Word: indo-china
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...radical students, none of whom was present, seems to us not only inappropriate but an insult to the majority of the graduating class of Harvard who are opposed as he to the methods of the revolutionary left but even more opposed to the senseless violence of the war in Indo-China, a subject he mentioned...
...early 1950s, American funds flooded into Indo-China, but mostly to support the French in their ill-fated effort to defeat the Viet Minh, Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary army. Laos remained on the periphery until the Geneva cease-fire was signed in 1954. From that point, the U.S. presence in Laos grew, spurred by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' determination to prevent Southeast Asia from falling under Communist domination...
...mostly old men and women and small children in ragged clothes. There were few young adults; most of them are in the hills with the Pathet Lao. The refugees' eyes bore the blank, stoic look I have seen so often in the faces of peasants dispossessed by the Indo-China War, and relics of that war were everywhere. Many refugees carried standard North Vietnamese army canteens...
Died. General Georges Catroux, 92, French officer whose career mirrored his nation's colonial fortunes; of influenza; in Paris. Catroux led troops during the conquests in North Africa, the Middle East and Indo-China, but later joined De Gaulle in dissolving the empire. He personally issued the proclamation freeing Syria in September 1941 and Lebanon two months later, in 1955 negotiated the return of the Sultan of Morocco to his throne and later vigorously supported Algerian independence. For all of this he earned De Gaulle's praise as a soldier "possessing the sense of the greatness of France...
Politesse and Patience. An old Indo-China hand who once served in Vientiane and Hanoi during the French days, Rives concedes that "we're moving very slowly here." With good reason. Prince Sihanouk broke relations with Washington in 1965, partly because he considered the U.S. presence too big for comfort. It had grown to more than 200 people and an aid budget of $30 million a year. Nowadays, Sihanouk's chief fear is that a Communist victory in Viet Nam might encourage the 40,000 uninvited North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops who now use Cambodia...