Word: indo-china
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...French Presence. What are the French up to? Since they lost the Indo-China war at Dienbienphu and Geneva, the French have been maneuvering desperately to save what they call "the French presence" in both halves of divided Viet Nam, which once gave them 10% of their foreign trade. In Communist North Viet Nam (pop. 12 million), a mission headed by Jean Sainteny has been haggling for trade concessions. Sainteny would also like to open new trade routes into Red China through the North Viet Nam port of Haiphong (which the French, under Geneva's terms, must evacuate next...
...bombardment lasted for more than an hour, an enemy shell every two minutes or so-American shells as it happened, given to the Binh Xuyen by the French during the Indo-China War, when the terrorists were supposed to be helping fight the Communists. Our Nationalist garrison leaned forward impassively on their weapons, expecting an infantry attack. 'We are completely encircled.' a report came through to us. Outside I could see a number of grotesquely related things: fire leaping from densely packed wooden shacks; a rat scurrying down a gutter to escape; refugees huddled or fleeing, silhouetted against...
...third-floor bedroom at Freedom Palace, Ngo Dinh Diem still talked wistfully of his aspirations: "My doctrine is to fight Communists. The experience of the Indo-China war showed that it was impossible to defeat the Communists without the people's support. How do you get it? By freeing the people from oppression by colonialism and the warlords of the sects . . . Yet the French military no longer wishes to leave Viet Nam and the U.S. grants financial aid to them.* The French want to get the best part of the cake and if they cannot get it, they...
...might be the head and face of a monk. He waves his visitor to a sofa, then takes a straight chair beside him. Barking his comments at the interpreter in his staccato, rough Mandarin, he fixes his dark eyes on his visitor, brightening with interest at a comment on Indo-China. turning grave as he states his unshakable determination to return to the mainland. Tea is served, and at exactly 6 o'clock an indescribable look comes over the President's face. The visitor instinctively rises and takes his leave. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, frail and formidable...
Milliet, in Aries in 1888 to rest up from a campaign in Indo-China, met Van Gogh in the town and posed for him now and then. In return, Van Gogh taught him a little about drawing and perspective. The artist was "an odd, good-natured man," Milliet recalled. "He was a bit crazy, like someone who has lived a long time in the strong sun of the desert . . . We would frequently take beautiful walks around Aries and out to the country, where we'd both feel the urge to sketch. Sometimes he'd take his canvas...