SOUTH VIETNAM: PRESIDENT THIEU ANNOUNCES FULL MOBILISATION DURING CEREMONY MARKING END OF STUDENTS' COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

Record ID: 441698

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: PRESIDENT THIEU ANNOUNCES FULL MOBILISATION DURING CEREMONY MARKING END OF STUDENTS' COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.
  • Date: 3rd April 1968
  • Summary: STUDENTS AT CEREMONY; PRESIDENT THIEU PRESIDING OVER CEREMONY; STUDENTS SALUTING; THIEU SPEAKS. Initials AA/V/CR/SC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th April 1968 13:00
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  • Location: SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVA60SAQZ0CGF1I2WFBQ8YGMA0X4
  • Story Text: SOUTH VIETNAM WILL GO UNDER FULL MOBILISATION SO THAT VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS RATHER THAN AMERICANS WILL BE AVAILABLE TO MEET NEW TROOP DEMANDS.

    THIS WAS ANNOUNCED BY PRESIDENT NGUYEN VAN THIEU IN SAIGON ON SUNDAY WHILE ADDRESSING 10,000 STUDENTS AT THE END OF THEIR THREE-WEEK COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING.

    THE MOBILISATION, SAID THE PRESIDENT, WILL COME IN THE AUTUMN, AND ADDED "THIS YEAR WILL BE A DECISIVE ONE FOR BOTH THE UNITED STATES AND OUR ADVERSARY".

    PRESIDENT THIEU'S SPEECH CAME ONLY HOURS AFTER PRESIDENT JOHNSON SAID THAT ANY FURTHER INCREASES IN THE U.S. COMMITMENT IN VIETNAM WILL BE ONLY MODERATE.

    IN SAIGON YESTERDAY (TUESDAY), PRESIDENT THIEU SAID THAT AMERICAN TROOPS COULD START WITHDRAWING FROM VIETNAM BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

    HE SAID HE WOULD NEVER ASK THE AMERICANS TO LEAVE, BUT IF THE U.S. ASKED TO START CUTTING DOWN THEIR TROOPS, VIETNAMESE FORCES COULD BE BUILT UP SUFFICIENTLY FAST TO ENABLE THIS WITHDRAWAL TO START.
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