Word: truong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gamut of Problems. In Saigon, reaction to Thieu's move was mixed. Mrs. Kieu Mong Thu, a militant Buddhist member of the National Assembly, said that "President Thieu should have thought of this measure sooner." Supporters of Lawyer Truong Dinh Dzu, the runner-up in the 1967 presidential elections who campaigned on a peace platform and is now in jail, reminded the world that Dzu was sentenced to five years at hard labor last year for suggesting direct talks with the N.L.F. "Thieu should get ten years," said a Saigon politician. A leader of the North Vietnamese Catholic refugees...
...into battle and when to stay home. The husbands listen. Officers' wives follow their husbands to the battlefield and sometimes share their fate. Duong Thi Kim Thanh was a former airborne nurse and South Viet Nam's first woman parachutist. She regularly accompanied her husband, Brigadier General Truong Quang An, to the front, carrying a commando's short-stock M-16 rifle in one hand and cakes and gifts for the troops in the other. Two months ago, she and her husband were both killed in a helicopter crash en route to the besieged Special Forces camp...
During last September's elections in South Viet Nam, Truong Dinh Dzu was a "peace candidate" for President, and he advocated a coalition government with the Communists. He came in second, after President Nguyen Van Thieu. Later he was arrested, charged with "actions which weakened the will of the people to fight against the Communists," and last month was sentenced to five years in prison. Last week Dzu's lovely daughter Monique Dinh Dzu, 22, a teaching aide at U.C.L.A., arrived in Chicago with an appeal for the Democratic Convention to condemn that ac tion. In a press...
...Viet Nam and hinted that he might raise the level of fighting (see THE WORLD), Humphrey has been moving slowly toward the position of critics like Eugene McCarthy. Goaded by McCarthy last week, he took mild issue with the Saigon government's five-year jail sentence for Truong Dinh Dzu, the peace candidate and runner-up in last year's presidential election, who advocated negotiation with the Viet Cong. Humphrey hinted, delicately, that he might even agree with Dzu. "What I'm saying," he declared, "is that at a negotiating table, if you're really looking...
...coalition government representing a broad segment of South Vietnamese society but excluding members of the present government of President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu, in turn, so far refuses to countenance any coalition with the Front or the Viet Cong, and has jailed prominent South Vietnamese, including former Presidential Candidate Truong Dinh Dzu two weeks ago, for even daring to suggest the notion...