Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Giap last week concentrated eight regular Viet Minh divisions against the 300-mile edge of the Red River Delta. The French, anxiously awaiting reinforcements from Europe and North Africa, still believed they could hold. The position on the eve of the Delta battle: Communists: Giap has deployed two infantry divisions and one heavy-weapons division against the Delta's northern rim; he has two divisions ready in the south...
...Communist morale is high; French morale is shaken; Vietnamese morale is low. 3) The Communists already hold two-thirds of the Delta by day, almost all of it by night; the Delta population-except in the cities, with their anti-Communist refugees-is considered either pro-Communist or neutral...
Under normal conditions, Cogny could not long hold out without substantial reinforcement. The French are still counting on the weather. IndoChina's heavy rains will commence around July i. the Delta will flood, and both sides will have to stick to the roads or contend with a shoulder-high quagmire...
Cogny is regrouping behind an intricate series of rivers and canals, a loosely connected perimeter 100 miles shorter and more easily defensible than his present one; he intends to let the Vietnamese army prove itself by defending the outer zones. Cogny believes he can hold until the dry season and the fall-when he must have certain reinforcements...
...coalition, raised the bogey of "dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold on to their red plush seats, were too canny to be intimidated. They maneuvered their votes so that Laniel lost his vote of confidence (306 to 293) but not by the crucial 314 votes. The line-up against him included: 96 Communists, 104 of the 105 Socialists...