Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seizure of the U.S.S. Pueblo in international waters came as an abrupt object lesson to Americans that the world's greatest power can be roundly and resoundingly put down by the most minuscule of foes. The Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961 was a portent, but it was a local and limited embarrassment that was soon forgotten. North Viet Nam has also proved the efficacy of persistent, small-scale Communist effort. Yet no other Communist state, big or small, has succeeded so well in provoking and frustrating the U.S. as North Korea did last week by hijacking Pueblo...
...Tactical Blunder." Others, recalling the clumsy initial cover-ups attempted during the U-2 and Bay of Pigs disasters, were more circumspect. Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon called the whole affair a "tactical blunder" by the U.S. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, long a G.O.P. supporter of the President's Viet Nam policy, demanded to know why the Administration risked provocative patrols "when you already have more war on your hands than you can handle." Warned Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "We ought to keep our shirts on and not go off half-cocked until we know more...
Risky Options. If Pyongyang decides not to cool it, however, the options open to the U.S. all involve serious risks. One is to storm Yonghung Bay and either retrieve Pueblo from Wonsan or destroy it-though a commando-style raid of the sort might involve heavy casualties. Seizing a North Korean ship or two would hardly be worth the effort inasmuch as the biggest, most attractive vessels Pyongyang has afloat are two 500-ton Russian-built mine sweepers. A blockade of Wonsan would mean cutting the Soviet submarine fleet off from one of its principal Far Eastern ports. Nabbing...
...Lowell House will also sponsor a concert at the Back Bay Theater during Jubilee Weekend...
This is the time of year for a certain persistent nostalgia, a vague regret for the semester that might have been. Well, it's too late for that semester, but it's not too late for the next. We sent Cardigan Bay, our peripatetic academic troubleshooter, out to the Coast last week, and he ended up discovering the transfer student's dream, the Midpeninsula Free University of Stanford, California...