Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Emerging from a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Eugene McCarthy was besieged by reporters. What, they clamored, had Defense Secretary Robert McNamara said about the Gulf of Tonkin? "It was," deadpanned McCarthy, "a dark and moonless night." That climactic note, 3½ years after the encounter that overtly set the stage for the all-out U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, was one of the few certitudes about an incident that seems destined to rank in history with such hoary whodunits as the War of Jenkins...
That the Senators should care so intensely about these past events is a matter of note. What particularly rankles most members of the Foreign Relations Committee is the suspicion that they were not given all the facts about reported attacks on U.S. destroyers before approving the Golf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President broad authority to "prevent further aggression" in Southeast Asia. The Administration claims that resolution to be the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war on North Viet...
...Leathernecks, taking grim note of each setback, only pressed the enemy harder. Sharpshooters with high-powered scopes hunkered down behind battlements in "secure" sections of the Citadel wall, squeezing off occasional rounds at moving targets. As they waited out the weather for air cover or rested for their next push, the unshaven, dust-covered Marines sipped endless cups of powdered coffee, occasionally breaking out a liberated magnum of French champagne to accompany their C rations...
...this happy note, it behooves me to relate the story of one group as muted discouragement to those seniors perceiving in the Peace Corps a painless and sureproof escape from military combat in Vietnam...
Harvard's varsity swordsmen lost to Cornell, 15-12, last Saturday, but the match ended on a hopeful note for the Crimson's fencing future...