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...South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu warned yesterday that South Vietnam "may be forced" to invade North Vietnam. He also defended incursions into Laos and Cambodia as "entirely for our protection...
...attack on North Vietnam could occur if the North Vietnamese "put us in a position which forces us to think about that option to legitimately defend ourselves," Thieu said...
Increasingly, however, critics insist that the real reason for the Cambodia and Laos incursions and the wider use of airpower is not primarily to protect G.I.s on their way out of Viet Nam. It is, they argue, to buy time for President Nguyen Van Thieu's regime in Saigon and, to a lesser extent, for the government in Phnom-Penh. "The President appears to be imposing Thieu and his group on the South Vietnamese people," said Averell Harriman last week. "That's what Vietnamization amounts to." The Communists, for their part, of course, seem equally intent on deposing...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu was quoted Thursday as saying that an invasion of the North was only a matter of time. Thieu's press secretary later said that the official South Vietnamese press agency had misquoted Thieu...
...Laos invasion may have been widely advertised, but no effort was spared to give it a soft-sell atmosphere. The announcement came not from Washington but from South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. The American code name for the operation, Dewey Canyon II. was replaced by a Vietnamese name: Lam Son 719.* The switch was part of the coy effort to cast the invasion as an all-South Vietnamese effort, though it was initiated, planned and given the go-ahead in the White House, and was overseen by General Creighton W. Abrams. U.S. commander in South Viet...