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Died. William Lindsay White, 73, editor and publisher of the Emporia (Kansas) Gazette and son of William Allen White, the Pulitzer-prizewinning "sage of Emporia"; of cancer; in Emporia. A World War II correspondent for 40 daily newspapers, White in 1942 wrote They Were Expendable, a novel about PT-boat combat in the Pacific that was made into a John Wayne movie. Returning to Emporia in 1944 after his father's death, he maintained the Gazette's reputation for lively editorials...
CONCEALMENT AT TONKIN. The North Vietnamese PT-boat attacks on the U.S. destroyer Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 were among the most pivotal and controversial events of the war?and the Johnson Administration clearly deceived the public about them. U.S. officials claimed to be unaware that South Vietnamese naval units had been covertly operating in the area shortly before the Maddox was fired upon. McNamara was asked at a press conference on Aug. 5, 1964: "Have there been any incidents that you know
...that the various Saigon governments, the non-Communist Laotian Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma, other U.S. allies and even the U.S. Congress were too often regarded as entities to be manipulated in order to accomplish U.S. foreign policy aims. Administration officials framed a Tonkin Gulf-style resolution long before the PT-boat attacks but failed to ask Congress for concurrence on what they were doing in Viet Nam. The State Department's Bundy writes of how Canada's J. Blair Seaborn, a member of the International Control Commission in Viet Nam, could be "revved" up to carry secret messages to Hanoi...
...Democratic side, affable, grey-haired Roy Archibald, 47, defeated Edward Keating, 42, former publisher of the New Left Ramparts magazine, by 15,069 votes to 8,881. Keating, who billed himself as the "real" peace candidate, stood fast for Proposition P. Archibald, a wartime PT-boat skipper who is a West Coast spokesman for the National Education Association and an able former mayor of San Mateo, voiced mild qualms over U.S. tactics in Viet Nam but supported the U.S. commitment...
...Ships. But the word did not reach all patrolling jet pilots and PT commanders, who expected to find only Israeli or Egyptian ships in the area. Since Liberty bears a slight resemblance to the Egyptian supply ship El Quseir, the Israeli commanders attacked. Liberty's U.S. flag was shot away during the air attack and the "holiday ensign" (7 ft. by 13 ft.) run up to replace it as the attackers bore in was obscured by flames and smoke. After their torpedo run, Israeli PT-boat commanders evidently realized their mistake and stopped astern of Liberty to signal...