Word: viets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOUTH VIET NAM'S President Nguyen Van Thieu has never been a demonstrative sort, but last week he was clearly elated by President Nixon's address about the war. "It is the greatest and most brilliant speech I have ever known a United States President to make," said Thieu. His exuberance was understandable. Saigon has always bridled at the Viet Nam alternatives discussed in the U.S., such as a cease-fire or massive withdrawals by a specified date-and Nixon called for none of these. Though he refrained from mentioning or endorsing the Saigon regime, his promise that...
Hopeful Assumptions. Nixon said that prospects for turning the burden of ground combat over to the South Vietnamese looked "more optimistic now" than they did even last summer when Washington was talking in terms of a pullout by the end of 1972. After Nixon's speech, South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky offered an off-the-cuff guess that all U.S. ground-combat troops could be withdrawn by the end of 1970 and the remaining support units, such as artillery batteries and helicopter crews...
...experts warned that infiltration, which has declined in the past, can suddenly increase. At present, there are unsettling reconnaissance reports that Communist engineers are repairing and widening the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and there are indications that Hanoi is preparing to put more troops in the pipeline to South Viet...
Inside the capital, two Viet Cong agents at a camp for defectors tried to toss a grenade at the South Vietnamese Cabinet Minister who heads the "open arms" program for defectors, but a genuine defector managed to get the grenade away from the two before it could explode. Captured enemy documents indicate that the Communists at present are in the process of preparing to launch the final phase of their war plan. That phase is not so much an "offensive"-the weakened Communist forces no longer use the word-as a series of "high points" or sporadic attacks designed...
Coup Rumors. The contest for South Viet Nam could also be lost on the political front. Last week Saigon was once again alive with talk of a coup. The speculation started when South Vietnamese Senator Tran Van Don invited some 300 Vietnamese to his home in Saigon's Cholon section to toast the anniversary of the 1963 overthrow of the Diem regime. Among the guests was General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, a popular leader of the 1963 plot and an old Thieu rival, who is regarded as the possible leader of a coalition government. Asked about his plans...