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Suddenly the Moroccan Sons of the Prophet were caught in a heavy enfilading fire. Muongs and Moroccans now began to pull back, fighting all the way. At twilight, General de Lattre's pilot warned him they must leave. From the Plexiglas window of his small plane, De Lattre continued to watcn the battle, saw that artillery fire had stopped the Communists...
Meanwhile, in Vinhyen, news of De Lattre's visit to the fighting front spread among the troops. The Muongs and Moroccan Mohammedans went back to the attack. While the Muong hill men held the flanks, the Moroccans flung themselves at Hill 101, got to the top. Then four Communist battalions counterattacked. Three times they were driven off that night, but the fourth time they broke into the Moroccans, took the hill...
...thin bamboo strands. On a better road a mile to the south, a column with mules transporting French 755 provided artillery support, while the French light cruiser Duguay-Tronin also zeroed in on Viet Minh positions. On the second day, Viet Minh opened machine-gun fire, but when Moroccan troops began closing in, they fled leaving behind no dead, no wounded...
Resplendent in the white uniform of the commander in chief of the Spanish air force, pudgy Generalissimo Francisco Franco set off fortnight ago on a tour of West Africa and the Canary Islands. In Morocco he watched heavily robed native dancers, graciously accepted from Moroccan notables the traditional gift of two camels. At Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canaries, the generalissimo gave an encouraging speech to officers of the local Spanish garrison, told them that the world was beginning to recognize the "reality" of Spain's cause...
Mutual Protection. Other solitary mariners have followed in Slocum's track since then,* but none ever quite matched Slocum's achievement or his natural bent for storytelling: how he was chased by Moroccan pirates, rode out a tidal wave off the Patagonian coast, spent weeks beating his way through the Strait of Magellan and fighting off marauding Tierra del Fuego Indians. One night, glassy-eyed from lack of sleep and unable to stand watch any longer, he went below for rest-after sprinkling the deck with carpet tacks that had been brought along for just such an emergency...