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June 8, 1969. Nixon meets Thieu on Midway and announces U.S. force of 541,000 will be reduced by 25,000 before September...
September 1967. U.S. organizes nationwide elections to provide "self-determination" for South Viet Nam. General Thieu wins easily...
...Quang, a militant Buddhist monk, spearheaded his church's noisy protest movement against a succession of Saigon governments. Intense and ardent, an excellent organizer, Tri Quang inspired the beginning of the Buddhist demonstrations against Diem in 1963, followed through in 1965 and 1966 against Premier Ky and President Thieu. As the latter solidified his power, Tri Quang drifted back to his pagoda in Saigon. Now he is studying Buddhist scriptures, toying with a stamp collection and perhaps thinking out ways to deal with a new government...
...since 1965. Even after all the destruction, Viet Nam remains, at least by Asian standards, a basically rich country, capable of rapid agricultural and industrial regeneration. How fast it will recuperate depends on how long it has some semblance of peace and political stability. President Thieu's political leadership may soon be finished. He will have a difficult time dominating the divergent political and religious factions that will become increasingly active when the cease-fire starts. Thieu is already toying with the idea of resigning and turning the government over to a committee until he can be re-elected President...
...Many of Thieu's opponents sense his political weakness, and rumors of a coup are circulating for the first time in a year. Who could succeed Thieu? One name often mentioned is that of General Duong Van Minh ("Big Minh"), who is a former chief of state. Other possibilities: former Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky; Au Truong Thanh, a former high official who was exiled to Paris in 1968 as a neutralist; Nguyen Van Huyen, president of the South Viet Nam Senate; Tran Thien Khiem, the country's Premier; and Tran Van Tuyen, an anti-Thieu member of the South...