Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson wilted in the second half against a rare zone defense but coasted to victory...
...Bitter River. Inside Dienbienphu there was little food, little wine. At one point there was just enough ammunition for three days' fighting. The drop zone was so small that much of the French supplies and many paratroop reinforcements drifted into the enemy lines. In one sector the Communists were only about 700 yards from the French center, and the front lines were often less than 40 yards apart. The Red field gunners and mortarmen had perhaps the most concentrated target in all Indo-China: the French perimeter was only 2,000 yards wide. The French artillery was ineffective...
...West Germany, onetime (1930-32) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Max Schmeling heard that Franz Diener, the man he beat for the German boxing crown in 1928, had landed in a Soviet-zone jail. Diener's crime: while chief butcher in an East German sausage factory, he got caught passing out state-owned Bratwurst to hungry friends. Schmeling wrote to East Germany's Puppet President Wilhelm Pieck, got Diener pardoned by the Russians. Last week, after refusing a job as East Germany's commissar of boxing, Franz Diener fled to West Berlin and gratefully awaited a reunion with...
...Lone Beacon. At 0050, air-ground reported: "Banjo Six is going in."Tracers arched over the drop zone. On Banjo Six's second pass, there were more enemy tracers and white bursts of flak following the plane. Banjo Six reported one hit but no casualties. At 0103, a mortar flare bloomed over the drop zone and revealed, for an elusive moment, the trenches and scarred earth below. Then mortar shells burst in angry red balls across the drop zone. For the paratroopers that was the toughest drop of the night...
...lucky tonight," said Sergeant K. "The Viets are being polite." Two hours later, it was time for us to head back to Hanoi, and Sergeant K. radioed brief word down to the defenders of Dienbienphu: "End for me. See you tomorrow." As Luciole turned homeward, the drop-zone lights blinked out save for one lone navigation beacon in the dark, a bright symbol of the garrison's famous stand...