Word: dienbienphu
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...reports of the bloody fighting raised ominous questions. Was another Dienbienphu in the making on the Ho Chi Minh Trail? Or were the mounting skepticism and the darkening headlines caused, at least in part, by the impossible conditions imposed on news coverage (see THE PRESS)? By way of reassuring the U.S. public, the Administration launched a vigorous public relations campaign...
...VIET NAM: Before the Geneva conference of 1954, when Viet Nam was divided into North and South, Ho Chi Minh visited Moscow. The Communists had not yet scored their stunning victory at Dienbienphu and their situation was "very grave," says Khrushchev. When the Russians heard that France proposed the 17th Parallel as the dividing line at the conference, "we gasped with surprise and pleasure. The 17th Parallel was the absolute maximum we would have claimed ourselves...
Another anniversary, perhaps more instructive in 1970 than V-E day, passed unmarked in the U.S. last week. On May 7, 1954, Viet Minh troops overran the 10,000-soldier garrison of French Brigadier General Christian de Castries at Dienbienphu...
...successful struggle against the French, was forced to leave school in 1910 for anti-French opinions. The Japanese occupation of Indochina during World War II swept away the myth that the white man was indestructible. Before long, that dramatic discovery led to a place and turning point called Dienbienphu...
...athletics, and an even longer list of girl friends). Then, after sensing a tide of resentment against de facto French control in Cambodia, he demanded complete independence for his nation and marched off into voluntary exile to await it. Ten months later, just weeks before the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Paris granted his demand and Sihanouk returned home in triumph...