Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than academic interest, since the events of those days set off a chain reaction, beginning with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in Congress, which has sent more than a million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction based on interviews with officers and enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner...
...rounds, but it was strictly a defensive tactic." It could also have been a malfunction on the radar screen. Aircraft from the carriers Ticonderoga and Constellation were overhead by this time and saw nothing much either. However, four seamen aboard Turner Joy and one man aboard Maddox did report seeing silhouettes of a ship, and sailors said they saw a searchlight stab momentarily through the darkness. There were also sonar reports of as many as 22 torpedoes, though critics of the Pentagon pointed out that a sonarman may have mistaken the sound made by the engine of his vessel...
...Agency for International Development. The AID administrator's dejection-if not his figure of speech-was understandable. In the past month, three separate cases of "irregularities," resulting in the suspension or resignation of five officials, have plagued the agency. At the same time, a State Department report on AID'S operations catalogued at least $6.5 million worth of waste and inefficiency in 30 countries from Afghanistan to Viet...
...report, compiled by State Department Inspector General J. K. Mansfield, told of an argosy of luxuries and trivia bestowed under AID financing: a $2,111 car for the Japanese embassy in Santo Domingo, a stereophonic hi-fi system for the El Salvador embassy, wine glasses and $10,000 worth of pastel-colored bidets for the Dominican Republic...
...Stalin knew only that Yakov had been shot, but had no official explanation of where or how. In 1945, U.S. and British intelligence teams found in Berlin the German dossier on Yakov, which consists of a letter by SS Commander Heinrich Himmler confirming Yakov's death, an autopsy report, depositions from guards and fellow prisoners, and pictures of the young man stretched out on the camp fence...