Word: dienbienphu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cork in the Bottle. By no coincidence, it was fatigue in France in the wake of Dienbienphu that finally propelled French arms out of Indo-China 13 years ago. Would Con Thien induce the same mood in the American public? "The enemy is fighting for American public opinion," says U.S. Commander General William C. Westmoreland, "and he is willing to pay a dear price to influence it. This is the way he expects to win the war-it is the only conceivable way he could...
What the book shows most clearly and painfully is the decline of Bidault, betrayed by the courage of his own futile convictions. And at least one of his statements is certain to set swivel chairs spinning in Washington. According to Bidault, during the siege of Dienbienphu in 1954, France asked the U.S. for military aid against Ho Chi Minh's army, then poised on the brink of victory. In reply, says Bidault, John Foster Dulles asked him "if we would like the U.S. to give us two atomic bombs." It is curious that Bidault alone of the many participants...
...woman since Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, the Angel of Dienbienphu, has won such tributes for courage. Author Truman Capote hailed her for "one thing: g-u-t-s," a Chicago newspaper remarked on her "spunk," and Co-Actor John Erickson said she "was like a bull in the ring." Inspiration for all the euphemism was Lee Bouvier, otherwise Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy, making her professional acting debut at Chicago's Ivanhoe Theater in a four-week run of The Philadelphia Story. Alackaday. Neither g-u-t-s nor the services of Seamster...
...valley near Khe Sanh in the extreme northwest tip of South Viet Nam, only eight miles from the Laotian border and twelve miles south of the DMZ, North Vietnamese commanders thought that they had found a tactical situation that somewhat resembled Dienbienphu, where they inflicted the decisive defeat on the French in 1954. Before the Com munists discovered that they, and not the U.S. Marines, were to share the fate of the French, several fierce battles were fought up and down hills so worthless that they had only numbers (representing elevation in meters above sea level), not names...
...seven working trips to Viet Nam, including a personal interview with Ho Chi Minh on the subject of the war. From his experiences he turned out not only Street Without Joy, a military classic, but his definitive Two Viet Nams and an account of the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place (TIME, Feb. 10). Two months ago, Fall made a return trip to South Viet Nam on a Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study of the psychology and tactics of the Viet Cong. Just two weeks ago, his American wife and three daughters flew...