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...defenses. At the same time, the Saigon government realized that it was badly outgunned in Kontum as well. There are now four North Vietnamese divisions in the Central Highlands. Thieu met secretly in the coastal city of Nha Trang on March 14 with Lieut. General Pham Van Phu, commander of Military Region II. The President decided to take the most drastic of steps-strategic retreat. The four ranger groups defending Kontum were shifted southeast to the coastal province of Phu Yen, to be followed a few days later by the 1,200-truck refugee convoy from Pleiku...
...without chronology there can be no perspective, and without perspective there is no history. The viewer is thus left with a winding gallery of glimpses. Some of those glimpses are indelible. The late Georges Bidault, ex-Premier of France, remembers the time before the fall of Dien Bien Phu: "John Foster Dulles asked me, 'And if we were to give you two atomic bombs?' " An intelligence officer recalls the distaste American soldiers had for mutilating bodies. Instead of terrorizing North Vietnamese with human eyes stuck on the back of a corpse (a psy-war trick), the Americans made...
...between the underground and De Gaulle's London headquarters. Named army chief of staff in 1953, he made the final unsuccessful French appeal for American intervention in France's colonial war in Indochina. When Ho Chi Minh's troops overran the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu, Ely assumed command in Indochina, and it was he who announced in Saigon the Geneva accord dividing Viet Nam at the 17th parallel. He later played a key role in De Gaulle's effort to disengage from Algeria without provoking civil war in France...
...Communist city. North Vietnamese, Soviet and Chinese films play in the cinemas. Red flags are everywhere, and everywhere is the legacy of a war that has lasted for 30 years. Hanoi has not one but three war museums-one showing the battle of Dien Bien Phu, another acts of "American terrorism" and the third the thousand-year resistance against the Chinese and Mongols...
...were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...