Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Viet Minh did not bother to launch their offensive against the Red River Delta last week. At Geneva and across the shrouded land of Viet Nam, they were winning the war by default...
...Namdinh, third biggest city in the Delta, already has the look of a city awaiting death and whatever life may come after it," reported TIME'S Senior Editor John Osborne. "French army trucks, private furniture vans and ancient buses loaded to their creaky axles crowd the hot streets and the roads leading out to Hanoi. At the city airstrip, the families of policemen and politicians, nuns in white cotton habit, priests and Catholic seminarians in black march sedately into the black-bellied Dakotas that fly in and out all day, ferrying a favored few thousands to the uncertain havens...
...national salvation and to bring about a revolution in all fields." But Diem's own associates were fast losing their confidence. "We cannot hope to defeat the Viet Minh," said one. "The most we can do is try to diminish their influence." French General Cogny, commander of the Delta, wanted to bring in heavy reinforcements and fight it out. U.S. Major General John W. O'Daniel, head of the U.S. military mission, still believed the war could be won, especially if his plan for U.S.-style training of the Vietnamese army could get under way. But French...
Amphibious Oil. The oilmen have approached the sea by easy stages, meeting it first in the Mississippi delta, where land and sea are interlaced. Winding bayous snake through the land, connecting brackish lakes only a few feet deep. What looks like land is often sea with tall grass growing up through...
Next day, the French Assembly installed a Premier pledged to get peace at Geneva within 30 days. Mendès-France's reported terms-abandonment of Northern Viet Nam and the Red River Delta, in return for a neutralized Laos and Cambodia-exactly accorded with the bargain Britain had long privately advocated. Eden put off his departure to confer through Saturday afternoon with Molotov, Chou and France's Jean Chauvel, hammering out an agreement that representatives of "the two sides" would meet immediately in Geneva or "on the spot" to discuss "the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces...