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...Minh, the NLF is gonna win!" "Stop the war, end the bombing." "All we can say is... give peace a chance." "One side's right, one side's wrong; we're on the side of the Vietcong." "Dien Bien Phu in '72." Or, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today...
...movie as silly as John Wayne's legendary get-the-gooks epic, The Green Berets. But now we have The Boys in Com pany C, Sidney J. Furie's account of Marine warfare in the paddyfields, circa 1967-68. This inadvertently hilarious film is the Dien Bien Phu of war movies...
Jean-Bedel Bokassa was educated at mission schools, joined the army at the start of World War II and by 1950 had risen to the rank of company sergeant. He survived the debacle at Dien Bien Phu and later retired as a captain. When the Central African Republic became independent in 1960, the country's first President (and Bokassa's cousin), David Dacko, named him commander of the army. As the fledgling state suffered through the inevitable independence pangs, the frustrated President at one point shouted to a group of bureaucrats: "What this country needs is a good...
...restraint in inflicting his decided views on the 34-paper Knight-Ridder chain, which includes such fine dailies as the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Detroit Free Press. Knight, an Eisenhower conservative and friend of Nixon's, lost a son in World War II. From Dien Bien Phu on, he warned against American involvement in Southeast Asia, and when the U.S. did get involved, he continued to oppose the war in the "Editor's Notebook" he wrote. This went out to all his papers, but with no instructions that they must run it. "Most...
Chinese-made military trucks and Soviet troop carriers clog the rickety Long Bien bridge over the Red River, hauling sand and gravel to reconstruction projects around the city. The army has been pressed into service restoring communications, repairing roads, digging irrigation canals and even harvesting rice...