Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week to assuage committee members. He aroused their ire on the first point by declaring it was "monstrous" to charge that the Administration had "induced" North Vietnamese attacks on patrolling U.S. destroyers. No one on the committee had flatly made any such allegation, though Wayne Morse did come close by declaring that the U.S. had provoked the North Vietnamese. McNamara then released a highly condensed version of his testimony that was hotly criticized by Chairman J. William Fulbright on the grounds that it omitted anything that would damage the Administration's case. The committee's threat...
With the new equipment-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...
Contrite Candor. Mentioned in another AID scandal was Max M. Kampelman, 47, a Washington lawyer who served as Humphrey's legislative assistant for six years and is still regarded as a close political confidant of the Vice President's. Representing a Minneapolis company called Napco Industries Inc., Kampelman signed a $2,300,000 loan agreement with AID in 1962 to send auto-parts plant equipment to New Delhi. Napco failed to deliver, and the Justice Department recently filed suit to collect...
...battlefield itself, swift jet fighter-bombers flash in under the low-hanging clouds to dump napalm and explosives on enemy positions that are now as close as 300 yards to the base perimeter. The Marines are, in fact, relying on air to do the job of pinpoint destruction that their own artillery would normally undertake. Reason: they lost so many shells when their ammo dump was hit three weeks ago that they are conserving ammunition for the big attack...
...does Hull. His front teeth sit out the game on a locker-room shelf, and his once handsome profile looks as if it had been rearranged in a demolition derby. His nose has been broken twice, and at last count 200 stitches have been taken to close all the various cuts and slices in his face...