Word: tonkin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More of an asset are 11,000 ethnic Chinese who made their way from Vietnamese fishing villages and islands to the Chinese coast in their own fishing boats. In Beihai, on the Tonkin Gulf, 7,000 refugees are fishing in the boats that brought them, selling part of their catch to the government. Three thousand others are living in a makeshift camp comprising huts furnished with wooden slat beds, mosquito netting, a small table and, sometimes, a kerosene lamp. Conditions are crowded, but no more so than in the refugee camps of Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong. "The people here...
...Africa, the Senate recently voted to endorse the "internal settlement" and the so-called "elections" engineered by Prime Minister lan Smith. Massachusetts Senator Paul E. Tsongas, in opposing the Sentate bill to send an observer team to those "elections," compared Senate recognition of the white-dominated regime to the Tonkin Gulf resolution of 1964, which gave Congressional support to the escalation of the Vietnam...
...that Garwood should be punished, I hope he has to go to the end of the line and wait his turn while we try Presidents, admirals and generals, along with noncoms, the CIA, civilians and politicians for all the lying, the cruelties, the burning of villages, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the bombing of Cambodia...
Meanwhile Soviet freighters at Haiphong were unloading resupplies of sophisticated hardware, including missiles and radar equipment. Soviet reconnaissance kept watch on the battlefronts with high-altitude sorties over the Gulf of Tonkin. A flotilla of 13 Soviet ships cruised the South China Sea, awaiting the arrival of the flagship of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the 16,000-ton cruiser Admiral Senyavin...
Henry Kissinger says about Iran: "The remedial measures that are needed in this crisis should receive bipartisan support. There will be opportunities later to discuss what went wrong." This reasoning led to the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Thanks for the reminder, Henry...