Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...military had already been long at work on upgrading South Vietnamese forces. But the enemy's winter offensive was soon in progress. When the attacks abated somewhat, firm plans could be made to begin supplanting American troops with South Vietnamese...
Unless the Communists remain altogether intransigent, however, President Nixon will be able to continue on the course he has set toward disengaging U.S. forces and replacing them with South Vietnamese. In the hope of obtaining peace, he has called a halt to the strategy that began in 1965 when Lyndon Johnson ordered massive increases in the U.S. troop commitment to Viet Nam. Though Johnson himself began to brake the process last year, reversing such momentum completely is difficult?all the more so because so many American lives have been invested in it. But it has become clear that such...
...January, when he acquired both the responsibility and the information to deal with the war's intricacies, Nixon felt that he should not meet with South Viet Nam's Nguyen Van Thieu until well after he had publicly outlined his own ideas on ending the war. Then, early in May, the Viet Cong proposed its ten-point plan in Paris, and less than a week later the President responded with his own eight-point proposal (TIME, May 23). The prospect for movement was growing faster than Nixon had anticipated. The meeting with Thieu, first planned for July...
...picked her way through the island's ubiquitous gooney birds in search of one. After 45 minutes, she returned. While they waited, the two Presidents talked of problems of military leadership and negotiating strategy. Later in the day they would discuss political conditions and economic reform in South Viet Nam. But the main business at hand was that of troop replacement and they took a break to go into the bright sunlight and face the press. Nixon began what may some day be viewed as an historic statement: "I have decided to order the immediate redeployment from Viet...
...These prerequisites usually rule out federal nations, healthy democracies and protected client states. Europe, he observes, has had only three successful coups-in Czechoslovakia, Greece and Turkey-during tie past 24 years. By contrast, numerous regimes in Africa and Latin America offer what Luttwak calls "gratifying" opportunities. So does South Viet Nam, provided that the U.S. winks at the plotters (as it did when President Ngo Dinh Diem fell...