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Clark's new report was carefully documented ; it included, as proof, translations of code messages between North Korean intelligence officers and their agents in the U.N. P.W. camps. Furthermore, the report charged flatly that North Korean General Nam Il personally directed disturbances in the prison camps at the time he was blandly conducting armistice negotiations over the green conference table at Panmunjom. Other findings...
Before she left for home, Louise began to compose. Back in Saigon, she married Nguyen Van Ty, an engineer who has since become a Viet Nam delegate to the Assembly of the French Union. She spent the next 15 years there, giving piano lessons and an occasional recital, jotting down native dance tunes and turning them into her own compositions. Eventually, she abandoned the Western seven-note scale in favor of the Oriental five-note kind, but her music still had some of the impressionist quality of Debussy and Ravel...
Straws in the wind: 1) local tribesmen are supplying the French with more information about Communist movements than ever before; 2) the native Viet Nam soldiers are coming into their own. French officers, once hostile to their small, thin allies, now speak enthusiastically of the Viet Nam soldiers, report them gaining in strength and spirit. Last week, in an isolated post 30 miles south of Hanoi, a small Viet Nam unit fought off Communist attacks until relieved by a column of their own armor and infantry. The tough little Viet Nam soldiers evacuated their wounded, rebuilt their fortifications...
...attacked and retreated, leaving 3,000 dead on the wire. The French, whose strategy is based on the principle that the Viet Minh cannot take heavy losses, were jubilant. On Christmas Eve the French broke out a force of 5,000 men to the southeast, linked up with Viet Nam paratroopers dropped near the Black River. Instead of meeting expected opposition, the French found no sign of the enemy. Said a French army spokesman: "Nasan is no longer besieged . . . [We] have recovered the initiative in the Thai country." As the French saw it, the battle of Nasan was a resounding...
...Black River, the Reds were using their old shock tactics: waves of expendables in sleeveless, padded green jackets shouting "Hochiminh Muon Nam" (Ho Chi Minh lives 1,000 years), throwing themselves on the French wire with bamboo Bangalore torpedoes and blasting a path for later waves. On the Red River front, Communist resistance, which had faded before the armor, was now reappearing in the rear and extended flanks of the French column, but the French drive itself threatened Thai Nguyen, the reputed Red capital, 44 miles north of Hanoi. In the flat, flooded delta, the brunt of guerrilla attack, directed...