong, he ordered soldiers, police and armed recruits of the Popular Self-Defense Force to patrol the streets and shoot to kill if necessary. As voters went to the polls, whole blocks of Saigon were barricaded or strung with barbed wire. Thieu also refrained from setting his sights too high; he declared that an even 50% of the vote would give him sufficient mandate...
...supremely confident President Nguyen Van Thieu went through all the motions of campaigning last week, despite the fact that his name will be the only one on the ballot when South Viet Nam's voters go to the polls on Sunday. He sipped rice wine with Montagnard tribesmen in the Central Highlands, popped up in Pleiku for a "nonpolitical" medal-pinning ceremony, and went on radio to demand of the voters: "I want to know your clear-cut attitude; either you have confidence...
...fact the only thing that appeared to unsettle him was a charge by Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky that Thieu so feared for his safety that he slept in different places. Thieu took pains to assert publicly that "I spend every day and every night in the Independence Palace...
...practical effect, but nonetheless revealed a considerable depth of political feeling. Said Senate First Vice President Huynh Van Cao, a retired general and friend of Thieu's: "President Nixon can support President Thieu, but President Nixon cannot force the Vietnamese people to support President Thieu." Added Senator Nguyen Van Chuc: "Thieu can claim he has 60 or 70 or even 97 percent of the votes of confidence, but the question is: who will believe these claims? There is a chance President Nixon alone will believe in them...