Word: dienbienphu
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Privileged Horses. The herons and mosquitoes breed side by side. Also, the herons migrate through much of southeast Asia, which explains why Japanese B is rife in such places as Dienbienphu and Kuala Lumpur. In the Pusan perimeter, the bugs got out of hand when Army medics had to lay down their DDT guns and pick up Mis. Since this realization, U.S. forces have had relatively little trouble (only 30 cases, two deaths on Okinawa this year). They spray mosquito lairs, sleep under nets; in a tough combat situation they would slaughter all the nesting birds they could find...
...Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives and homemade bombs struck down 200 Frenchmen and wounded 500 more. Encouraged by French reverses in Indo-China, the Black Hand openly boasted: "Casablanca will become another Dienbienphu...
...year ago, for the grim Geneva Conference in the week of Dienbienphu, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov had demanded and got a closed, bulletproof limousine. Last week, the Russians climbed into open cars and toured Geneva like politicians running for the town council. Premier Nikolai Bulganin beamed and waved his grey fedora; Party Boss Khrushchev mugged, grinned and snapped pictures like a zealous tourist...
...hundred and fifty Swiss were killed in Dienbienphu. A much more suitable alternative, Minister Chaudet advised his landlocked countrymen, is the sea. "The job of a sailor is tough but honorable...
...French Presence. What are the French up to? Since they lost the Indo-China war at Dienbienphu and Geneva, the French have been maneuvering desperately to save what they call "the French presence" in both halves of divided Viet Nam, which once gave them 10% of their foreign trade. In Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), a mission headed by Jean Sainteny has been haggling for trade concessions. Sainteny would also like to open new trade routes into Red China through the North Viet Nam port of Haiphong (which the French, under Geneva's terms, must evacuate next...