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...Quito, he reached the Pacific seaport of Guayaquil. Seven top officers ordered troops to occupy Quito communications centers, then flew off after him. But the President's lead gave him time enough to strike a deal with the Guayaquil military command. By dumping Nebot, he persuaded the Guayaquil garrison to arrest the pursuing officers for "promoting disorder," when they stepped from their plane. (Four were soon released.) Velasco put the mayor of the loyal city of Guayaquil into the Defense Ministry in place of Varea Dónoso. At week's end the winner and still President...
...leader of the heroic "battered bastards of the bastion of Bastogne" he uttered his famed "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand, Lieut. General Anthony C. McAuliffe was a palace guest of King Baudouin and later heard himself eulogized in a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the U.S. garrison's besiegement...
...staggering 2,000,000 Indo-Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when the Communists struck characteristically on two fronts 5,000 miles apart: with Red China field guns and Russian rocket launchers, they crumbled the valiant French garrison at Dien-bienphu; with Chou En-lai and Molotov, they crumbled Western resolution at Geneva. One day last month, in one of the most extraordinary spectacles of Asia's long, unfolding panorama, French tanks withdrew from Hanoi before Viet Minh infantrymen wearing sneakers...
Last Truckloads. As Communist military police with gold stars on their helmets mounted guard in the city, the last truckloads of Foreign Legionnaires clattered across the mile-long Doumer Bridge over the flood-swollen Red River to join the rest of the French Viet Nam garrison 60 miles southeast at the port of Haiphong. There the French may stay till May, when under the Geneva agreements they must withdraw further south, below the Geneva dividing line at the 17th parallel, and leave all of north Viet Nam's rich rice bowl to the Reds...
...nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border now and then." Soviet propaganda was everywhere, blanketing the bookshops, nudging Hollywood aside in the movie theaters. In one frontier district, Redding reports, the local garrison was marched, by squads, to see the Soviet film The Fall of Berlin, in which not one scene suggests that Americans participated in the defeat of the Nazis...