Word: indo-china
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...first Pulitzer for a drawing of a mountain of paper looming over two tiny tablets titled "The Laws of Moses and the Laws of Today"; his second came in 1955, when he showed Uncle Sam marching into a swamp in what was then French Indo-China with the caption, "How Would Another Mistake Help...
...with them to their luxurious beach home at St.-Tropez. A skilled wrestler, he was equally quick with his fists; these talents were sometimes useful to Alain, who had picked up a wide underworld acquaintance of pals during his earlier days as a young street brawler, a rifleman in Indo-China and a merchant sailor. For Stevan, it was an amusing existence, but it came to an abrupt end last fall. In early October, a ragpicker found his sackcloth-swathed corpse in a garbage dump at Elancourt, near Versailles...
There was something dashing about the passionately militant young Malraux, for instance. At 22, in 1923, this Malraux was arrested for trying to smuggle Khmer statuary out of Cambodia. Already an anticolonialist, he helped form those revolutionary forces that would eventually drive his countrymen out of Indo-China and make Mao Tse-tung master of China. The Malraux of the middle period had much to recommend him too. As an almost mythical liberal of the 1930s and a famous novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), he helped organize and then commanded the brave, ramshackle Republican air force...
...been soldiering for most of his life. In the final days of World War II, he fought as a Hitler Youth in Germany's last-ditch defense against the advancing U.S. Army. After the German surrender, he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. He spent seven years in Indo-China, an enfant terrible who was at least twice busted from sergeant to private. At Dienbienphu, he was wounded and lost the use of a lung. After five years of service in Algeria, a spell with the S.A.O. and a suspended sentence, he was living in Paris last year when...
...backbone of Ojukwu's military resistance is a small group of white mercenaries commanded by Colonel Rolf Steiner, a 38-year-old former Foreign Legion sergeant who fought in Indo-China and Algeria. His ability to make the most of Biafra's minimal military resources has moved him steadily upward in rank and power since he signed on last December. When news of the federal onslaught reached Ojukwu, he hurried to Steiner's headquarters in an abandoned nunnery in Owerri...