Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deep into politics. While most continue their usual duties of meditating, reading the scriptures, teaching and begging, more and more of them are busy issuing political manifestoes, organizing riots, and working for the downfall of governments. From the Indian Ocean to the Sea of Japan, from the Irrawaddy to Tonkin Bay, bonzes are causing political waves whose final effect even they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western?and the Communist?role in the fate of Asia...
...jungle trails that thread through border areas all the way to massive air and sea bombardment of Hanoi and other targets in North Viet Nam. President Johnson is not enthusiastic about any of them. Even after he sent U.S. planes over North Viet Nam during last summer's Tonkin Gulf crisis, he declared: "We still seek no wider war." Signs are that he is sticking to that position...
...retaliation against North Viet Nam in the manner of the Tonkin Gulf incident remained to be seen. But on no account could the U.S. afford to stop its recon flights...
...Saigon were reported to be disturbed by his suggestion, and Khanh was told to forget such ideas and concentrate on winning the war in South Vietnam. But press reports indicate that the idea of an attack against Hanoi has become more palatable in the wake of the Gulf of Tonkin affair and the steady degeneration of military stability...
Bienhoa became all the more tempting to the Communists after the Tonkin Gulf clashes, when more than 30 big B57 jet bombers flew in from Pacific bases as stand-by weapons in case a long-range attack on North Viet Nam or even China-should be called...