Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugles sound, and suicide squads blast through the wire. Two Communist divisions, some 10,000 strong, launch a "human sea" attack against both strongpoints. It is the first big attack since bloody "Phase One" of 17 days before. Objective: Bald Head Hill, 200 ft. high in the southeast strongpoint, commanding all other French positions...
Between 0200 and 0500 the Communists launch five "human sea" assaults against Gabrielle, but Gabrielle's 600 Algerians damn and dam them. "I am full of confidence in the victorious issue of this battle," De Castries reports to Hanoi, "because of the morale of the troops." At 0900, the Communists ask for a three-hour truce so both sides may pick up their wounded. The doctors work desperately with their amputation knives while chaplains intone prayers for the dead. At 1200, the truce ends. Some 1,000 French reinforcements from Hanoi parachute into Dienbienphu. But the weather...
...caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered on the beach to kneel and pray in the driving rain...
...general retreat from Christianity," Tory M.P. John Henderson and the Rev. Colin Kerr, prebendary of St. Paul's, helped arrange a meeting in 1952 at which Graham discussed evangelism with 800 British religious leaders. The result was an invitation from Britain's century-old Evangelical Alliance to launch a full-dress campaign...
Wasted Season. Washington began to be suspicious of this when the French forces failed to take advantage of new U.S. supplies and good weather to launch a major offensive against Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh's forces. Recently the suspicions were confirmed when the French sent an S O S asking for a U.S. commander in Indo-China, along with U.S. air power and ground troops. Immediately the Indo-China problem flew to the top of the agenda of the National Security Council. Last week the President appointed an NSC subcommittee, consisting of Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell...