Word: indochina
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...said he will lead discussion on the Eisenhower administration's decision not to intervene in French Indochina...
...battling for France abroad. Declared Louis's Minister of War: "So they wish to fight -then let them bleed and shovel sand in the conquest of North Africa." The legionnaires spearheaded France's colonial ambitions-conquering Algeria, subduing Morocco, then going on to incursions in Mexico and Indochina. In victory, the legion created a legend. In 1837, one battalion seized the supposedly impenetrable Algerian citadel of Constantine, perched atop a 1,000-ft. crag. Half a century later, another Foreign Legion battalion defeated 10,000 devil-worshiping Dahomey troops, including units of ferocious, bare-breasted women who shot...
...resolution, which urges the firm to end all trade with and disengage itself from the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea, Indochina and Eastern Europe, "was written in a very extreme anti-communist way and hardly anyone took it seriously," David H. Rubin '80, the replacement for the usual undergraduate ACSR member, said yesterday...
...cans, whatever was handy at it. I recall being filled with wonder at the man who could seemingly do anything and justify it to himself and then have the nerve to try to justify it to me. Who can forget the perspiring Nixon fumblingly pointing to the map of Indochina, identifying the Parrot's Beak for the Silent Majority to ponder and nod their heads and say yes, yes, Mr. President, cut the tumor out and save our boys? Who can forget the careful arrangement of the set--a flag in one corner and a bust of Lincoln, flanking...
...INDOCHINA...