Word: nguyens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Communists' threat to Cambodia's present government presents a dilemma for almost everyone involved in the Indochinese war. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu has said that a Communist regime in neighboring Phnom-Penh would be "intolerable." The anti-Communist government of Thailand would be scarcely less horrified by such a prospect. When Richard Nixon ordered U.S. troops into the border sanctuaries in eastern Cambodia on April 30, he warned that the Communist occupation of all Cambodia "would mean that South Viet Nam was completely outflanked and the forces of Americans in this area as well...
...northeastern Cambodia and southern Laos. In recent weeks, groups of North Vietnamese regulars have raided the picturesque lakeside resort of Dalat in the Central Highlands three times. Their most recent attacks were aimed at the airport, the National Military Academy and a government-owned villa where Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky frequently vacations. After killing at least 17 South Vietnamese, the Communists holed up in three Roman Catholic institutions and pinned down government forces from sharpshooter vantage points for most of a day before slipping away early last week. Though U.S. advisers were infuriated by the escape, it appears that...
...troops would quit Cambodia by July 1 and added that he "would expect that the South Vietnamese would come out approximately at the same time that we do because when we come out our logistical support and air support will also come out with them." Three days later, President Nguyen Van Thieu said that his troops faced no deadline and that they would feel free to return later whenever asked to do so by the Cambodian government...
...Cambodian high," as the phenomenon was beginning to be called, had a dramatic effect on ARVN morale. "When we went across the border," says President Nguyen Van Thieu, "I had almost every general in the country calling me on the phone, saying 'I want to go to Cambodia.'" Ordinarily, 600 ARVN troops would show up for a 4th Marine Battalion roll call in Saigon; last week, after word arrived that the 4th was headed for Cambodia, all 800 showed...
...generals were being detained in the presidential palace by one of the factions backing the late President Ngo Dinh Diem, Tri telephoned a brash ultimatum: "Free the generals in one half-hour or I will destroy the palace and everything inside it." One of the rescued generals was Nguyen Van Vy, now South Viet Nam's Defense Minister...