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Free Advice. On the witness stand in Paris' Palais de Justice, the paratroop colonels made no apologies. Shaven-skulled Colonel Auguste Broizat, a veteran of Indo-China, said firmly that he not only "refused to fire on the crowd," but had ordered that his men stay where they were and "avoid all provocations." After the police massacre, Broizat told Algerian Commander in Chief General Maurice Challe bitterly: "Here is the result of our government's policy, and this is just the beginning." According to Broizat, Challe replied, "Don't tell me. I feel even more strongly about...
...Just how wan was demonstrated last week in Viet Nam, where a parallel control commission, set up at the end of the Indo-China war, still operates. The U.S. presented evidence of a huge arms buildup in North Viet Nam, but the Polish member voted against an on-the-spot inspection, and the Indian chairman agreed...
...Stars. Heintges directs a U.S. outfit that amounts to a military advisory group in Laos. But it must operate in mufti. Reason: the 1954 Geneva agreement that ended the war in Indo-China...
...cease-fire and a neutralist Laos with a coalition government that would include the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. They even sent a note to Nikita Khrushchev to propose revival of the international control commission (India, Poland, Canada) that was set up to patrol Laos at the end of the Indo-China war. Khrushchev piously declared he was for it, and added that even better, the Geneva conference (which originally partitioned French Indo-China after Dienbienphu) should be reconvened to consider the whole problem...
...full-dress excavation last year produced a wealth of pottery objects with an oriental look. There were models of houses with peaked gables that looked as if they might have come from Japan or Indo-China. Headrests looked equally Asian, and so did a drawing on a pottery spindle weight that showed a stylized porter carrying burdens on the ends of a pole, as many Asians do. Many sitting figurines had a vague resemblance to statues of Buddha. Carbon 14 tests showed that the objects were made about...