Word: mayaguez
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...Pacific could have found it easy to maintain confidence in the U.S." The Japanese, who depend heavily on oil tankers and freighters that use the seas off the Cambodian coast, called the U.S. action justified. Australians generally regarded the U.S. action as inevitable and believed that the Mayaguez had to be recaptured if U.S. influence in the Far East was to be taken seriously...
...Democrats, including Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and George McGovern of South Dakota, expressed reservations about Ford's use of force to free the Mayaguez and its crew. But the vast majority of Senators and Representatives from both parties applauded the President's decision. Illinois Democrat Melvin Price, chairman of the House Armed...
Congressional and other critics have questioned whether it was necessary to bomb the Cambodian mainlaind. After all, about the same time as the assault began, the Cambodians had expressed a willingness to release the Mayaguez. Ford argues that the bombing was needed to keep an estimated 2,400 Cambodian soldiers stationed around Kompong Som from joining the battle on the island. TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer reported that the President told congressional leaders just before the military action began: "I am not going to risk the life of one Marine. I'd never forgive myself." Ford further explained: "The question...
...Singapore, TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan interviewed members of the Mayaguez crew. Some of their reactions...
...crisis of the Mayaguez was the old-fashioned variety, the kind that men of power in Washington, most of whom are graduates of the cold war, could understand and relish, and they...