Word: mayaguez
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...Robin Warren experienced a thrill. This is how it must have been done when Kennedy embargoed Cuba, and Nixon invaded Cambodia, and Ford rescued the Mayaguez. Those moments in recent history began with a few men in these very rooms, deciding life and death; now he was one of those men. It was not so much a feeling of pride; it was fulfillment. . . He wondered if they always felt high when they dealt with these issues of life and death. - The Whole Truth...
...container ship Mayaguez, object of a dramatic show of force when it was captured by Cambodian Communists and then liberated by the U.S. Marines in May of 1975, will soon be auctioned for scrap. Its owners, Sea-Land Service Inc., said the 35-year-old vessel was "too old to be efficient...
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...rally American voters and foreign leaders, a bit of saber rattling that almost seemed to fulfill a script lightly pondered last fall by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Talking to some congressional aides, Brzezinski said it might be good for Carter if he were to have a "Mayaguez," recalling the ship seizure by Cambodians in which Gerald Ford counterattacked with Marines and raised his prestige. It might, suggested Brzezinski only partially seriously, show Carter's resolve...
...Zaire Carter's Mayaguez, unintentional or otherwise? Over at the State Department, where the blood runs thinner and cooler, they watched with fascination, felt the changing moods hour by hour. After Carter dined with France's President Giscard d'Estaing, who sent paratroopers to Kolwezi, the internal White House talk toughened. There was almost exhilaration, not an uncommon emotion in the White House when a good clean crisis is in the offing, with bad guys to denounce and admired allies standing shoulder to shoulder. Then a series of political meetings between Carter's domestic tacticians Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell...