Word: dienbienphu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Ho Chi Minh is getting big help from both Russia and Red China, and his favorite tactic is to play one ally against the other. For a thousand years, China dominated Viet Nam. and it was from China that Ho Chi Minh got the supplies to win at Dienbienphu. More recently, Peking sent him 8,000 technicians, is building him a steel mill and training Muong tribesmen...
...time the French surrendered at Dienbienphu and the Geneva Conference declared Laos a neutral state, the "Red Prince" had established Pathet Lao control firmly in the two mountainous provinces of Samneua and Phongsaly...
...bureau chief for Agence France-Presse, France's seasoned Newsman (Korea, Dienbienphu) Bernard Ullmann, 38, was one of two Western reporters permitted to reside in Peking and to travel about the country. Last week, after 18 months in Red China, Ullmann provided a rare non-Communist view of life in Red China in a copyrighted article for A.F.P. and the New York Times Magazine...
...they rounded up enough Communist-supplied arms to put on an impressive show in Vientiane for U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Brown. Some shells bore Chinese markings. But, ironically, most of the display could be identified as U.S.-made munitions, allegedly captured by the Viet Minh from the French at Dienbienphu...
Helluva Thing. If the U.S. got into a war under such conditions, asked one Southeast Asian official with bitter memories of Dienbienphu, "would the marines be prepared to stay in the jungles five, six or ten years?" Admitting that "this is a helluva thing for a military man to say," one of the U.S.'s top soldiers declared himself in favor of "political adjustment" rather than a showdown...