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...PEOPLE--including members of both parties--have praised President Ford's decision last week to recover the Mayaguez and its crew by force. The entire affair attests not to the swiftness of U.S. action or the diplomatic benefits accrued as "a by-product, a bonus," as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 called them, but the loss of American and Cambodian lives...
Even though Congress should start immediately with an investigation into the Mayaguez's activities to determine whether or not it was violating Cambodia's waters or whether it was a spy ship, such an investigation won't turn up anything until long after this small war has garnered Ford a great deal of political mileage. That Ford is concerned about the political implications of the Mayaguez incident can be seen in the slow way the Defense Department is revealing its information. It was not until reporters specifically asked about a discrepancy in Pentagon reports that it revealed there...
...steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
...ALMA BENEDETTI Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
During the last two months, the field was thrown open to 8,951 candidates in 630 Federal examination rooms from Balboa Heights, C. Z., to Fort Kent, Me., from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...