Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have never seen him refuse anything." SOUTH VIET NAM: From the moment he arrived at the presidential palace in Saigon until the moment of his departure, Agnew moved about under total security and in almost total public silence. Perhaps by design both Agnew and President Nguyen Van Thieu had chosen to speak out before his arrival. En route to Saigon, Agnew explicitly ruled out as a topic of conversation the timetable for American withdrawal from Viet Nam beyond that already announced by Nixon. Thieu made his opposite views known in an interview with TIME. "We need to know-not publicly...
...General Vo Nguyen Giap December...
...overshadowed, however, by intense diplomatic activity. As Secretary of State William P. Rogers wound up his 15-day, five-nation Asian tour, he spoke of "further political initiatives that might be taken for peace." These words, combined with other comments by U.S. officials, led the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu to wonder if Washington was thinking of a coalition government for South Viet...
...Including Hanoi's figurehead President Ton Due Thang, Premier Pham Van Dong and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris peace talks. Alumni from Saigon include Phan Khac Suu, chief of state in 1965, and Truong Dinh Dzu, unsuccessful peace candidate in the 1967 presidential elections...
...itself only too eager to conduct the war outside its own country; its operations in Cambodia have greatly raised its morale. But if Saigon commits large numbers of men to fighting in Cambodia, the job of bringing security to South Viet Nam will inevitably be slowed. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, no doubt reacting in part to U.S. warnings about such a hazard, last week promised: "I do not lead this country toward a bogging down in the war, nor do I lead the army into uncalculated adventurous moves...