Word: thieu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the same problem in this campaign. He spends most of his time blasting Nixon and his Administration without delivering carefully thought-out talks. Time and time again he calls the Nixon Administration "the most corrupt in the history of American politics." He has repeatedly called President Thieu "savage and corrupt and immoral." These rhetorical excesses, while perhaps satisfying to many of his more committed supporters, do little to convince people to support him. Most people who vote in American presidential elections want a moderate candidate, and McGovern does little in his public orating to discourage claims that...
Waving a forest of NLF flags and picket signs, the matchers chanted "Dump Nixon, Dump Thieu, End the War in '72," Picket signs read "Trick or Treaty" and "Nixon Eats Shit--$1000 a Plate...
More simply, Thieu could threaten to embarrass Nixon by loudly rejecting the Kissinger plan and vowing to carry on the fight against the Communists alone. The Administration might find it difficult politically to cut off U.S. aid to Saigon under those circumstances. But it could effectively counter by threatening to negotiate a bilateral, separate peace with Hanoi-a possibility that worries many South Vietnamese...
...week's end, the great Saigon tug of war spilled into a fourth day with no announced end to the maneuvering, while Kissinger flew off, apparently to Cambodia, for additional parleys. The word was out that Thieu had reluctantly agreed on at least one part of the plan: the ceasefire. But he was also said to be digging in against other key provisions of the Kissinger agreement that the Communists certainly regard as vital. Thieu was reportedly unhappy about the caretaker-government provision and adamantly opposed to any basic change in the present constitution that might open...
...Thieu knows as well as anybody that his survival rests ultimately with the U.S. Like Diem before him, he could be removed if the U.S. so decreed. Since the Kissinger plan does, indeed, ultimately and inherently decree that, the real question is the manner of his going -with dignity or defiance, restraint or rebellion. The man of caution is being tested as never before...