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Less Than the Full Facts. Fulbright was not exactly polite in his attacks on the Administration. He was also disingenuous when he complained that a naval officer, still unnamed, had been given a psychiatric test because he doubted the official account of the Aug. 4 attack. A psychiatric test is a standard, if seemingly excessive procedure in the U.S. military when a lower-ranking officer questions the statements of his superiors, and the Navy was not necessarily trying to muzzle its critic in this case...
Maddox, a 2,200-ton destroyer, left Yokosuka, Japan, July 23 on what seemed to be a routine mission to observe North Vietnamese naval activity in the Gulf of Tonkin. Stopping at Taiwan, she took aboard a "black box," about the size of a moving van, crammed with electronic gear, and about a dozen new men to tend its innards. What was it for? Defense Secretary Robert McNamara insisted at first that the equipment "consisted in essence" of normal radio receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week...
Marijuana, creeping across college campuses a lot faster than ivy, has sprouted at the U.S. Naval Academy. As at all schools, it is strictly forbidden at Annapolis. But last week Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, the academy's superintendent, dismissed 13 midshipmen who had admitted to smoking pot in a dormitory room of Bancroft Hall. It was the second drug scandal to hit Annapolis: four middies were dismissed last June for using marijuana...
Harvard's Naval Science Department quickly responded to speculation that eligibility for admission to Navy ROTC will be similarly limited...
...Alvin R. Timm, associate professor of Naval Sciences, said "As far as I know, the Navy has not indicated to us that it is contemplating a move of this nature at the present...