Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMMITTEE anticipated revived activity following the lean years between Eisenhower and the Gulf of Tonkin. HUAC thrives on domestic fear, just the kind produced by "leftists" picketing for peace in Vietnam of demonstrating for black power. So far, though, the big Red scare has not developed, and the noise from HUAC has been minimal...
...Fact Remains. All three judges disagreed-and each had different reasons. Chief Judge Robert E. Quinn was satisfied that the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, passed by Congress in August 1964, was equivalent to a declaration of war. "The language," he said, "clearly indicates that Congress recognized and declared that the Gulf of Tonkin attack precipitated a state of armed conflict." Judge Paul J. Kilday did not think the Tonkin resolution constituted a declaration of war, but he did think that "abundant authority exists to make clear that a condition of war between states may exist without a formal declaration...
...third judge, Homer Ferguson, thought the Tonkin resolution totally beside the point. "Regardless of the resolution," he said, "the fact remains that we are at war." It is enough to know that hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen are in combat in Viet Nam. Just how many G.I.s make a war he did not say. Presumably, the number in 1964, when Anderson committed his crime, was more than enough...
Wandering Wraith. Ho was born in French Indo-China, not far from the Gulf of Tonkin, 78 years ago. His father was a celebrated scholar and minor official-following the mandarin tradition-in the imperial puppet government. He was fired because the French suspected him of "patriotic" sympathies. Embittered, he used to declare that "being a mandarin is the ultimate form of slavery." He went on to eke out an existence as a nomadic marketplace storyteller, scribe and sometime bonesetter, but he somehow had contrived to send his son to schools in Hue and Saigon...
...tempo if not the direction of the talks may have been presaged by the arrival in Paris of Le Duc Tho, who ranks seventh in the North's all-powerful Communist Politburo and is the most important party theoretician after Ho Chi Minh himself. Born in Tonkin, Tho helped Ho found the Indo-Chinese Communist Party in 1929, served long sentences at penal labor under the French, and lived for many years in the South. Harddriving, ascetic and tough, Tho is believed to have purged the party in South Viet Nam of some 2,500 non-Communist nationalists...