Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press conference, is "deplorable and repulsive." In a departure from its usual practice of turning prisoners over to South Viet Nam's forces, the U.S. made known that it held 19 North Vietnamese sailors captured last month when their torpedo boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin-with the implication that they were hostages against a possible exchange of prisoners. From President Johnson came a proposal for a Red Cross-sponsored conference to bring about enforcement of the 1949 Geneva Convention, which specifically prohibits reprisals against prisoners...
...plane a day over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
Hostile Land & Unforgiving Sea. Pilot Jesse J. Anderson, 39, had been orbiting his HU-16 amphibious Albatross over the Gulf for nearly seven hours when he picked up the Phantom's cry for help. Gunning his motors, Anderson sped toward the crippled plane. Before he arrived, the crew bailed out: one pilot dropped into the waters of the Gulf barely half a mile from the North Viet Nam coast, the other a mile farther out. Both were soon under heavy shore fire from machine guns and mortars as they bobbed helplessly in the water. Six U.S. fighter planes zoomed...
Transceiver & Beeper. Pilots who are hit head for open water if they can. "Our chances of rescuing a pilot who falls in the Gulf of Tonkin are 99%," says the Third's commander, Colonel Arthur W. Beall, 50, of Orlando, Fla. Even over North Viet Nam itself, the Third estimates that it pulls out 60% of downed airmen, excluding those who fall directly into populous or heavily garrisoned zones. Rescues are effected by a combination of coordination, technology and guts. Each airman is equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope...
...promote the latest offerings of local merchants. Even so, the morning Mobile (Ala.) Register (circ. 46,905) and the afternoon Mobile Press (circ. 71,483) had understandable attractions for Publisher Sam Newhouse: the only dailies in town, they are moneymakers, and they offer one more foothold in the burgeoning Gulf Coast region where the Newhouse empire has been busily expanding.* So Sam "bought" Mobile...