Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indo-China the Communist Viet Minh forces were closing in on the key city of Hanoi. Top U.S. military men were resigned to the imminent fall of Hanoi, of the whole Red River delta and of all northern Indo-China. Any possibility of a U.S. effort to save the North had been abandoned. It was too late. At the Pentagon the discussion had turned to another kind of effort: how to evacuate the 300,000 non-Communist residents and troops in the area. This would require some 130 ships, would rival Dunkirk in its drama and scope...
...effect, the U.S. thought northern IndoChina beyond repair...
...mile edge of the Red River Delta. The French, anxiously awaiting reinforcements from Europe and North Africa, still believed they could hold. The position on the eve of the Delta battle: Communists: Giap has deployed two infantry divisions and one heavy-weapons division against the Delta's northern rim; he has two divisions ready in the south...
...friend of mine proposes that separate schools be maintained for the majority of the children, with a small school for those few Yankees and NAACPers who just love to mix. In addition, a small, dilapidated one-room school should be kept in each southern county in order that our Northern "friends" might be able to continue their wailing about the wretched conditions in the South . . . Save your Confederate money, boys...
...district of Kustanay in remote northern Kazakhstan, a Russian wrote a despondent note to Moscow's Pravda, and for its own reasons, Pravda decided to publish...