Word: gulf
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Last August, when Red torpedo boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, Johnson ordered air strikes against their home bases-but he made it eminently clear that this was a one-shot reprisal and would not be repeated, except under similar provocation. For months afterward, as Hanoi steadily increased the rate of infiltration via jungle trails threading into South Viet Nam until it reached the rate of at least 1,000 men a month, Johnson did nothing. Twice the Viet Cong struck directly at U.S. personnel, and twice they got away with it. Two days before...
...North of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence sources noted no unusual signs of activity, either in Hanoi's 225,000-man army or in a Red Chinese force of 300,000 that has been massed just over the North Vietnamese border since last summer's Ton kin Gulf crisis...
...flew planeloads of the union-management negotiators from Texas and Florida to Washington. The panel sat up until just before dawn to hear their views, then gave both sides one hour to take or leave its proposals: a return to work, followed by mediation and arbitration for the West Gulf; 16-man minimum gangs and two hours' pay when weather prevents work for the South Atlantic. The President endorsed the terms and the employers accepted them, but the union turned them down. Negotiations will resume this week...
...began with the biggest real-estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thomas Jefferson a parcel of land called Louisiana. It ran from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and it was quite a bargain: 827,987 sq. mi. for $15 million. But what the U.S. owned it did not occupy. Already British traders were pressing south from Canada and Spanish raiders were roaming north from Mexico. Jefferson realized that he would have to move fast if America was to retain its new territory. He moved fast...
...expansion of the Vietnamese war. To that effect, Press Secretary George Reedy issued a statement: "Today's joint response was carefully limited to military areas which are supplying men and arms for attacks in South Viet Nam. As in the case of the North Vietnamese attacks in the Gulf of Tonkin last August, the response is appropriate and fitting...