Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear. Xieng Kho's garrison, dug in on a hillside above the village, consisted of 70 regulars of the royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed up by six other battalions which had been rushed to the defense of Samneua province...
...pattern of flight at Xieng Kho was repeated all along the river. A single-engine Beaver plane loaded with grenades, small arms and munitions, which was squared off to land at the weedy Muong Het airstrip, was met by machine-gun fire, barely got back to report that Muong Het had also fallen. An entire royal Laotian battalion of some 700 men, plus 400 home guards, had been cut to pieces...
...Wire, No Trenches. At week's end thousands of Communist invaders were being ferried across the Nam Ma river on rafts and rubber boats powered by out board motors, and Red patrols pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to flee to the provincial capital since it would be in Communist hands in a matter of days. General Amkha seemed to agree. To cheer up his downcast aides, he cracked: "I am more afraid of Tokyo taxicabs than of the Communists." But his seven battalions, numbering more than...
United Nations headquarters on the East River was host last week to more seagoing scientists than had ever before clustered on a single spot of dry land. Over 1,000 oceanographers from 38 countries gathered for the first International Oceanographic Congress, some 500 of them prepared to read scientific papers. During the two weeks of sessions every aspect of the oceans was scheduled for a full going-over, from the microscopic diatoms that float near the sunny surface to the mysterious cracks and bulges on the pitch-black bottom...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of Old Man, William Faulkner's story of a convict and a pregnant woman tossed together by a Mississippi River flood. One of Director John Frankenheimer's finest All times E.D.T. achievements. With Sterling Hayden and Geraldine Page...