Word: indo-china
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...major proportions. In this big handsome book, Author-Photographer Carl Mydans and his wife Shelley, both of whom have distinguished themselves as TIME-LIFE combat correspondents, examine a China torn by civil war, the bloody and futile efforts of the French to hang on to a lost empire in Indo-China, the insurrection in Greece, the partition riots in India. In a litany of violence, they tick off wars and disorders in Palestine, Malaya, the big conflict in Korea, Quemoy-Matsu, Algeria, Hungary, Suez, South Arabia, Cyprus, Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic, the Congo, Angola, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos...
Wandering Wraith. Ho was born in French Indo-China, not far from the Gulf of Tonkin, 78 years ago. His father was a celebrated scholar and minor official-following the mandarin tradition-in the imperial puppet government. He was fired because the French suspected him of "patriotic" sympathies. Embittered, he used to declare that "being a mandarin is the ultimate form of slavery." He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon...
Lacouture portrays Ho in the years after his release as a tough moderate. World War IFs end had brought 200,000 Nationalist Chinese troops into Indo-China as an occupation force. Ho, "resisting the temptation to play the romantic revolutionary," in Lacouture's words, cagily started negotiating with the French to lever the Chinese...
Nixon's discussion of Viet Nam reflected no basic change in his ideas but a shift of emphasis. As early as 1954, the then Vice President believed that U.S. troops should be sent to save the French from defeat in Indo-China. After the Johnson Administration began its major U.S. buildup eleven years later, Nixon supported the commitment in principle, but criticized its implementation, finding fault with the gradualism of the war effort...
...offensive. Indeed, there are some chilling parallels between Giap's winter-spring offensive in 1954 and the current Red strategy. While the Communists built up their strength at Dienbienphu to 40,000 men-the estimated force now around Khe Sanh-they simultaneously launched assaults against the French throughout Indo-China. The Tet offensive was a similar widespread assault by the Communists which may have been aimed, at least in part, at pinning down U.S. troops in cities far from Khe Sanh...