Word: saigon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...England Coalition to Free Saigon's Political Prisoners, a coalition of nine local antiwar groups which called last, night's meeting, will hold another meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Catholic Student Center, 20 Arrow Street...
Truong called for "at least a two-to-three-month effort" to slash the Defense Department and agency for International Development budgets. He said the American government would then reallocate funds budgeted for the Saigon government to programs that were...
Next comes $2.6 million from the U.S. commercial import program. Under this, the Agency for International Development pays U.S. exporters in dollars, but the piasters paid by Vietnamese importers are turned over to Thieu's regime. Saigon's use of the money has helped the police force grow almost 70% since...
Thieu's land-reform program has already given much of the peasantry reason to back him. He has done little to reform Saigon's corrupt bureaucracy and has openly disregarded democratic processes, but he nonetheless might be a match for his Communist adversaries...
...Then Saigon's government was in a shambles, and new political leaders arrived and disappeared with revolving-door regularity. The Communists were defeating one South Vietnamese battalion and capturing one district headquarters per week. In this sense, therefore, the U.S. has perhaps succeeded in making South Viet Nam stable and strong enough to have a deciding voice in shaping its own future...