Word: thieu
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...July a high Viet Cong agent told Prof. Robert Brown of Farleigh Dickinson College that the NLF would agree to district by district elections to form a coalition government. The offer was later made officially to Saigon. On August 28, the South Vietnamese chief of state, Major General Van Thieu, replied: "The terms neutrality and democratic coalition, a pet phrase of Communists everywhere, reveal more clearly their real evil intentions and their desperate condition...
...hands, is the most stable that it has been since 1960. From time to time, there are complaints that it is too stable, precisely because the military junta is running it, and that civilians ought to be in charge. Ky's Chief of State, Major General Nguyen Van Thieu, answers that bluntly: "I don't believe that any civilian government would have enough power to fight the Communists...
Working Together. Perhaps the best measure that the nation increasingly shares Ky's credo is the fact that negotiation with the Viet Cong is seldom even discussed. "The only way we can lose this war now," says Thieu, "is in a political or moral way - not in a tactical way. So why should any of us talk of negotiation? If we talk about negotiation now, we give the enemy hope and confidence." Still no one in Saigon - or Washington - has any illusions about the job remaining to be done. General Harold K. Johnson, Army Chief of Staff, used...
...week, the allies' combined strength rose to nearly 750,000. Orders for the Vietnamese forces issue from the quiet, air-conditioned offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, two acres of yellow stucco French colonial buildings in Saigon that once housed the French high command. Chief of State Thieu heads it. Downtown, in his offices on Pasteur Street, the American commander in Viet Nam, General William C. West moreland (TIME cover, Feb. 19), presides over the complex of U.S. commands ranging from Lieut. General Joseph Moore's 2nd Air Division to Major General Lewis Walt's Third...
...three left last week on an inspection and consultation trip to Saigon, where they conferred with Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu, and will not return to Washington until this week. Before he left Washington, McNamara confirmed that the upcoming decisions might include "calling up Reserve and Guard forces, extending the tours of duty of personnel presently in the forces, and increasing the draft calls...