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Voronel was forced to resign from his position at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and was further harrassed by a draft call for active duty despite his age (41 years) and a previous exemption due to a chronic back problem. The upper age limit for military service...
While many Vietnamese were trying to find some way to leave their nation, President Thieu was insisting that he would stay-much to the dismay of a growing number of his countrymen. Last week the United Buddhist Church called on Thieu to resign. The An Quang Pagoda faction, representing the most outspoken element of the country's Buddhists, has long opposed the President. So have a number of leading Roman Catholics, members of the National Assembly, former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and such advocates of the "third force" as General Duong Van ("Big") Minh...
POLITICAL BATTLE. In Saigon, pressure mounted on Thieu to resign. The usually docile Vietnamese Senate, in the first opposition action it has ever taken, unanimously passed a resolution calling for "a new leadership" for South Viet Nam. The Senate blamed the President for the current debacle, charging him with "counting exclusively on a military solution" to solve "a war with many political characteristics." Thieu, the resolution said, was guilty of "abuse of power, corruption and social injustice." Though the resolution did not specifically demand Thieu's ouster, more than 20 of the 41 Senators voting for the resolution called...
Despite the talk that he may leave the country, there was some evidence indicating Lon Nol may make a last-ditch political stand. This apparently is behind last week's decision by Lon Non, the President's ambitious and ruthless younger brother, to resign from a top army command and seek the post of secretary-general of the Social-Republican Party, the rightist backbone of Lon Nol's political support. Lon Non won a reputation for brutality when, as head of the national police, he violently suppressed student demonstrations...
...press conference last week, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had an answer ready for one question he was not asked. The question: "Will you resign because your Middle East shuttle failed and American foreign policy is in disarray?" The answer...