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...Under no circumstances would I put down in any way the gallant and courageous returned prisoners [March 19]. The contrast, however, between our happy and apparently healthy P.O.W.s, and the "grotesque sculptures of scarred flesh and gnarled limbs" who have been "politically re-educated" by Mr. Thieu, might make one more prayer of thanksgiving seem in order: "Dear God, thank you for allowing me to be captured by the enemy, and not by the friends I was sent to fight...
When South Viet Nam President Nguyen Van Thieu arrived at San Clemente, Calif., last week, he was warmly greeted with VIP pomp and red-carpet ceremony, including a 21-gun salute. He and President Nixon traded speeches and smiles as 500 Nixon neighbors cheered and waved miniature South Vietnamese and American flags supplied by White House aides. After a two-day meeting with the President, Thieu and his 70 aides and bodyguards flew to Washington, where he embarked on an even more elaborate round of events. A formal dinner with Vice President Agnew as host was only...
...might help stabilize the situation in neighboring South Vietnam. The recent attacks on the helicopters of the International Control Commission by the forces of the Provisional Revolutionary Government underscore the extremely tense situation in South Vietnam. President Nixon's less than veiled threat during South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu's visit to San Clemente last week to resume U.S. air bombardment in Vietnam can only serve to make the Saigon leader more adventurous...
...before the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops, Thieu appeared near the U.S. headquarters to lay the cornerstone for a memorial to the 46,000 Americans killed in the war. "Many times in this century the United States has sent her sons across the oceans to help oppose aggression," Thieu said, "but nowhere was their valiant participation so long and so trying as in Viet Nam. The Vietnamese people will never forget...
...Thieu's new confidence is not baseless. If the Paris agreement has not ended the fighting, it has also not led to the political upheavals that many observers in both Washington and Saigon feared might soon overwhelm Thieu. Saigon's 1,100,000-man military machine, the basis of Thieu's strength, has not collapsed; indeed, ARVN desertions have declined since the ceasefire. Thieu is also cheered by the unexpected ease with which his forces have retaken almost all of the 400 villages that were seized by the Communists in the confusion following the Jan. 23 initialing...