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Nearly half of Mauritius' voters op posed independence (TIME, Aug. 18), feeling that the island has no future without British aid. When the Union Jack finally came down last week in the capital of Port Louis, feelings were still running high. The Creoles, who make up one-fourth of the island's 770,000 people and are against independence, boycotted the ceremony. The capital was still shrouded in mourning for 24 persons killed in January riots between pro-independence and anti-independence forces. Continuing unrest led Princess Alexandra, who had planned to represent Queen Elizabeth at independence ceremonies...
...morning of Aug. 2, Maddox saw three North Vietnamese torpedo boats near Hon Me. Later that day, three PT boats closed on Maddox within clear sight of her lookouts, and kept closing, despite warning shots. The battle was on. By the time it was over, one boat was dead in the water and presumed sinking; two others were damaged by F-8 Crusader jets, called in from the U.S. aircraft carrier Ticonderoga. Maddox suffered minimal damage. The Pentagon has pictures of the action, and no one questions this part of the story. The destroyer Turner Joy, a 2,850-tonner...
...Aug. 4, at 7:40 p.m., Maddox radarmen spotted what they reckoned to be five torpedo boats 36 miles to northeast. Task Group 72.1 began preparing for action...
Questioning, nonetheless, was still going on even after President Johnson ordered a retaliatory attack against North Viet Nam and announced shortly after 11:30 p.m. (Washington time) on Aug. 4 that the U.S. was officially sending men into battle for the first time since the Korean War. A few minutes later, 64 jets from Ticonderoga and Constitution blasted five targets in North Viet...
...obvious doubts, neither of the sharpest of the senatorial critics of the Johnson Administration's handling of the incident-Wayne Morse and William Fulbright-questions that some sort of an engagement did take place on Aug. 4. Others are not so sure. Yet even if it is conceded that the attack did happen, many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed...