Word: indochina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spectators assembled last week in Hanoi's Ba Dinh (Independence) Square for the funeral of Ho Chi Minh. "It was as if Dong had lost his father," said Jean Sainteny, France's official representative at the ceremonies and a veteran of many years in Indochina. "Suddenly he must have realized that he had to assume all the burdens of all the people of Viet Nam and of the collegiate leadership, without the advice...
...beginning, it was apparently a straight business proposition. McGuire, who began flying for the Army Air Forces during World War II and had shipped supplies to isolated French units during the Indochina War, was working for a small European airline. He stopped over at Lisbon in May, and saw some Lockheed Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran...
...year-old New Jersey was brought out of mothballs once before, for the limited war in Korea, and took part in the siege of Wonsan. The ship is a veteran of the South China Sea. During World War II, it participated in strikes against the Japanese-held Indochina coast, at Saigon and Camranh Bay, and served as flagship for both Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. It bears the same name as the World War I battlewagon that ended up as a target ship for General Billy Mitchell's famed demonstration of air power...
...beginning, it was apparently a straight business proposition. McGuire, who began flying for the Army Air Forces during World War II and had shipped supplies to isolated French units during the Indochina War, was working for a small European airline. He stopped over at Lisbon in May, and saw some Lockheed Constellations parked in a guarded portion of the airport there. "I knew what they were," he laughs, "In our business word gets around." Word had also reached him of the $1500 per trip salary for pilots ($1000 for flight engineers) and after a few inquiries, he joined the Biafran...
...Among some obvious choices are "an incoherent education system" and "a vogue for youth but not a policy for youth." Also an older generation "forever one revolution and one republic behind the times"-a generation still paralyzed by the traumas of two world wars and the colonial debacles of Indochina and Algeria...