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...Cambodia, southernmost of the three states (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) that make up the French Indo-Chinese Union. Cambodia, too, has come in for its share of strife, at the hands of some 1,800 guerrilla bandits led by an anti-French demagogue named Son Ngoc Thanh. Like Ho Chi Minh's rebels to the north, Son Ngoc Thanh's men are ostensibly non-Communist nationalists, but they are glad to accept Communist help...
...Pusan courtroom, nine of Rhee's army officers put Assemblyman Suh Min Ho on trial, accused him of murdering a South Korean army captain. Suh's lawyer told the court-martial that his client had shot in self-defense and had been acquitted by the Assembly. Suh is not very popular with South Korean army brass since he brought to light a half-million-dollar embezzlement scandal in Rhee's army...
Held back by their dislike and mistrust of the French, the Vietnamese had been slow under Premier Huu's regime to join in the life-or-death fight against Red Rebel Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas. The Premier seemed more interested in nailing down Viet Nam's independence than in promoting a fighting partnership with the French. Bao Dai (and the French) thought the time had come for a stronger man, and the Emperor had constitutional power to make the change. The new man is no stooge of the French, but believes that first things come first...
...years Tarn has been fighting Communists-at the time of the Communist insurrection in October 1930, during a second Red uprising in 1940, and for the last two years as boss of Viet Nam's busy, overworked security police. Two of his three sons were killed by Ho Chi Minh's Reds; the third, Brigadier General Nguyen Van Hinh, a crack pilot, commands the new Vietnamese national army now fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French. Tarn himself is under a standing Viet Minh sentence of death...
...announcer keeping score, Bob's brisk punches K.O. five more comrades, all of whom, he points out, have "egg chins." He rescues Rita, who breathes, "You're wonderful." "Save that for tea," says Bob, clubbing a reviving Red to the deck. In the midst of a tussle with Hung Ho, the Communist general is shot accidentally by his own aide...