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...South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu warned yesterday that South Vietnam "may be forced" to invade North Vietnam. He also defended incursions into Laos and Cambodia as "entirely for our protection...
Eight student members of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) are going to South Vietnam Friday to negotiate a "Peace and Justice Treaty" with President Nguyen Van Thieu...
Nixon also declined to shut the door on the possibility of a South Vietnamese invasion of the North-an idea that South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky has repeatedly mentioned. The President is aware that any full-fledged attack against North Viet Nam could draw China into the conflict, and he has taken extraordinary pains to reassure Peking that U.S. policy does not threaten its interests. But he also knows that three divisions of North Vietnamese regulars are massed just across the DMZ. To discourage Hanoi from sending them to attack the ARVN troops in Laos...
Increasingly, however, critics insist that the real reason for the Cambodia and Laos incursions and the wider use of airpower is not primarily to protect G.I.s on their way out of Viet Nam. It is, they argue, to buy time for President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime in Saigon and, to a lesser extent, for the government in Phnom-Penh. "The President appears to be imposing Thieu and his group on the South Vietnamese people," said Averell Harriman last week. "That's what Vietnamization amounts to." The Communists, for their part, of course, seem equally intent on deposing...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was quoted Thursday as saying that an invasion of the North was only a matter of time. Thieu's press secretary later said that the official South Vietnamese press agency had misquoted Thieu...