Word: outposts
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...commander in chief for Indochina. But Navarre, a World War I infantryman, only personified the Maginot mentality of most French career officers. Though warned that it would be fatal to fight a conventional engagement from a fixed base, Navarre concentrated 17 battalions in the North Viet Nam outpost, which lay in a ten-mile-long river valley. His strategy was to draw the Communist Viet Minh guerrillas into a set-piece battle in which French heavy weaponry would prove decisive. Along with tanks and artillery, his officers moved in their mess silver, embroidered white tablecloths, stocks of wine...
...problem of making an impression on the message-saturated egos of World's Fair visitors has turned Flushing Meadow into an outpost of Madison Avenue. Like many other exhibitors, the Protestant Council of the City of New York wanted something that would really attract attention to its $3,000,000 pavilion with its theme: "Jesus Christ, the Light of the World." Its choice, a 22-minute film called Parable, may get the council more attention than it bargained...
...grim tale of Viet Cong tactics. By night, clad in black, 200 Communist guerrillas stealthily forded the moat surrounding the sleeping outpost of the government Self-Defense Corps, snipped the barbed wire and charged. Inside, Red agents, who had infiltrated the garrison disguised as recruits, machine-gunned loyal troops in their bunks, set off secretly placed charges that toppled the fort's three watchtowers. By dawn, 28 government men lay dead, 36 wounded, and the Viet Cong had made off with virtually every weapon on the base. Looking about the ruins, a Vietnamese survivor gestured at pools of coagulating...
...place to shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...
...Chinese are funneling in funds for investing in real estate and local businesses. Even Red China is profiting by Hong Kong's prosperity: since it sells more than 20 times as much to the colony as it buys, it earns much of its foreign exchange through the capitalist outpost at its doorstep...