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When South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu arrived at San Clemente, Calif., last week, he was warmly greeted with VIP pomp and red-carpet ceremony, including a 21-gun salute. He and President Nixon traded speeches and smiles as 500 Nixon neighbors cheered and waved miniature South Vietnamese and American flags supplied by White House aides. After a two-day meeting with the President, Thieu and his 70 aides and bodyguards flew to Washington, where he embarked on an even more elaborate round of events. A formal dinner with Vice President Agnew as host was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomat Thieu | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...Martin will carry out his own strategies remains to be seen, of course, but the Saigon government apparently welcomes him. "Oh, he's going to be great," said one confidant of President Nguyen Van Thieu. "Martin is a hawk, you know." Perhaps the aide forgot that Cardinal Richelieu is remembered not for open fighting but for his skill in maneuvering others to work his will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Changing the Guard | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

...particular it might help stabilize the situation in neighboring South Vietnam. The recent attacks on the helicopters of the International Control Commission by the forces of the Provisional Revolutionary Government underscore the extremely tense situation in South Vietnam. President Nixon's less than veiled threat during South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu's visit to San Clemente last week to resume U.S. air bombardment in Vietnam can only serve to make the Saigon leader more adventurous...

Author: By Jim Blum, | Title: Spreading Aggravation | 4/13/1973 | See Source »

...months he had been a solitary, even hostile figure. He raged privately at the Kissinger negotiations when they were under way; he jeered publicly after the Paris agreement was finally signed, declaring that "there is no ceasefire at all." But lately South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu has been sounding a different note. By the time he arrives this week in San Clemente, Calif., to begin a six-day visit to the U.S., the man who has personally benefited most from a decade of American involvement in Indochina will have completed a remarkable transformation from a sore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The New Thieu | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...Besides Rogers of the U.S., Gromyko of the U.S.S.R., Chi of China, Lam of South Viet Nam, Binh of the Viet Cong and Sharp of Canada, the others were North Viet Nam's Nguyen Duy Trinh, France's Maurice Schumann, Britain's Alec Douglas-Home, Indonesia's Adam Malik, Poland's Stefan Olszowski and Hungary's Janos Peter. The U.N.'s Kurt Waldheim was present but did not sign the pact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: After a Mini-Crisis, a Modest Forward Step | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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