Word: thieu
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...Communists hoped their offensive would spark an uprising against the government of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. It did not: the invaders were thrown back, suffering disastrous casualties. Yet for the brilliant North Vietnamese commander, General Vo Nguyan Giap, Tet was an important symbolic victory. American confidence in the war effort, and in the leadership that had promised success, was irrevocably shattered. The images of war -- always shocking, bleak, agonizingly poignant -- took on a darker significance. "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it," declared a U.S. major in the battle for Ben Tre, a provincial capital...
South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu appealed for the American help to which he was entitled by the Paris treaty--and to which South Viet Nam had grown addicted. But the U.S. Congress, long since weary of Viet Nam, refused it. On April 21, Thieu resigned and a few days later flew to Taipei, reportedly shipping out a retirement fund of 3 1/2 tons of gold...
NGUYEN VAN THIEU...
Former South Vietnamese President Thieu remains "disillusioned," as a former government colleague puts it, over the U.S. refusal to rescue his collapsing government. Thieu, 62, lives quietly somewhere near London, but his seclusion has fostered resentment among Britain's 15,000 Vietnamese emigres. Says Tong Van Tran, head of London's Vietnamese Refugee Committee: "Thieu transferred a lot of money from South Viet Nam. But he hasn't helped, even one pence...
...complement the extraordinary plentitude and quality of footage, the producers conducted over 300 interviews, 100 in Vietnam. Interviewees include top brass from the period in North and South Vietnam and America, and only former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu refused interviews. Equally important are the discussions with numerous combatants and non-combatants on both sides...