Word: thieu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than two decades, South Viet Nam has never fully mobilized its resources to fight the Communists. It has, in fact, more or less tried to fight the war with one hand while the other went about its normal business. Now the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu, having decided to put the country on a full war footing for the first time, is not only out to raise the number of men in uniform to nearly 1,000,000 but to enforce an across-the-board tightening of the economy to pay for the mobilization. The job will...
...support of the country's press, its political parties, its churches. Even the militant Buddhists have not objected, which amounts to positive support from them. Virtually all members of the National Assembly back the idea-but the Assembly is jealous of its recently created powers. When Thieu last week sent the Assembly a terse, 60-word draft asking for authority to mobilize the country's manpower and resources, the Assembly balked at the lack of detail and the sweeping statement that "regulations to carry out this law will be determined by decrees." It shelved Thieu's draft...
...during a post-Tet "A to Z" reappraisal of the war by the Administration, to get the South Vietnamese ready to fend for themselves, as they would have had to do sooner or later. The decision was made possible by the improving ARVN itself, and by President Nguyen Van Thieu's recent general mobilization of Vietnamese men between 18 and 40, which will eventually create an ARVN of some...
...military experts see it, the Communists took crippling losses in the 40,000 of their soldiers killed during the Tet campaign and the 15,000 chewed up during their disastrous siege of the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh (see box). The Tet onslaughts failed to topple Thieu's government, failed to shatter ARVN, and, in fact, left it with more confidence than it had had before. The pacification program in the countryside turns out not to have been hit so hard as at first suspected: out of the 629 pre-Tet Revolutionary Development teams, 545 are back...
...Chinese professor from the University of Pennsylvania explained emotionally why he was afraid of communism. Another scholar, Dr. Huynh K. Khanh, who left South Vietnam in 1955, said that the Thieu-Ky regime is "nothing." He said he would like to see his country "taken out of this senseless ideological struggle." "You don't have to be a Communist," he added, "to see destruction and human suffering...