Word: nguyens
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...minutes, the American G.I.s drove around looking for the thief. Then they came roaring back down Gia Long street. A 15-year-old student named Nguyen Van Minh was sitting on a fence outside the Tay Son High School, smoking and reading as he waited for his afternoon classes. From the back of the U.S. truck, a soldier raised his M-16 and sent a rifle shot into the boy's forehead. Minh slumped forward, the back of his skull blown away. "His brain broke out," said a stunned eyewitness...
Thuy and Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the National Liberation Front delegation, indicated that North Vietnam and the NLF were prepared to give American troops safe conduct out of South Vietnam in return for a commitment to a total and unconditional withdrawal...
...find. President Nixon has pronounced himself pleased with their patience, but their patience is wearing thin. Increasingly, some of the wives complain that the U.S. Government is not doing enough. Some of them have been driven to espouse the offer put forward by the Viet Cong's Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh in Paris last September: that talks on releasing the prisoners would begin when the U.S. agreed to withdrawal within a set period. Says Mrs. Frankie Ford of Orange Park, Fla.: "If it is true that they will not be released until the U.S. gets out, then...
Once there was a Vietnamese pilot-politician who wore a violet scarf with his jumpsuit, tossed off remarks about Hitler's good points, and generally seemed to make himself the personification of a great deal that is wrong in Saigon. Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky is no longer so psychedelic in speech and dress. Still, he is such an easy target for peace partisans in the U.S. that when he was invited to address a pro-war rally in Washington in October, the Nixon Administration deflected the pre-election visit. As consolation, Henry Kissinger promised Ky an official invitation...
...possibility of Ky's opposing President Nguyen Van Thieu was raised several times during the visit. Ky has chafed in the secondary role he has been forced to play during the past three years. Ky would like U.S. support-or at least neutrality-concerning his political ambitions. But one congenial encounter with Senator Fulbright is not likely to erase the liability of Ky's old image, and that, coupled with President Nixon's frequently stated respect for Thieu, probably makes his quest quite futile...