Word: resignment
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...attack on the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, 160 miles north of Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced by his aging, ineffectual Vice President, Tran Van Huong, who in turn gave way after just six days to the only man thought to have a chance of negotiating a ceasefire: Buddhist opposition leader Duong Van ("Big") Minh. His presidential tenure proved...
...RESIGNATION. Huong, under pressure from U.S. Ambassador Graham Martin and Saigon leaders to resign, capitulated at about 4:30 Sunday afternoon, saying that he would transfer the presidency to the "personality" chosen by South Viet Nam's legislature?and "the sooner the better." Hours later, the National Assembly voted 134 to 2 to give the job to Big Minh...
Kissinger, it can safely be said, will not resign. He wants to finish the term with Ford-if the President wants him, and Kissinger has no doubts now that Ford does. The Secretary might have resigned if Nixon had survived Watergate, or if he himself had succeeded in the Middle East and Viet Nam had not gone under. But now he will not, even though he has accumulated some rather impressive enemies, which was perhaps inevitable once Nixon left the scene...
...Martin was grim. For months he had been the most diehard American supporter of Thieu. Now he had a bitter task. He was conveying a message that had originated with the Viet Cong's representatives in Paris: beginning midnight Sunday, Thieu had exactly 48 hours to resign, or Saigon would be leveled...
...considered sufficient grounds for his dismissal. The force behind the coup was the 25-member Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. The Council, which is dominated by young left-wing military officers, had been trying to ease Lopez out of power since last March, when they forced him to resign his position as chief of the armed forces. Last week they named Colonel Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, 44, as new chief of state...