Word: tonkin
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...Snooping on each other is standard operating procedure for both the Russian and U.S. navies. The Russians scoop up garbage dumped from U.S. warships in search of intelligence clues, use trawlers loaded with electronic equipment off Guam and in the Tonkin Gulf to monitor movements of U.S. warplanes and warn their friends in Viet Nam of their approach. The U.S., on the other hand, routinely buzzes Russian cargo ships on the way to Viet Nam for a customs inspection of sorts, tracks Russian submarines in the Mediterranean and elsewhere until they pop to the surface. Last week, however, this sort...
...ordered Navy vessels to interdict coastal targets and local shipping in Operation Sea Dragon. Two weeks ago, President Johnson gave Navy jets the "go" signal to attack power plants within the city of Haiphong, previously a proscribed area. Last week, from attack carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin and from bases in Thailand and South Viet Nam, fighter-bombers blasted six new targets: a Haiphong factory that turns out 95% of the North's cement, the country's biggest rail-repair yard just 2.5 miles from the center of Hanoi, a power transformer seven miles from the capital...
Staunch Backs. About two-thirds of all Communist aid comes through North Viet Nam's principal port of Haiphong, free of any interference by U.S. Seventh Fleet warships patrolling the Gulf of Tonkin. Most of the Russians' oil and machinery land on Haiphong's always crowded docks; even the nearby Chinese ship most of their aid to Haiphong rather than send it overland. Since February, there has been a change in the pattern of traffic at Haiphong; fewer Chinese ships are arriving and, as if by agreement between the two countries, more Soviet ships are taking their...
...resolution, Fulbright claimed, would give the President the same sweeping powers as the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which authorized Johnson to use more force in Viet...
More important, Johnson's manipulation of the Tonkin Resolution has grievously undermined any role Congress could play in influencing his Vietnam decisions. This is the crux of the dispute -- Fulbright and the eight members of the committee quite logically feel that Johnson has been guilty of duplicity. And they have decided to punish him by withholding a diplomatic tool he has misused in the past...