Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ALONGSIDE the broad, American-built expressway between Saigon and Bien Hoa, President Nguyen Van Thieu's eager campaign workers have already hung banners emblazoned with Thieu's "Four Nos" slogan-no neutrality, no coalition government, no concession of any South Vietnamese territory to the Communists, no Communist activity anywhere in South Viet Nam. Thieu might as well have added a Fifth No: no opposition in the presidential campaigns...
...week's end, Ky announced that he would defer a final decision. Nevertheless, it was understood that he intended to call for a three-month postponement of the election. He was also expected to propose that both he and Thieu resign, and that Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the Senate, become Acting President in order to organize a new election. For the moment, only one thing seemed certain: despite all the maneuvering to restore the appearance of a real race, the election still bore little resemblance to the "self-determination" that Washington politicians talk of when they explain...
THERE was always something fundamentally unworkable about the script for South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October. Authored in part by U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, the plan called for an earnestly contested race among three candidates-President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and retired four-star General Duong Van ("Big") Minh. If Thieu won a reasonably honest election, the scenario went, the Administration could declare Vietnamization a resounding success and step up the pace of its withdrawal from the longest war in U.S. history...
When he turned up for a packed press conference in a wing of Saigon's Independence Palace last week, South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was clad in an outfit that had everything. It was a light blue, double-breasted, bell-bottomed suit with brass buttons-not quite Western, not exactly the Nehru or Mao style, not really a military tunic, but a little bit of each. Above all, it was distinctive and snappy. So was Ky, as he fought for his political life in the wake of his exclusion by the Supreme Court from...
...Coups and rumors of coups have been an established part of Viet Nam's political life-style since the overthrow and murder of Ngo Dinh Diem in November 1963. In the current supercharged atmosphere many observers have noted a chilling similarity between then and now. Like Diem, President Nguyen Van Thieu has become increasingly isolated from the realities of Viet Nam and dependent on a small group of advisers who, in the opinion of one former Diem official, are "too self-confident and judge too subjectively." But, unlike 1963, Thieu's government enjoys strong U.S. backing...