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...Soldiers. Adding to the internal threat in the northeast is a community of some 40,000 to 60,000 Vietnamese who are refugees from the French Indo-China war and almost totally loyal to Ho Chi Minh. With their own cadres, schools and tight internal organizations, and their
Warm Invitation. Mrs. Gandhi left Washington with several specific aid promises from the U.S. To expand education in India, the President announced plans for an Indo-American Foundation, to be financed by $300 million in rupees held by the U.S. in Indian Food for Peace payments. To alleviate India's food shortage, he proposed shipping an additional $500 million worth of U.S. surplus commodities to India by year's end ($500 million worth is already scheduled) and appealed to other nations to match the U.S. contribution...
During last summer's Indo-Pakistani border war, Ayub lost some 500 armored vehicles and nearly one-third of his air force. Since the U.S. and Britain -his principal suppliers of weaponry -had refused to replenish Ayub's stores, he turned to Red China, whose leaders were happy to turn a political profit. No sooner had the tank-and-jet performance completed last week's "Pakistan Day" celebrations than the Chinese collected the first installment of Ayub's debt. Into Rawalpindi flew Red Chinese President Liu Shao-chi and Foreign Minister Chen Yi for five days...
...Communist capital, he earned an infantry commission from an officers' training school. The French plucked the cocky young lieutenant off his feet and sent him to Marrakech for flight training. He won his wings on Sept. 15, 1954-just four months after the French defeat in Indo-China. Ky came back to South Viet Nam with a French wife and the command of a transport squadron. By the time he was 25, the hard-boiled "hot rock" pilot was in charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there, Ky jumped to his first...
...deLattre Line was an attempt to secure an area the French held in the Indo-Chinese War. It failed. When the French were kicked out of Vietnam in 1954, they were pursuing the very enclave policy now being urged on the Americans. As long as a guerilla force has complete freedom of movement, it can mass its forces and choose its battles so that it surprises even an "enclave" with superior numbers. The "search and destroy" tactic is not an alternative to "securing territory which is already held," as the editorial states. It is a necessary corollary...