Word: indoing
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...that the U.S. particularly wants to be in Laos, any more than it wants to be in the rest of what used to be Indo-China. But the vacuum left by the French collapse a decade ago forced the U.S. to assume responsibility for the area. Laos is less important strategically than its Vietnamese neighbor; the country could fall to the Communists without necessarily making the situation in South Viet Nam much worse, while the fall of South Viet Nam inevitably would also mean the fall of Laos. But if the U.S. could deny the implausible little kingdom...
...France's policies. De Gaulle would hardly budge from his belief that eventual neutralization of Southeast Asia, with guarantees from Red China, was "the only solution compatible with the peaceful life and progress of the area." France's view is understandably colored by memories of its own defeat in Indo-China. The U.S. does not exclude the possibility that South Viet Nam may be neutralized, but Washington insists that the country must first be made sufficiently strong to protect itself against a Communist takeover. Meanwhile, if France and the U.S. reach no sudden entente, there are hopes at least...
...lies in Charles de Gaulle's proposal for neutralization. Though never spelled out by De Gaulle, this would mean a negotiated peace under auspices of the U.N. or of a renewed Geneva conference, to strengthen by international guarantees the vows made-and since broken-in the original 1954 Indo-China settlement. This possibility is backed by Senators Mike Mansfield, George McGovern and others, who see defeat and humiliation for the U.S. as the only fruits of continued fighting in South Viet...
...reigning voice of the "Defenders of French Song," a tight little school of contemporary troubadour-poets. He despises literary snobbery, and the lyrics of his 200 songs pulse with the rough and jeering argot of Parisian streets. Legionnaires listened to his records in the crumbling days of French Indo-China. They can still be heard in Hanoi, as well as in New York, Dakar or any place where hypochondriacs have no intention of curing themselves of that bittersweet nostalgia known as the Maladie de Paris. But his verses are also published in the prestigious Poetes d'Aujourd...
FROM Pyongyang to the Yangtze, Asia's Communists last week celebrated the tenth anniversary of Dienbienphu, the savage battle that cost France her century-old Indo-Chinese empire. In Hanoi, loudspeakers blared a specially composed song, Liberation of Dienbienphu, and thousands of North Vietnamese massed to commemorate the feat of arms that General Vo Nguyen Giap, the Red victor of Dienbienphu, called "one of the greatest victories in the history of the armed struggle of oppressed peoples...