Word: claims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whatever it was-Maddox took up patrol, with orders never to venture closer than eight miles to the North Vietnamese mainland, or closer than four miles to any Northern islands. How close she did go, in fact, has not been disclosed. McNamara maintains that Hanoi never officially announced its claim to a twelve-mile boundary until Sept. 1, 1964, so that, as far as the U.S. was concerned, Maddox was always within international waters...
...past, Kuchel gained few friends among conservative Republicans by refusing to support the campaigns of Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and George Murphy. Reagan is publicly remaining "neutral," though privately urging Republican contributors to withhold funds from Rafferty in order to maintain party unity. Yet Rafferty's supporters claim that they have already raised $250,000 from small donations and seem confident that they will be able to get $500,000 more in order to meet the anticipated costs of the campaign. Says Industrialist Henry Salvatori, a leading G.O.P. fund contributor and staunch Reagan supporter: "There is a feeling among...
...Rann in early 1965, but agreed to submit the conflict to binding international arbitration before a larger border war broke out a few months later over Kashmir. The tribunal turned down Pakistan's bid for the area but, in a 2-to-l decision, confirmed its claim to two tiny areas that jut into Pakistan and a small northwest corner where Pakistani officials for years have administered justice to a few nomads. The judges gave the rest to India, on the basis of old British demarcations that placed the Rann* in the territory that became India after...
...tutelage of immigrant European craftsmen became known as mestizo (half-breed). It incorporated Christian and pre-Columbian conventions and beliefs, even included Oriental designs (copied from wares that had been imported via Pacific trade routes). The results were too precocious to pass for primitive, and not subtle enough to claim genuine sophistication. But as two current displays of post-Columbian Peruvian art testify, at its best the mestizo style was both lyrical and inventive (see color opposite...
...would say that they came as an absolute and complete surprise. The American military claim they knew about them. If they did know about them why they were thoroughly unprepared for them, and in a sense are culpable because of that. My guess is they really didn't know about them, or that they didn't believe the attacks could be as widespread, as well coordinated, as strong as they were. I mean I think the American military command in South Vietnam has suffered from what one newsman called an enormous dose of self-deceit. They had begun to believe...