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Really Encouraged. Leaving Judy behind, Agnew flew to Saigon on New Year's Day for a 24-hour visit. General Creighton Abrams, U.S. commander in Viet Nam, was too ill with pneumonia to confer with him, but Agnew was warmly received by President Nguyen Van Thieu. "The hawk," a palace aide said later, "is always welcome." Agnew brought no specific message from Nixon. However, he assured Thieu that U.S. withdrawal would be gradual...
...Saigon parlance, the lower house of South Viet Nam's National Assembly is "the kindergarten" and the upper house "the old people's home." President Nguyen Van Thieu obviously agrees with this derisive view. In the past year, his relations with both houses of the legislature have grown increasingly bitter and suspicious. Last week, in a vote that brought the fight into the open and sowed the seeds of future battles, the lower house yielded halfway-but no more-to a campaign of unprecedented presidential pressure. By separate majority votes, it approved a report that accused three members...
Valuable Vitamins. Legislators, for their part, accuse Thieu not only of seeking dictatorial powers but also of using underhanded methods to increase his influence. His chief legislative liaison, a millionaire pharmacy owner named Nguyen Cao Thang, is famous for dispensing "Tran Hung Dao vitamins," named after the ancient general pictured on South Viet Nam's 500-piastre notes (worth $1.50 on the free market). To be sure, all too few legislators reject the prescription...
...Communist troops began to mass around Bu Prang and Due Lap, American commanders warned Colonel Vo Van Canh, the commander of the 23rd division, that they would give him air and artillery support, but that he would have to handle the ground fighting himself. Under personal pressure from President Nguyen Van Thieu to seize the initiative, Canh ordered the 23rd to ferret out the North Vietnamese before they could mount an attack. In a series of daily skirmishes, Colonel Canh's troopers swept the wooded ridge lines of the Central Highlands, preventing the enemy from concerted attack. The enemy...
TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter submitted a list of questions concerning settlement of the war to Nguyen Huu Tho, President of the National Liberation Front, who recently visited Moscow. Tho has operated for the past few years from a succession of hidden bunkers and jungle camps, and is the chief political voice of the Viet Cong guerrillas. His replies, returned to Moscow in writing last week, showed no departure from the hard line, and thus confirm Nixon's pessimism about a negotiated settlement...