Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with windows boarded up. At a cabaret once loud with the jokes and brawling of red-bereted paratroopers, sailors and the képis blancs of the French Foreign Legion, all was quiet. By the hundreds and thousands the French, with no place in the new independent state of Viet Nam, were leaving the city they had once made famous as "the Paris of the Orient...
Last week Radio France Asie, the official French broadcasting station in the area, closed down for good, and from Paris came word that the last of France's troops, some 13,000 in all, would leave Viet Nam in the immediate future. For weeks truckloads of French soldiers bound for troubled North Africa have rumbled towards the waterfront, their full-throated soldiers' songs ringing out under the arched tamarind trees like a recessional. "There is no singing now," said the French proprietor of a local bar when they had passed. "Only the voices of the ghosts...
...possible return to power with the aid of neighboring Chinese and Indo-China communists a la Ho Chi Minh. Pibul's cause has been considerably helped by U.S. economic and military aid which he secured after February 1950 by abandoning Thailand's traditional neutralism to recognize Bao Dai's Viet Nam government. With well over $50 million in U.S. military aid, he has built up a trained army of slightly over 50,000 men. Meanwhile, General Phao's police force has been built up into a corps of 54,000 men, fully equipped with helicopters and armored cars...
...French uniform, professionals and veterans who had fought for France in Europe and Indo-China. Only the officer in command and a scattering of other ranks were French. Among the 80 Moslems was Corporal Cheraf Abd el Krim, who in Indo-China had been captured by the Communist Viet Minh and then released...
Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...