Word: indo-china
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...turbulence that has beset Indo-China in the past decade, none lived a more dangerous and colorful life than young Le Quang Vinh. He led a 20,000-man army all his own, recruited from the Hoa Hao, a sect which successfully combined religion and pillage. To dramatize his hatred of the French, he chopped off the end of a finger and called himself Ba Cut. In protest against the Geneva conference that split Viet Nam, he refused to cut his hair. Refusing also to recognize the sovereignty of the new nation of South Viet Nam, he terrorized the back...
...faith, or lack of faith, in his government's financial stability. Last week, after a climb of 30% in the past ten months, the price of the gold napoleon stood at 3,310 francs (about $9.45), the highest since the nervous last days of the war in Indo-China. In bullion terms, this made the napoleons worth $50 per oz., v. the U.S. price of $35 for world gold transactions...
...France in World War II, he later switched to the Allied side and became the able battlefield commander of the Free French forces in Italy. As the only living Marshal of France in 1952, he publicly blamed the United States for France's troubles in North Africa and Indo-China, and threatened to lead his nation personally out of the United Nations if Washington did not mend its ways. Back in Paris as NATO's Commander for Central Europe, Juin went on picking and fighting his enemies as he saw them. His opponents accused him of an overriding...
Married. Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, 31, onetime French flight nurse whose 58 days of selfless ministrations to beleaguered French troops in Indo-China (1954) earned her the title of "Angel of Dienbienphu"; and Captain Jean de Heaulme de Boutsocq, 33, St. Cyr-educated French parachutist and veteran of the Indo-China war; in Paris...
...flush out fleeing rebels. In the Kabylie area, some 210 villages once controlled by the rebels offered their submission. But in Paris, Socialist Finance Minister Paul Ramadier announced gloomily that the North African war was costing a billion francs ($2,850,000) a day-as much as the Indo-China war took at its peak, and without any U.S. help. To pay for it, he asked for another $285 million in revenue, to be raised by added taxes on army suppliers and a "civic" tax on visible signs of wealth-yachts, race horses, pianos, servants...