Word: indo-china
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Poker & Capital. Co was one of the 13 generals whose junta replaced the Diem regime in November 1963, and one of the ten who put Ky in power in June 1965. A tough field commander who led one of France's prized groupements mobiles during the Indo-China war, Co apparently found the temptations of power too appealing. With a base pay of $177 a month, he acquired three villas in Saigon and property worth an estimated $600,000 near Tan Son Nhut Airport. Go's wealth, it was said, came from payoffs by officers who wanted safe...
Lieut. Colonel Eyadéma, a burly ex-sergeant in the French colonial army who fought in Indo-China and Algeria, blandly admits that it was he who fired the rifle that killed Olympic. The 250-man army then gave power to Grunitzky, a portly, phlegmatic mulatto (his father was German) who spent most of his time taking health cures in France. Last November he had to hurry back from France to head off an abortive coup by followers of Olympic, who accused him of indecision and too close a tie with Togo's former colonial masters in France...
...failed to follow that route often found themselves siding with a new force in Philippine politics: the Huks. Originally known as the Hukbong bayan laban sa Hapon (People's Army Against Japan), the Huks turned quickly to the Communist antidemocratic guerrilla warfare that their brothers in China and Indo-China were fostering. By the late 1940s, the Huk menace was massive: it claimed 14,000 fighting men under arms, and controlled by terror and taxation some 4,000,000 Filipino peasants, mainly in central Luzon. President Roxas, who died in office of a heart attack, was succeeded by Elpidio Quirino...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
France "can do so all the better since it withdrew its administration and military forces from Indo-China twelve years ago," he intoned, "thus leaving North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos complete self-determination." Thus he conveniently ignored the fact that France's withdrawal was the result of military defeat, and went on to charge that "the United States felt obliged to engage progressively its political authority and its arms wherever France withdrew...