Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bearing the President, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and General Creighton Abrams to South Viet Nam, Nixon's big Boeing soared directly o^eff Saigon's Independence Palace-normally completely off limits to aircraft-on its approach to Tan Son Nhut airbase. It was Nixon's first visit to Viet Nam as President (he had been there five times before). He insisted on going to Saigon rather than Cam Ranh Bay, the huge U.S. supply base that was Lyndon Johnson's touchdown spot on two trips to South Viet Nam. "Cam Ranh Bay doesn't count...
...meeting with the troops. "They make tears come to your eyes," he said. "There's a strength out there. If the political leadership can equal these men, we're going to bring this war to an end on the right basis, and before long." Of the South Vietnamese, he said: "They are going to make it." Saigon, Nixon observed, was not going to become "Ho Chi Minh City...
...GEORGE McGOVERN. The South Dakota Senator seems considerably less than galvanic, but in his brief bid for the nomination last summer as a stand-in for Robert Kennedy, it was clear that he was gifted with more outspoken political courage than either Muskie or Ted Kennedy. (He was one of the first Senators, for one thing, to oppose the Viet Nam war-in 1963.) He might yet find an impressive constituency among the young, this time as the substitute for another Kennedy. His appeal to the middle and right of the party, however, would almost certainly be small...
...event, it was impossible for Fifth Air Force jets stationed on Okinawa to reach U.S.S. Pueblo without refueling in South Korea, an operation that would have taken too long for them to reach the stricken ship in time to help. No fighter planes were in readiness in South Korea to aid U.S.S. Pueblo, a precaution exercised in an earlier spy-ship mission off North Korea...
...miles away, the best close-up portrait man has ever had of Mars. At week's end, an identical twin named Mariner 7 moved into position for similar electronic observations. Mariner 6 aimed its close-up cameras on Martian equatorial regions, Mariner 7 at the planet's south polar area. Together they were programmed to photograph about 20% of the Martian surface...