Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist Chinese would not dare tangle with the U.S., the West's chances of holding Indo-China seemed dubious (TIME, Nov. 27). Last week, after the shattering news from Korea, French authorities ordered the evacuation of all French women & children from gravely threatened Hanoi and the Red River delta. It would take something of a miracle to save Indo-China...
Meat for the Grinder. During his four years at Ohio Wesleyan University, Stanton continued to work at the Metropolitan, commuting 90 miles to Dayton every weekend. He also found time to be elected president of the senior honorary society and of his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta; to be put on probation for his part in the production of a college musical, some of whose lines offended the Methodist sensibilities of Ohio Wesleyan's faculty, and to split a $2,100 profit as editor of the college yearbook, which was illustrated by a boyhood chum who later became well-known...
...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
French Backbone. Last week I drove into the delta country. The spine of the new defense is a road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light...
...officer in charge of a small detachment of Vietnamese militia. Theoretically they are uniformed troops, but so far the uniform doesn't go much beyond a floppy bush hat and an armband. At another place I saw men building one of those Beau Geste forts which dot the delta. They were using salvaged bricks, mortared with mud. When the lookout tower is high enough they will face it with a thin layer of cement that will keep out water, but not much else. Said a French officer sadly: "It won't stop a bazooka." (Last week Communists using...