Word: dienbienphu
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...come--the bombing had just started. It started five days later. This was the one time in the two-year period when it made sense to have me totally out of action for one week. The mining started on a Sunday, May 7, the anniversary of the fall of Dienbienphu, when the headlines in the New York Times--look 'em up--were "Nobody knows what he will do." I was at a press conference in Chicago; I said, "I am sorry to say that I do know what he is going to do. The NSC at this moment is meeting...
...YEAR AFTER the signing of a Vietnam cease-fire and 20 since Dienbienphu led to Americans' replacing Frenchmen as defenders of free enterprise in Vietnam, it makes sense to reassess the rhetoric people used...
...peasants. It is they who started to resist the French in the 1930's, joined the Viet Minh in the early 1940's and fought on to partial victory in 1954. Peasants dragged heavy artillery over jungle trails to the mountains overlooking the French garrision in the valley of Dienbienphu...
...Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx described the paralysis of a middle-class anxious to maintain the political democracy it believed in, but increasingly aware that political democracy might mean an end to capitalism, and therefore to its own power. Vietnamese liberals after Dienbienphu found themselves in a similar predicament. Free elections with universal suffrage would bring socialists to power. Establishing the democracy would mean class suicide. Freedom of assembly might turn into revolution at any moment. Freedom of speech meant agitation against the shaky government. Freedom of religion meant that the Buddhist peasants could hope to overthrow...
Died. Hsieh Fuchih, 63, former secret police chief of China; in Peking. Hsieh commanded 150,000 troops in the Korean War, and later aided Ho Chi Minh's forces at Dienbienphu. As Minister of Public Security in the mid-'60s he played an ambiguous role in the Cultural Revolution. He clashed with army commanders opposed to Red Guard excesses, then he violently quelled the Red Guard activists in Peking. Hsieh thus made enemies on both sides but survived them to remain a Maoist in good standing...