Word: flagging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that his dispute with the Administration was not over. "We are holding it in abeyance for a better day," he said, "when the matter of our involvement in Viet Nam as a matter of national policy can be discussed as freely as possible and without being entwined into our flag, which flies over the Capitol. Nobody wants a white flag on the Capitol...
...Victory ships dragged out of mothballs for service in Viet Nam, was ready to sail again after a $400,000 refit and new coat of grey paint. For her rededication, Red Oak Mayor Joseph Tiffin flew to Portland, Ore., with a specially stitched town flag, which Captain Robert Blood will hoist when the ship weighs anchor for Viet Nam with a cargo of lumber and ammunition. Said Maritime Administrator Nicholas Johnson at the ceremony: "Once more Americans are fighting for freedom halfway around the world. Once more ships are needed to supply the tools of battle. And once more...
...troops guarding it. For hours the battle raged-interrupted only by one brief pause when the rebels permitted Hafez' wife and a wounded daughter to escape. Outmanned and outgunned, the defenders were finally whittled down to three men, who came out with hands up and holding a white flag. They were gunned down in their tracks, and a placard hung on the front of the demolished home: "This is the fate of all traitors." According to some reports, Hafez was captured and put under arrest; other reports claimed he was elsewhere during the shooting and managed to escape. Either...
...Onstage a woman in a negligee was bombarded with raw eggs, a stark-naked Negro beat the drums, an acrobat bounced on the trampoline. Without letup, pounding music exploded in the eardrums and blurred reason. Most spectators joined in the fun. One wore a toga made from an American flag, another sported a sign reading: "You're in the Pepsi generation, I'm a pimply freak." A girl dancer stripped to the waist, had to be rerobed by a friendly...
Actually, the Administration's blacklist is based more on principle than on strategic considerations. Of 119 free-flag ships that called at North Vietnamese ports in 1965 (v. 401 in 1964), only 44 did so after the President's July decision to build up U.S. military aid to Saigon. The U.S. faces a difficult problem in cutting the flow further, since this nation is not formally at war with North Viet Nam and must rely on persuasion rather than force to stop the trade. But the expressions of disapproval-and the high cost of insurance-have had some...