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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slipped back into the hospital with a secret potion, put three drops of it into a glass of water and gave it to his wife. He did the same the next day. Her sight began to return...
...best, the offer was designed to sow tension and distrust among Red flyers, keep flight leaders so busy worrying about out-of-sight pilots that they would not be able to tend to their business. There was even the possibility that, to prevent defection, the Reds might ration fuel, thus limiting the time the MIGs can stay in the air to patrol and fight...
Advancing in five columns, Viet Mink Communists were in sight of the ancient Laotian capital of Luang Prabang last week. Flying in with French reinforcements, TIME Correspondent John Dowling reported: THE plane, loaded with Legionnaires, JL jeeps, artillery, barbed wire, ammunition, slips smoothly into the grass airstrip. We step out and the hills and mountains enclose us in their green embrace. To the west, rising from the jungle, is a hill surmounted by a white, bell-shaped stupa (shrine) whose glistening, golden spire points needlelike at a soft blue sky. To the east and south tower the forest-clad mountains...
...ragged backwash of war, refugee Laotians and Thais, men from the hills, a few weary, bearded soldiers, the remnant of overtaken outposts, who have escaped over jungle trails or by floating down chutelike rapids on improvised rafts. Behind them come five Viet Minh columns, the nearest now within sight of us. They have traveled fast, but they have not had an easy passage. On the way in, we saw Hellcat and Bearcat fighters filling the tight green valleys with the orange-red bursts and the soot-black smoke of napalm. Now the sound of bursting bombs comes like slow thunder...
...military parade, without the usual ominous big tanks and guns, was whisked out of sight in 13 minutes, the shortest show of muscle in all Soviet May Day history. That other stock skit on such occasions, the staged break of a little girl from the ranks bearing a bouquet to a beaming Stalin, was multiplied tenfold this year. Ten little girls headed up the steps, handed over ten bouquets, one for each Presidium member, carefully showing no favoritism among the new rulers...