Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bamboo Bottoms. More than 50,000 fishing junks ply South Viet Nam's bulging, 1,000-mile coastline. The ragged reach from the southern coast to the 17th parallel is a navigator's nightmare of coves and sandbars, ready to crack the keel of any U.S. destroyer that ventures within the ten-fathom curve...
...Japan, 50 miles off the North Korean coast, its electronic ears attuned to the radio and radar of the Communist half of the peninsula. Suddenly, two North Korean MIG-17 jet fighters flashed down. Though the U.S. plane was clearly over international waters and flying a course parallel to the Korean shore line, the Red jets opened fire with cannon and machine guns...
Should one simply choose the position that is fashionable with one's friends and accept the parallel set of hypocrisies that each position requires? Or is there some rational way of deciding what the United States should do? There would be no criteria for this decision if Vietnam were, as it often seems, simply an intellectual exercise in international affairs. One could accept the argument of one's choice, and quietly follow wherever its line led. But fortunately or unfortunately, Vietnam is real, and any policy proposed must meet the minimal requirement that its implementation be possible...
Specifically, and with President Johnson's approval, the conferees decided that there will be no diminution of U.S. air strikes north and south of the 17th parallel. Such strikes were carried out every day last week, with as many as 250 U.S. Air Force and carrier-based jets dropping everything from 750-lb. bombs to canisters packed with copies of President Johnson's recent speech expressing the U.S.'s willingness to enter into "unconditional discussions." By conservative estimate, U.S. and South Vietnamese flyers have knocked out 16 key bridges, badly damaged the principal north-south highway...
...demands in a clever, diplomatic subjunctive that could easily allow him to make withdrawal of U.S. forces an end -rather than a precondition-to negotiations. Did this suggest that the Communists were finally wincing under the increased application of U.S. air power both north and south of the 17th parallel...