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...weather is holding, and General Raoul Salan has airlifted a formidable last-minute defense force into Luang Prabang. While they dig in for a long siege, patrols fend off the Communist vanguard...
...week's end Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, arrived in Hanoi. Said Radford, after a conference with French General Raoul Salan: "The situation is serious. The Viet Minh have introduced new complications in Laos, but the Viet Minh will be defeated. They must...
...French planned to make a stand near Xiengkhouang, on the vast limestone Plaine des Jarres north of Vientiane, the capital of Laos. Commandeering every available plane, including civil airliners, French General Raoul Salan packed them with troops and flew them into the Plaine des Jarres at the rate of 50 aircraft a day. At Saigon, soldier clerks and interpreters were sent off to fight in Laos. At week's end there was a strong force of Foreign Legion battalions reinforcing the slim Laotian army. But Communist Giap had chosen his time well: within a few weeks the rainy season...
...CAVE AND THE ROCK (276 pp.)-Raoul C. Faure-Morrow...
...proper study of mankind may be man, but writers from Aesop to George Orwell have found animals just as handy. Latest to study mankind by animal roundabout is French-born Novelist Raoul Faure, 43, a resident of California since 1941, who uses lizards for his parable, The Cave and the Rock...