Word: bacninh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bacninh in the delta, some 20 miles northeast of Hanoi, TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin asked the Vietnamese governor if he would leave. "If I stay here with the Communists," the governor replied, pointing skyward, "I shall stay forever-up there." Then what would happen to Bacninh's anti-Communist villagers? "We are lost. The Viet Minh will exert pressure against the families and the village elders. It will be easy for the Communists. They are the victors. Who can resist the victors...
...Father Dominique, the Vietnamese curé of Bacninh Cathedral, was asked whether he too would head south. "I do not know, I do not know," the Father replied. "The Monseigneur must decide. We have 60,000 of the faithful here in Bacninh; 20,000 are already ruled by the Viet Minh, and for the rest it will be difficult to say. Many may leave-but where are they to go? Their land is here. Their homes are here. And so are the graves of their fathers...
Last week, sprawled astride the main Red invasion route on the Ninety-Nine Hills beyond Indo-China's Bacninh, the men of the Legion's 3rd Regiment-the most decorated unit in the French army -could afford to joke about death for a change, instead of courting it. There was a lull in battle. Lithuanian Sergeant Rekstis' mortar was silent. At the siege of Quong Lam a few weeks ago, Italians, Vietnamese, Portuguese and Yugoslavs had taken bets on whether a Viet Minh sniper would get Private Mommaire (Belgian, perhaps, or Swiss). Now Mommaire was idly admiring...
| 1 |