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When Dzu flew to Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu flatly refused to see his embattled general. After 24 hours of waiting, Dzu flew back to his Military Region II headquarters, protesting that Steele had damaged "not only my honor as a general but also the honor of the Vietnamese army and the Vietnamese people...
Saigon is thus uneasy about reports that Washington is anxious to accelerate the U.S. withdrawal. During his stop in Saigon last week, Henry Kissinger assured President Nguyen Van Thieu that the U.S. is not about to "pull the plug." But he also warned Thieu that the U.S. withdrawal rate, now 14,300 a month, will probably jump to 20,000 after South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...
...scholars concluded that bombing of North Viet Nam was ineffective. NUCLEAR THREAT. According to the Pentagon papers, the U.S. was considering the use of nuclear weapons in the event of Chinese intervention in Viet Nam. In a conversation with South Viet Nam's then Premier Nguyen Khanh, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that if the planned U.S. military buildup triggered Chinese intervention, "we would not allow ourselves to be bled white while fighting them with conventional weapons." Rusk, however, was relatively restrained in comparison with many other ranking U.S. officials. Time and again, the Pentagon papers show that...
...Trang -thought the U.S. controlled the Saigon government. The general attitude was summarized by another opposition newspaper, Cong Luan, in an editorial on the presidential elections scheduled for October: "As to what candidate has the greatest chance for success, all Vietnamese agree with the Vice President [Nguyen Cao Ky] that the most trustworthy prophet is none other than [U.S. Ambassador] Ellsworth Bunker." Translation: Bunker knows because Bunker decides. A cartoon in Saigon's Tin Sang daily summarizes a widespread feeling; it shows Ambassador Bunker, called "the Father of the Country," rocking a cradle labeled "Viet...
...must stop the 'graspers.' To stop this corruption, we need the CIA, the FBI and the CID [the Army's Criminal Investigation Division]. Everything in Viet Nam is planned by the Americans, including who sits in the palace. If the Americans don't want Nguyen Van Thieu for President, he will leave-it is as simple as that. If they want to stop the corruption and the grasping, they...