Daffodil International University
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => Journalism & Mass Communication => Topic started by: Shah Nister Kabir on May 11, 2015, 04:19:43 PM
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Saigon fell 40 years ago this week. The defeat of the United States seemed at the time to be a world-changing event, which demonstrated that even the planet’s foremost power could not prevail if resolutely opposed. But it was the second time the mistake had been made: 20 or so years before, schoolteachers in French provincial towns had wept in front of their pupils as the impossible, the unbelievable news came in that the army had been vanquished in Dien Bien Phu.
Source: the Guardian (England)