Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barry Goldwater or any other Republican campaigner said about a greater military effort in Viet Nam, Lyndon may well have persuaded Hanoi and Peking that he was a pushover for peace at any price. Not even his quick retaliation for Red attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964 could erase that impression. Only when Viet Cong guerrillas raided U.S. barracks at Pleiku and Qui Nhon last February did the President, with the election safely behind him, begin in earnest to intensify the U.S. role in the war. And even after he did, a chorus...
...Paria (The Untouchable), wrote a bitter, anti-French comedy called Le Dragon de Bambou. In 1918 he rented a suit and trotted out to Versailles to badger Woodrow Wilson for the "liberation" of "Viet Nam"-the ancient name for the region that all Frenchmen divided into partes tres: Tonkin China, Annam and Cochin China. His pleas were lost in the shuffle of more immediate history, and he never got to see Wilson. But the farsighted Bolsheviks in Moscow saw promise in the skinny, ardent Annamite...
Rice & Rifles. The main reason is U.S. escalation of the war in neighboring Viet Nam. U.S. jets, striking out of Thailand, Danang and the Gulf of Tonkin at supply routes from the north, have kept the Pathet Lao pinned down. Since North Viet Nam considers Laos a sideshow anyhow, the Laotian Communists recently have had short shrift in supplies from Hanoi...
...Thunderchiefs can get. The MIGs made a fast firing pass, then swooshed off to the north and escaped in the mist. One Thunderchief took 20-mm. cannon hits in its hydraulic system, the other in its engine. Both limped some 20 miles until they got over the Gulf of Tonkin, where the pilots bailed out. Major Frank E. Bennett drowned, and, after a 48-hour search, Captain James A. Magnusson was listed as missing...
Buzzing with Rumors.With 27,500 Americans already in Viet Nam-a 50% increase since the Tonkin Gulf crisis of August, the U.S. may well expand that force still further. After Army Chief of Staff General Harold K. Johnson wound up an eight-day tour of Viet Nam, Saigon began buzzing with rumors that a beefed-up U.S. Army division of nearly 20,000 men might be sent over to guard key bases. The fact that 6,000 marines were moved out of Hawaii last week to replace the 3,500 who landed in Viet Nam might indicate further leatherneck reinforcements...