Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, where it was now afternoon, President Johnson met with his top advisers and the National Security Council, and began considering the possibility of an air strike against the enemy boats and their bases. Meanwhile frantic messages were asking Task Force 72.1 whether an engagement had taken place at all. "Can you confirm absolutely that you were attacked?" asked Admiral Ulysses S. Grant Sharp, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet from Honolulu. "Can you confirm sinking of PT boats? Desire reply directly supporting evidence...
...part of the seven tiny Trucial* States perched on the Persian Gulf. They make up for their smallness by king-size feuds over their indefinite boundaries. There has been no end of dagger duels between the inhabitants of Abu Dhabi and Dubai, but last week delegations from both met in a cluster of mud huts on their mutual borders. After countless cups of tea, Sheik Zaid bin Sultan of Abu Dhabi and Sheik Rashid bin Said Al-Maktoum of Dubai signed a pact of federation that will give their joint population of 150,000 a common citizenship, flag, defense force...
Under the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker service organization, Mendelsohn visited Quaker projects and sought to assess the possibility of a peaceful solution to the Vietnamese conflict through conversations with Vietnamese civilians. In Cambodia he met with a high representative of the National Liberation Front...
...other set of changes that I came away with, also had to do with getting some things at first hand. In Phnom Penh, Cambodia, I met with a high official of the National Liberation Front. He is a well educated man, not an unattractive man, obviously quiet intelligent, I gather that he's on the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front...
...moment I know of four men who've been arrested although the teletype tells us that there probably have been upwards of thirty-five arrests. Among these four, we met and talked with two of them. Thich Tri Quang, the militant Buddhist leader, perhaps one of the most important of the Buddhist leaders in South Vietnam, has been arrested. We saw him just before the attacks; we saw one of his colleagues, Thich Tinh Minh, just after the attacks...