Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to be that General Vo Nguyen Giap's guerrilla manual was the main source of the U.S. military's woes in Viet Nam. Now the brass is worrying about the U.S. Army Regulations as well. With the help of U.S. civilian lawyers, a few G.I.s in Viet Nam have seized on a little-known passage in the "Army regs" section on conscientious objectors and tried to use it as a legal way out of combat...
...director of the Vietnamese press center, Nguyen Ngoc Huyen, has now told Luce that his press card will not be renewed. Huyen admitted to other correspondents that the reason was the tiger-cage story. The pro-government Saigon Post, an English-language newspaper, cheered: "The mills of the gods have finally caught up with Don Luce. This man was more dangerous to Viet Nam than a Stokely Carmichael. So we must kick him out, and any others like...
Time for Girls. When they want to, that is. Like their famed colleague, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, who also flew an A1, South Vietnamese pilots are flashy, hard-living and at times insubordinate. The Vietnamese pilot may refuse to make a tactical support strike if he does not happen to like the ground commander calling for one. "American pilots go wherever and whenever they are ordered, with no questions asked," says one South Vietnamese ground commander. "With the Vietnamese, you can never be sure. If you call for an air strike in the late afternoon, they will say that...
...Rejects demands to oust President Nguyen Van Thieu, Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky and Prime Minister Tran Thien Khiem, but makes no mention of keeping Communists out of the government that would be created to supervise elections. Previously, Washington has said that all "peaceful" political elements can participate; that, of course, could be interpreted to exclude any Communists who didn't agree to a ceasefire...
...Bruce patiently replied that the U.S. "will not take your comments today as your final position" and that "all proposals, yours as well as our own," are still open to discussion. Thus Nixon's program and an eight-point plan submitted by the Viet Cong's Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh last month remain the chief talking points-if the Communists intend to talk, that is. The main sticking points are still the withdrawal of U.S. troops and the end of support of the present Saigon regime...