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...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...Spartans chose to stand and fight at Thermopylae; the Red Sox and pinstripes slug it out regularly at Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium, the French met their match at Dien Bien Phu, and the Texans theirs at the Alamo. In Cambridge, two rivals--Harvard and the city's tenant movement--will fight to the finish this fall in an Alamo-sized brick building, 7 Sumner...
...been revised and rehabilitated, sometimes rather extravagantly. In the Viet Nam era, liberals like I.F. Stone and Murray Kempton found brilliance in Eisenhower previously undetected by intellectuals; he had resisted the best efforts of his advisers to get him to help the French in Indochina in the weeks before Dien Bien Phu. Despite CIA adventuring around the world, despite the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Iran, despite that sunbathing Marine exercise on the Lebanese beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept the nation out of war. In Nixon Agonistes...
...which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...
...does in its first real combat test since the Korean War nearly 30 years ago could provide clues to its capability against Soviet armies on China's northern border. Arrayed against the PLA was a formidable military instrument forged by Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, the conqueror of Dien Bien Phu, whose forces had defeated French and U.S. armies in more than three decades of fighting. The strengths and weaknesses of both forces, as evaluated by the analysts last week, appeared to be in delicate balance...