Word: mayaguez
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...Jerry Ford what he liked best: tramping through the snow with Henry Kissinger in Vladivostok to work out a SALT agreement or sending the Marines after the Mayaguez? Ten to one for peace. And Jimmy Carter will never come closer to heaven in this life than when he flew back from Camp David to announce that Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat had accepted his peace accords...
...different precedent was offered by the Mayaguez incident. On May 12, 1975, Cambodian forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its 39 crewmen in the Gulf of Siam. On May 14 the ship was freed, after U.S. fighter jets had sunk three Cambodian gunboats, the Marines had landed on Cambodia's jungle islet of Koh Tang, and the U.S. had bombed a Cambodian air base at Ream. As soon as the ship was seized, President Ford simply declared the matter "an act of piracy," then threatened military action. On May 14 he dutifully appealed to the United Nations...
GSAS students from Puerto Rico first proposed the recruiting effort in their home island. Lipsky and the other representatives visited the Universities of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and Rio Piedras and the Inter-American University in San Juan...
...After the Mayaguez, a small U.S. merchant ship headed for Thailand, was seized by a Cambodian gunboat, President Ford ordered a military rescue by 1,100 Marines. All 39 Mayaguez crewmen were freed, but at the cost of 41 U.S. servicemen killed and 50 wounded...
...raid on the prison camp in North Viet Nam and the response to the seizure of the Mayaguez were far from models of success, but Nixon and Ford trumpeted the audacity of the missions and pride replaced doubt...