Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over North and South Viet...
...Oldsmobile. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines after Pearl Harbor, the stage was set for another leap in the Marcos legend. Called to duty as an intelligence officer, 2nd Lieut. Marcos required only a few weeks to become a hero. His idea of intelligence duty was to prowl behind the Japanese lines?often in his personal Oldsmobile sedan?probing for weak spots. He found one on Bataan's Mount Natib: a Japanese military battery that was lobbing 70-mm. shells into U.S. General Jonathan Wainwright's beleaguered defenders. Marcos and three privates scouted the battery, trailing two bearded Japanese artillerymen...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Foy Kohler, recently named Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that increased bombing carried the risk of killing Soviet technicians now being sent to North Viet Nam in ever greater numbers. To blockade Haiphong harbor-another step favored by the military-might, in his view, result in a military riposte from Russia...
...would give the President a blank check and those who make a public spectacle of themselves by protesting more for the sake of protest." He pledges "unqualified and complete support" for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and has suggested economic sanctions against those countries shipping into Haiphong harbor. Like everyone else, he is also for negotiations if and when...
Every war needs a slogan--to rally the masses and pluck at their purse `strings. Something easy and original like "Remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine," and "Remember Pearl Harbor!" But so far, in the absence of any singularly memorable event in the Vietnamese war, the phrase epitomizing the spirit of the American fighting man has gone unspoken...