Word: indo-china
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...depend in large measure on the outcome of the expected Khe Sanh battle. Some critics feel that defending the remote outpost is a foolish gamble that heavily favors the Communists. "Why fight at Khe Sanh at all?" asks French General André Beaufre, who served for five years in Indo-China. "Logistically, the fight favors the North Vietnamese. You have allowed them once again to choose the time and place of battle...
They attacked 28 of South Viet Nam's 44 provincial capitals and occupied some, destroyed or damaged beyond repair more than 100 allied planes and helicopters. South Viet Nam's capital, which even in the worst days of the Indo-China war had never been hit so hard, was turned into a city besieged and sundered by house-to-house fighting. In Hué, the ancient imperial city of Viet Nam and the architectural and spiritual repository of Vietnamese history, the Communists seized large parts of the city?and only grudgingly yielded them block by block under heavy allied counterattacks...
...Viet Nam in 1951 (then Indo-China):We must learn how to suffer and not let go of Asia. We must stay in Korea and stay in Indo-China. It is possible to leave but these are solutions of defeat. For my part, I do not accept them...
...proposals for intensifying the war, such as an invasion of North Viet Nam, he was 100% convinced of Washington's genuine desire for peace. In Washington, Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma declared during a White House luncheon that he, for one, was "grateful that you came to Indo-China to help us survive," for "if tomorrow South Viet Nam became Communist, all that would be left for us to do would be simply to pack up and go." Added the neutralist leader: "We are grateful that you came, as you came to France in 1917-18, as you came...
Cork in the Bottle. By no coincidence, it was fatigue in France in the wake of Dienbienphu that finally propelled French arms out of Indo-China 13 years ago. Would Con Thien induce the same mood in the American public? "The enemy is fighting for American public opinion," says U.S. Commander General William C. Westmoreland, "and he is willing to pay a dear price to influence it. This is the way he expects to win the war-it is the only conceivable way he could...