Word: indo-china
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...reigning voice of the "Defenders of French Song," a tight little school of contemporary troubadour-poets. He despises literary snobbery, and the lyrics of his 200 songs pulse with the rough and jeering argot of Parisian streets. Legionnaires listened to his records in the crumbling days of French Indo-China. They can still be heard in Hanoi, as well as in New York, Dakar or any place where hypochondriacs have no intention of curing themselves of that bittersweet nostalgia known as the Maladie de Paris. But his verses are also published in the prestigious Poetes d'Aujourd...
...Johnson's precedent-setting decision to give each freshman Senator a choice committee assignment, Mansfield immediately got a coveted spot on the Foreign Relations Committee. To this day, he would rather be considered an authority on foreign policy than a famed floor leader. He made three trips to Indo-China during the years when the French were letting it slip down the drain, concluded that the best solution there was partition, with South Viet Nam under a native, anti-Communist regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. Re-examining the situation last month, Mansfield urged that neutralization of both North...
...short-lived provisional government. Though Aubame had never been particularly popular, the arrest ballooned him to heroic proportions in the eyes of the aroused public. The riots exploded with new violence, and in the glare of burning shops and houses, Libreville's French population-largely composed of old Indo-China and Algerian colons-noticed that only the Americans were spared the angry mob's violence...
...proxy marriage. Napoleon used the Archduke Charles in Vienna as his stand-in at the altar with Marie Lou ise of Austria, while the Emperor stayed comfortably in Paris. And proxy marriages between soldiers and their girls back home became common in World War I. But during the Indo-China war a decade ago, when it sometimes took weeks for news of a soldier's death in the jungles to reach Paris, brides often discovered that they had been married by proxy to men already killed. Was such a woman legally a bereaved widow or sorrow-stricken mistress...
...guerrilla war, it is often impossible to tell who is winning. But in Viet Nam some things do seem certain: many more lives will be tragically lost, the war cannot possibly be won by 1965, and a rich jewel of a country carved out of ancient Indo-China sees no end in sight to a decade of Red-instigated fighting. About the best that can be expected is to maintain hope, apply muscle in the right places, make long-range commitments, and retain a dogged determination to keep fighting. Then maybe, just maybe, events and the tide of battle will...