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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Commanding General Henri Navarre put down several thousand men at the undefended Communist port of Tuyhoa. Among his principal objectives: to recover the headline initiative, revalorize the folks back home and convince the U.S. that his army was worth more aid. Two weeks ago, the Communists moved one division in three lightly equipped columns toward the royal Laotian capital of Luang Prabang (pop. 15,000). Presumably they could not hold the capital long with their extended supply lines. Their objective: to win headlines, increase the war weariness of the French Cabinet and public, and synchronize with...
...thousand Jews jammed the streets of Red Bucharest in front of the new Israeli legation on Valentine's Day 1949, dancing and crying "Long live Israel." After 15 years of Fascist pogroms and four more of Communist misery, the exhilarating dream of the promised land had suddenly become a reality. Thousands sold their last belongings to buy fantastically priced exit permits and steamship tickets, bade goodbye to their children and set forth to Israel, empty-handed but hopeful. By the end of 1951, when the Reds suddenly ordered a stop to emigration, 120,000 of Rumania...
...offer brought complete confusion into RKO trading on the New York Stock Exchange as the market opened this week. Some 15,000 buying orders, ranging from a few hundred to several thousand shares each, piled up before the opening, many of them "at the market." The first sale was held up for almost 2½ hours while orders were sorted out. Finally, a block of 200,000 shares was traded. The price...
...increased non-military help in addition to the present arms aid. Chester Bowles' experience in India demonstrated that best results in a technical aid program do not come with blatant give-away campaigns. More good was accomplished by the introduction of a ten-dollar modern plough than by a thousand dollars of free rice. And this is the policy that America should follow in Indo-China, as well as in other countries in like situations. The U.S. should attempt to maintain good will among the citizens of Indo-China by convincing them that America is interested in their well being...
...spite of all obstacles, however, Les Eyzies yielded impressive results. In six weeks of digging. Movius and his assistants found more than ten thousand artifacts in a trench only a meter wide by 13 meters long. He has extensive plans for future work in the area-'I'd like to dig there for six or seven years," he says. Movius hopes ot establish an international summer project at the site for interested students form institutions all over the world. "It would be a place for people who want training in excavation techniques," he explains, 'I'd be glad to take...