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...South Viet Nam, based on the mission to Saigon of Army Chief of Staff General Frederick C. Weyand and the resulting options prepared by the National Security Council. Briefing the press after meeting with Weyand, Kissinger gave no hint that the U.S. has any intention of abandoning President Thieu. Asked about Thieu's charge that Americans could be called "traitors" if they fail to help his government more, Kissinger dismissed such talk as that of "a desperate man, in some anguish...
...setback piled on setback, almost too rapidly for comprehension, only one thing was clear: the strategic retreat ordered by South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, supposedly to tighten up his defenses against the Communists, had developed into a human tragedy of colossal proportions. These were the major developments...
POLITICAL BATTLE. In Saigon, pressure mounted on Thieu to resign. The usually docile Vietnamese Senate, in the first opposition action it has ever taken, unanimously passed a resolution calling for "a new leadership" for South Viet Nam. The Senate blamed the President for the current debacle, charging him with "counting exclusively on a military solution" to solve "a war with many political characteristics." Thieu, the resolution said, was guilty of "abuse of power, corruption and social injustice." Though the resolution did not specifically demand Thieu's ouster, more than 20 of the 41 Senators voting for the resolution called...
...Thieu's response was a characteristically confusing combination of compromise and repression. After remaining in virtual seclusion for most of the week, he announced that an entirely new Cabinet, what he called a "fighting Cabinet," would be formed. The new Prime Minister would be Nguyen Ba Can, speaker of the lower house in the National Assembly and known to be solidly in Thieu's camp. Can will replace the more independent and prestigious Tran Thieu Khiem, the most senior military officer in South Viet Nam, who, significantly, was expected to join the anti-Thieu opposition. Hours earlier, police had arrested...
There were some brave attempts to rally confidence. In a television speech beamed from Saigon, President Thieu aggressively, if unconvincingly, declared, "We must attack and retake the lands captured by the Communists." General Frederick C. Weyand, U.S. Army Chief of Staff who last week ended a seven-day visit to Viet Nam undertaken at President Ford's request, confidently told newsmen that ARVN "still has the spirit and the capability to defeat the North Vietnamese...