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...Thien, plainly, is not Dienbienphu. The French garrison was 76 min. by air from its supply sources, isolated in a narrow valley over 200 miles from the French stronghold at Hanoi. The French were hemmed in and, after the 56-day Viet Minh siege began, had to be resupplied by parachute drops through dense antiaircraft fire. Con Thien can be resupplied within six minutes by helicopter from Dong Ha, ten miles to the southeast, or by land from Cam Lo, seven miles to the south, when the road is not washed out. The French conceived of Dienbienphu as "the cork...
...military planners had reckoned that if their forces won the high ground on the first day, the rest of the campaign would be easy. It was. The next morning the Golani infantrymen met only token resistance as they pushed on to the Lebanese border. From its behind-the-lines stronghold at Kallah, tanks raced along undefended roads toward the Syrian headquarters at El Quneitra. In the central sector, the diversionary probes of the previous day expanded into a full-scale pincer movement that took Aalleiga, a pivotal point in the Syrian second line of defense, and then split into flying...
...STAR-SPANGLED GIRL is Doc Simon's latest and least amusing comedy. Tony Perkins and Paul Sand play self-conscious kooks whose male stronghold is upset by a determined female square (Sheilah Wells...
Emerging from their stronghold in the plantation country near Punia, Schramme and his men began a march on the border city of Bukavu, once a resort for rich Belgian colonials. They met little resistance. Warned by jungle telegraph that the mercenaries were approaching, the defenders of Bukavu threw away their arms, commandeered civilian clothes, and fled across the Ruzizi River into Rwanda...
...Badge. In neighboring Alabama, trouble was triggered not by shooting but by shouting. Black Power Prophet Stokely Carmichael started it with a wild argument at a voter registration meeting in Prattville, a reputed Ku Klux Klan stronghold ten miles from Montgomery. Stokely's target was Prattville Assistant Police Chief Kenneth Hill, who shot and killed a Negro early this year during a jailbreak attempt after a mistaken arrest for murder. When Hill showed up at the meeting, Carmichael yelled: "Take that tin badge off and I'll take care of you myself!" After getting reinforcements, the cops arrested...