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USAF C-119 with 24 aboard crashes off Tripoli; 5 saved; craft en route to Wheelus Base from Udine, Italy
Campus improvement plans; sketches; A H Sulzberger on outlook for classes taking over planned benches as memorials
made hon Tokyo citizen; leaves for US
Piccioni forming Cabinet of Christian Dems, Liberals and Dems; Right Socialists will back it in Parliament but refuse active role; Piccioni rejects Left Socialists and Communist bids; illus with Einaudi
Repr Celler, Sen Mundt
1953First Indochina War: The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.[†]
The First Indochina War was fought in Indochina between France and the Việt Minh, and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 1 August 1954. The Việt Minh was led by Võ Nguyên Giáp and Hồ Chí Minh. The conflict mainly happened in Vietnam.
In 1953, the world population was approximately 2,634,106,235 people[†]