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Despite the patriarchal influence of Chinese Confucianism, the strongly Confucianist legal code of 19th Century Nguyen dynasty had to respect the economic role of Vietnamese women, she added. For example, the code forbade a husband from divorcing his wife if she had already made him rich through her labor...
...Lines. South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu exaggerated only slightly when he declared that "there is no cease-fire at all." The ICCS chairman, Michel Gauvin of Canada, agreed. "The Joint Military Commission has as yet failed to get an effective cease-fire all over the country," he said. "It has failed to establish lines of demarcation between troops." Indeed, although the level of fighting was declining, there still were some 180 clashes a day-well above the level of many of the quieter periods of the war. For the entire cease-fire period so far, Saigon...
...Paris antagonist, Le Due Tho. In three days of intensive talks, he was to meet Le Duan, the Communist Party leader, and Premier Pham Van Dong. The North Vietnamese had sought this visit with some urgency, possibly as a means of worrying South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Hanoi can also use any rapprochement with Washington to give it more flexibility in dealing with both Moscow and Peking...
Besides all that, President Nguyen Van Thieu's government is due to start bilateral talks with the Viet Cong (more properly, the Provisional Revolutionary Government) in Paris this week. The goal: to create a National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord, which is supposed to supervise free elections. Then there is a 13-member international guarantee conference, due to convene...
BASED on past experience," South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu declared recently, referring to the 1954 Geneva agreement, "we cannot rely too much on international treaties, for the Communists do not respect them. Nor can we rely too much on the International Control Commission." More pointedly he advised his countrymen: "If a stranger enters your village, shoot him in the head...