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...five days & nights, the Communists have gained one-half of the northeast and a clawhold in the northwest-at a fearful price of 7,000 dead, some 10,-ooo wounded and 80 prisoners (on top of 9,000 casualties in Phase One). This is more than half Giap's original striking force. The dangling Communist dead are beginning to putrefy on the wire, and French planes drop leaflets in the enemy lines: "Remember Giap, the Butcher of Dienbienphu." The French have lost perhaps 2,000. But Dienbienphu holds...
...Colonel Christian de la Croix de Castries calls his staff to a bunker in the heart of Dienbienphu. Four Viet Minh Communist divisions-about 40,000 men -supplied for 113 days by ant lines of coolies, have completed buildup. They are ready to attack De Castries' isolated, 15,-ooo-man garrison. "Messieurs" says De Castries, "please stand by tomorrow...
...takes eight years before they really get good. Yet the Air Force's enlisted men are streaming out at the end of their four-year enlistments at the rate of 200,-ooo a year. It costs the U.S. $14,000 to train a skilled replacement. With officers (20% are Reserves), the picture is not much better...
...fuel bill for a nine-hour 6-47 mission is $11,OOO...
...people know how much industry already contributes. In 1954 business will donate well over $60 million to private U.S. colleges, plus additional funds for research and equipment. Du Pont will parcel out more than $700,-ooo, most of it for chemistry students and research. Union Carbide has gone even further. It is planning a $500,000 program which will eventually provide 400 scholarships a year for more than 30 colleges to administer without strings of any kind...