Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When General Paul Ely recently assumed command in Indo-China, TIME Correspondent John Mecklin flew down from Hanoi to Saigon to cover his arrival. As the newsfronts keep shifting in this hot war, Mecklin moves with them. His beat has taken him into the Red River Delta, eastward to the South China Sea, westward into the remote villages of Laos. He has traveled by cyclo (a kind of bicycle wheelchair), by jeep, C-47-and on foot...
...Communist morale is high; French morale is shaken; Vietnamese morale is low. 3) The Communists already hold two-thirds of the Delta by day, almost all of it by night; the Delta population-except in the cities, with their anti-Communist refugees-is considered either pro-Communist or neutral...
Under normal conditions, Cogny could not long hold out without substantial reinforcement. The French are still counting on the weather. IndoChina's heavy rains will commence around July i. the Delta will flood, and both sides will have to stick to the roads or contend with a shoulder-high quagmire...
...Asian war: "Never fight unless victory is certain"; he must also synchronize with Peking and Geneva. But Giap has perhaps three clear weeks, and apprehensive French eyes are already turning towards a rubble-dust town called Phuly, 40 miles south of Hanoi, and the most vulnerable spot in the Delta. Giap has already eroded eleven of Phuly's twelve outlying defense posts; he has the twelfth under harassment; and from now on, his possibilities are a succession of dangerous "ifs." If Giap attacks Phuly, if he gets it, if Vietnamese and Western morale further crumbles, he might decide...
...bail after a 19-year-old M.S.C. coed accused him of rape. Otherwise, said Coach Hugh ("Duff") Daugherty, "our squad's behavior is as good as any in the country." ¶ Finally fed up with an accumulation of ugly incidents, Northwestern University shut down the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity house - the first fraternity ever banned in the university's history. Among the grievances against it: 40% of the brothers are on academic probation; eight have been suspended from school after unauthorized drinking parties; one, upon leaving such a party, got into an automobile accident in which his coed...