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Outmanned 3 to 1 and heavily outgunned, the 13,000-man French force trapped in the small North Vietnamese valley of Dienbienphu was slowly being decimated by the Viet Minh. The Communists, entrenched in the surrounding hills, kept up such a deadly hail of flak that resupply flights to the defenders were down to a dribble. In those bleak days of April 1954, only one thing could have saved the besieged garrison: American help. That help was denied-and, according to French-born Historian Bernard B. Fall, it was largely because of objections by then Senate Minority Leader Lyndon...
...professor of international relations at Howard University who has known Viet Nam since 1953, Fall says-correctly-that a U.S. bombing raid to destroy Viet Minh antiaircraft batteries ringing Dienbienphu was strongly favored at the time by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Arthur W. Radford. In fact, U.S. military planners considered both conventional and nuclear bombing attacks and warned the Administration that, if the nation intervened, the Air Force should be free to use whatever weapons were needed; no decision on this was made. Fall writes that planning...
...United States. This, of course, is a rather withered cry, but they have given it a new moral twist. They invoke America's "dying youth" in Vietnam and intone righteously that this is no time to cuddle up to a nation giving aid and comfort to Ho Chi Minh...
...Asian politics. His handling of the Buddhist "struggle" crisis last spring showed expert timing. His Cabinet-level downgrading of ambitious "Southerners" has been deft and sometimes subtle. His trip to Australia and New Zealand, despite demonstrations against him, generally created a surprisingly good impression. Unlike such predecessors as Big Minh and Nguyen Khanh, the flamboyant, purple-scarfed aviator has been remarkably low key in his power plays. Last week Ky's cool tactics canceled a major threat to his country's stability. At a remove of 6,000 miles, Ky undercut and exiled his Deputy Premier and Defense...
Barbara Deming, who recently returned from Hanoi, will speak on "My Impressions of Ho Chi Minh." The talk will be given at 3 p.m., Sunday, January 29 in the Cambridge Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park...