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...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...cannot-and, in fact, does not want to-exert control over the political and social life of Asian nations. Despite the fact that both India and Pakistan largely depend on American aid for their viability, for example, Washington failed in its efforts to end last year's Indo-Pakistani war. But in the national life-or-death issue of survival in the face of Communist subversion in Asia, only the U.S. is powerful enough to check the Chinese export and exploitation of revolutions...
France "can do so all the better since it withdrew its administration and military forces from Indo-China twelve years ago," he intoned, "thus leaving North Viet Nam, South Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos complete self-determination." Thus he conveniently ignored the fact that France's withdrawal was the result of military defeat, and went on to charge that "the United States felt obliged to engage progressively its political authority and its arms wherever France withdrew...
...fortuitous incarceration. Behind bars he met Fellow Militant Minh Thai, who became his first wife. And the French police commissure for Vinh took a liking to the brilliant, angry young Giap, got him out of prison, and sent him off to one of the best French schools in Indo-China. He won his baccalaureate, and for four years taught history at a lyceum in Hanoi...
Worst of all, East Pakistan feels isolated and unprotected. After last September's Indo-Pakistan war, when East Pakistan found itself guarded by only one of Pakistan's nine army divisions, the East's leading political party, the Awami League, decided that it was time for action. Led by spellbinding Sheik Mujibur Rahman, 45, the Awami League drafted a six-point platform calling for East Pakistan's autonomy in all matters except foreign policy and defense, and Mujibur Rahman stumped the eastern part of the country gathering support. Then early last month, the government arrested Mujibur...