Word: mayaguez
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ford is not a dynamic President. He is sound, solid and steady-a known quantity. If his caution prevents him from providing exciting leadership, it also minimizes the risks. His composure is unlikely to crack under the strain of crisis. Ford was notably relaxed while handling the celebrated Mayaguez affair. "We've got a little crisis," he said casually to some visitors in the Oval Office. "I don't know why it is, but these crises always seem to occur on Monday...
...expressed in a wide-ranging interview that will appear in the November Playboy. The result of five hours of interviews given over a three-month period to Writer Robert Scheer, the Playboy article quotes Carter on such substantive topics as U.S. intervention in foreign countries, multinational corporations and the Mayaguez incident. But none of these created a stir...
...World countries towards economic and political self-determination. The full implications of this policy were seen in the fifteen years of war in Southeast Asia where the armed forces conducted a campaign of terror and murder against the Indochinese people. The aggression of the Marines against Cambodia in the Mayaguez incident suggests that the role of the military has not changed. Whenever American policy makers feel the need to combat national liberation movements, the military will be there...
...world countries towards economic and political self-determination. The full implications of this policy were seen in the fifteen years of war in Southeast Asia where the armed forces conducted a campaign of terror and murder against the Indochinese people. The aggression of the Marines against Cambodia in the Mayaguez incident suggests that the role of the military has not changed. Whenever American policy makers feel the need to combat national liberation movements, the military will be there...
...visit even catapulted the Classics into national prominence when the Puerto Rican newspaper E1 Mundo mistakenly reported that they had come within one point of upsetting the national team in the game at Mayaguez. A United Press International picked up the story and sent out a wire dispatch that ran in many of the nation's leading papers the next morning...