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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...
Thieu's repressive measures could not have come at a worse time. The U.S. Congress, in the midst of debating an Administration request for an extra $300 million in military aid for Saigon, was sure to react unfavorably to Thieu's latest attack on the South Vietnamese press; even the anti-Thieu papers are decidedly nonCommunist. Beyond that, a number of longtime supporters of South Viet Nam's President, including Senator Henry Jackson, seem to have given up on Thieu. "The Thieu failure is a failure of a regime to bring together all the factions to fight...
...Republican in the Senate from 1936 until 1942, when he resigned to enlist in the Army. He was reelected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1945, and was U.S. representative to the U.N. and on the Security Council from 1953 to 1960. He served as U.S. ambassador to Saigon from 1963 to 1964 and again from...
Marr said that gains by Saigon forces and continued U.S. support have convinced leaders of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam (PRG) and North Vietnam that the United States is not going to follow the Paris agreement and end military and political involvement in South Vietnam without pressure...
...impression," Marr said, "is that military action against Saigon will increase in 1975," but he added that both the PRG and North Vietnam only want to defeat the Saigon forces to "demoralize them so they disband and return home...