Word: viets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people of Viet Nam, whether Christian or Buddhist, an unburied body is weight on the conscience of living men; its unseated soul wanders endlessly among the living, begging for suitable sepulcher. In the year in which Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem has presided over the precarious young state of South Viet Nam, there has never been far from his mind the need to set one such wandering soul at rest...
...Tigers that the novelist holds cards the diplomat could never hope to draw. The proving ground is Indo-China around 1950, when the Communists had fully shown their hand but had not yet begun their big push. How was the U.S. to handle its difficult French allies, faction-ridden Viet Nam, the everlasting intrigue, the demagogic appeal of the Reds...
...Russian-born Wolf Ladejinsky was fired as a security risk by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from his job as an Asian land-reform planner. The charges were aired and proved ridiculous; Ladejinsky was rehired by Harold Stassen's Foreign Operations Administration to work on land reform in Viet Nam. Last week the International Cooperation Administration (successor to FOA) announced that it had demanded and received Ladejinsky's resignation. This time the charges were about 100% different: Ladejinsky appeared as a capitalist investor-and in the economy of Nationalist China, at that...
...Algerian hills, closed down mines and quarries, converted scores of villages into sandbagged strongpoints. It has sucked into Algeria over 200,000 French troops, including the best part of France's NATO divisions, and the bulk of the colonial army now being brought home from South Viet Nam. By contrast, the fellagha's armed strength is less than 10,000 men, possibly less than 5,000. They have no mortars, no artillery, no radios, no armored vehicles. Some fellagha are armed with rifles and Tommy guns, but most have only knives. Lacking explosives, they use axes to chop...
...fellagha operate at night in bands of 12 to 15, hiding in the caves or the deep cork forests by day. "They are naturally beautiful fighters," says Pierre Galuzot, a lieutenant in the Foreign Legion. "They are tougher than the Viet Minh Communists; they are the best marksmen I have ever fought against...