Word: gulf
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Branch's narrative is rich in historical ironies, none more telling than the gruesome discovery of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner on the same day that Lyndon Johnson used a dubious North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to enlarge a war he privately did not believe...
...sustained bombing--even though they acknowledge air power alone is unlikely to eliminate his capability to resume production of chemical and biological weapons. But if the U.N. monitors are unable to perform their mission, little is lost by resort to force, they argue. In the end, even the gulf states, though ambivalent about U.S. military action, are more concerned about their security than about the reaction on the Arab street. Their attitude has helped convince Washington policymakers that failure to respond to Saddam's seemingly endless provocations would have profound security implications for the oil-rich region...
Black students take over Massachusetts Hall in protest of Harvard's investments in companies that do business in the former Portuguese colony of Angola. Alleging that the University investments in corporations such as Gulf Oil Inc. "facilitate the daily slaughter of Africans," the protesters hold a "mill-in" at University Hall in February. When President Derek C. Bok announces in April that Harvard will not sell its stock, 33 students occupy Massachusetts Hall, forcing the first-years who live there relocate to a nearby hotel...
...residual anti-war fervor left over from Vietnam was not sufficient to prevent The Crimson from supporting the Gulf...
...very clear that they don't intend to budge unless more pressure is applied," says TIME correspondent William Dowell ? which puts the situation back to where it was in November, except that diplomacy will have been shown to have failed. "There's a massing of military force in the Gulf right now, enough to make Saddam blink," says Dowell. "If he doesn't back down, there will be a strong argument for using...