Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...times the Viet Minh Communists attacked and retreated, leaving 3,000 dead on the wire. The French, whose strategy is based on the principle that the Viet Minh cannot take heavy losses, were jubilant. On Christmas Eve the French broke out a force of 5,000 men to the southeast, linked up with Viet Nam paratroopers dropped near the Black River. Instead of meeting expected opposition, the French found no sign of the enemy. Said a French army spokesman: "Nasan is no longer besieged . . . [We] have recovered the initiative in the Thai country." As the French saw it, the battle...
...suggest General Sir Gerald Templer who, in such a short time, has achieved so much in working to clear Communism in the Malayan Peninsula? Without his ability the Communists will certainly . . . overrun all of Southeast Asia...
...three reporters assigned to the trip met at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, then headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue. He waited only a moment before a sedan picked him up and whisked him toward Mitchel Field. There crewmen worked rapidly around two Constellations...
COTTON (Dallas): Southwest Conference Champion Texas (8-2) will meet a perennial bowl contender, Tennessee (8-1-1), runner-up for the Southeast Conference title...
...Rally to arms all the U.S.'s Asiatic allies-not only the "truly gallant" South Koreans, but the Japanese, Filipinos and Southeast Asians who are opposed to Red tyranny...