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...withdrawal. Now, in a switch that may shake his conservative support by seeming to renege on his principles, Jackson no longer will even back the Administration's request for $300 million in additional aid to South Viet Nam, arguing that "it has to end somewhere." Says Jackson: "The Thieu government is repressive. We had these promises that he would liberalize and broaden his base, but it just didn't happen...
Even by the standards of war-torn South Viet Nam, the internal rumblings in Saigon seemed like a poor way to prepare for this week's lunar New Year's holiday. Catholic leaders, aided by students and opposition politicians, denounced South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu as an "enemy of peace." Proclaimed their "indictment," which was reprinted in several Saigon newspapers: "It is impossible to obtain peace with Thieu, because he is a product of war, was nurtured on it and survived with it." The President's response was swift and predictable. The Saigon government confiscated nine...
...member of the audience responded that "most people would want to see the Thieu government fall." McLucas asked whom the questioner meant by "most people" and was answered by applause from the audience, indicating they support the toppling of Thieu...
...money to help anti-Communist forces in both Viet Nam and Cambodia came from President Gerald Ford. In a coordinated drive, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger added their personal public appeals. Even Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu suddenly submitted to interviews with a dozen newsmen. The net impression was that the nation was once again caught up in a divisive war debate...
Whole World. Speaking in his Saigon palace to TIME Correspondent Peter Range, Thieu put the issue more starkly. "Do the American people like the sacrifice of 50,000 American boys to be in vain? How can you imagine coming here just to run and abandon the men who continue your ideals?" If the U.S. abandons Viet Nam, as the French did in 1954, Thieu insisted apocalyptically, "all Viet Nam will be a Communist country. All Indochina. All Southeast Asia. The whole world...