Word: crew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PEOPLE--including members of both parties--have praised President Ford's decision last week to recover the Mayaguez and its crew by force. The entire affair attests not to the swiftness of U.S. action or the diplomatic benefits accrued as "a by-product, a bonus," as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 called them, but the loss of American and Cambodian lives...
...military operation and its aftermath leave several questions unanswered. For instance, the fact that the Defense Department had reason to believe that the crew members had been taken off Koh Tang--as in fact, they were--suggests that Ford sent Marines on to Koh Tank island not to retrieve crew members, but with no other purpose than to reassert American strength by killing Cambodian soldiers. All of the official postmortems emphasize the fact that the crew members were saved, without saying why Marines attacked Koh Tang when there was a reasonable doubt that crew members were still there...
There the crew failed to qualify for the finals, but rallied to defeat Czechoslovakia and win the consolations...
...second in the final. The only consolation was the fact that Vesper's eight, which went to Lucerne, Switzerland after the event, was not a collegiate one; instead it was a group of women from many other colleges who banded together after the regular season to form an unbeatable crew...
...interest in previous years, now field a varsity and a J.V. eight. This season first-year coach Peter Huntsman '74 brought varsity into Lake Beseck as the number-one seed, undefeated by any other lightweight boat. In the rough water, though, the boat placed second behind the same B.U. crew it had beaten earlier in the season...