Word: marinese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surrendering to the inevitable, he brought the Santa Maria into Recife harbor, dropped anchor 500 yds. from the pier. Tugboats ferried ashore the passengers and crew. Only then was it realized that Galváo had captured and controlled the big liner for twelve days with a tiny rebel force...
Neither Washington nor London had much appetite for putting a shot across the Santa Maria's bow and sending aboard a party of marines. Part of the difficulty was to decide just what crime had been committed. The 1958 Geneva treaty on Rules of the High Seas, specifically states...
2) LAOS. After a White House huddle between the President and top lieutenants, the Defense Department reacted sharply to a cry from the pro-Western government of Laos that several battalions of Communist troops had invaded Laos from North Viet Nam. "In view of the present situation in Laos," said...
Helluva Thing. If the U.S. got into a war under such conditions, asked one Southeast Asian official with bitter memories of Dienbienphu, "would the marines be prepared to stay in the jungles five, six or ten years?" Admitting that "this is a helluva thing for a military man to say...
Halfway around the world, midway between the red mud of Vientiane and the white marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In...