Word: leclerc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the French returned, Ho ordered Giap as Commander in Chief of the North Viet Nam army to meet General Jacques LeClerc at the airport. Giap flew into a towering rage, ranting that he would never shake hands with any Frenchman. Uncle Ho listened for a while and then said: "You have two hours before his plane arrives, so why don't you go into the corner and cry your eyes out. But be at the airport." Giap went. But such emotional outbursts led Ho to leave Giap at home when he went off to Fontainebleau to negotiate with...
...protests against the Vietnamese war. After all, Lacouture is uniquely qualified by both historical precedent and personal experience to criticize the U.S. position there. He's been to Vietnam seven times, written three books on the subject, knows Ho Chi Minh, and was press attache in 1946 to General Leclerc in Saigon. Since then, he has become a Grand Reporter for Le Monde--a sort of French James Reston. And he has been Le Monde's man-on-the-spot at numerous major crises: the abduction of Ben Bella; the assassination of Diem; the 1960 conference of heads of state...
...Charles de Gaulle speaking-lean, his face scarcely lined-at the Hotel de Ville. That moment of triumph, 20 years ago, was surrounded by a good deal of squabbling. General Jacques Leclerc's French 2nd Armored Division, which had received reluctant approval from the Allied high command to advance on Paris, had got bogged down but reached the city ahead of the Americans anyway, making the Liberation, at least in appearance, a feat of French arms. Right behind the troops came De Gaulle, whose chief concern was to prevent a takeover by the Communists, who had widely infiltrated...
...Algeria just as Rainier began conductor hunting. Born in northern France, Frémaux had studied piano briefly at Valenciennes Conservatory before World War II sent him into the Maquis. He went to St.-Cyr military academy at war's end, served in Indo-China under General LeClerc. The experience, he thinks, was not altogether foreign to a musical career: "I learned a lot from my years in Indo-China; it was my discovery of the world; I saw people and wars." He was tempted to become a career Legion officer, but finally decided to return to music, resigned...
Calvados apple brandy, and stopped before the comfortable Hôtel Moderne on the Boulevard du Général-Leclerc. Kravchenko. a moderately well-known author of Russian children's books, ate dinner with his companions in the hotel restaurant and then, like the others, went soberly up to his room...