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...city center, at whose tables generations of Foreign Legionnaires had drunk and sung and bragged. A few French technicians stayed behind to show the Reds how to run the utilities, and a score or so of European priests and sisters remained. The lycée, which counts Vo Nguyen Giap, the wily Viet Minh army chief, as one of its honor grads, also decided to keep school. For the U.S., Consul Thomas J. Corcoran stayed on with a staff...
...businesslike Reds moved right into Hanoi's government offices as if they always had occupied them. Slight, youthful-looking General Giap prepared to take over at the Citadelle, where French generals had given orders since the days of Gambetta and MacMahon and where, nine years ago, they had gallantly held out against the Japanese...
...reporters, De Castries said that he had never run up a white flag, even when Dienbienphu was overrun. After his capture, he had no water during the first four days and was kept in isolation, guarded by four Viet Minh soldiers. Eventually he was taken before General Vo Nguyen Giap, the crafty Viet Minh commander, but would not reveal what they talked about...
...Giap has also infiltrated the Delta with the equivalent of three more divisions...
...Giap has always fought by the classic Mao Tse-tung doctrine of Asian war: "Never fight unless victory is certain"; he must also synchronize with Peking and Geneva. But Giap has perhaps three clear weeks, and apprehensive French eyes are already turning towards a rubble-dust town called Phuly, 40 miles south of Hanoi, and the most vulnerable spot in the Delta. Giap has already eroded eleven of Phuly's twelve outlying defense posts; he has the twelfth under harassment; and from now on, his possibilities are a succession of dangerous "ifs." If Giap attacks Phuly, if he gets...