Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the late Sen. Harry F. Byrd's Organization dominated the state's politics, with the only opposition coming from the small Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But within the last 10 years a band of moderates, consisting of representatives from Richmond, the urban areas of Northern Virginia, and Tidewater cities like Norfolk and Portsmouth has sprung up between the two extremes in the party...
...version of events-as it did when it approved the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. From his isolated position of a year ago, Fulbright is emerging as a leader of the Senate naysayers. The "Southern Barons" are with him because they are fundamentally opposed to presidential power, while the Northern liberals are with him because they oppose the war. It is a formidable combination...
...receivers that gave the ship "added capacity" to detect indications of possible attack. In testimony released at week's end, however, he admitted that, far from being routine, the electronic gear was designed to somehow "trigger" North Vietnamese radar so that the U.S. would know the frequencies of Northern radar installations. Then, in an amazing turnabout, the Navy disputed its chief, insisting that the equipment was indeed only standard gear...
With the new equipment-whatever it was-Maddox took up patrol, with orders never to venture closer than eight miles to the North Vietnamese mainland, or closer than four miles to any Northern islands. How close she did go, in fact, has not been disclosed. McNamara maintains that Hanoi never officially announced its claim to a twelve-mile boundary until Sept. 1, 1964, so that, as far as the U.S. was concerned, Maddox was always within international waters...
Shortly before Maddox arrived on station, South Vietnamese patrol boats (the night of July 30-31) shelled the Northern islands of Hon Me and Hon Nieu, staging points for Northern infiltration to the South. Did Maddox help the Southerners by diverting Northern attention from the attack? McNamara says no, but he acknowledges that the U.S. was aware that the islands would be bombarded...