Word: tonkin
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DIED. ROY JOHNSON, 93, U.S. Navy admiral who oversaw what the government said was retaliatory U.S. attacks against North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, an episode that escalated American involvement in Vietnam; in Virginia Beach, Va. Some scholars suggest that President Lyndon Johnson, under fire for not acting aggressively in Vietnam, invented the scenario of unprovoked attacks from North Vietnam to justify deeper U.S. engagement...
Branch's narrative is rich in historical ironies, none more telling than the gruesome discovery of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner on the same day that Lyndon Johnson used a dubious North Vietnamese attack in the Gulf of Tonkin as an excuse to enlarge a war he privately did not believe...
...have plunged deep into politics. While most continue their usual duties of meditating...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, [Buddhist monks] are causing political waves whose final effect they themselves cannot foresee but which are vitally affecting the Western--and the Communist--role in the fate of Asia... It was only 18 months ago that a 73-year-old Buddhist monk...sat down in...a Saigon street and...calmly...
...learned to cloak self-interest in moralargument and utilize rigidity to keep ambivalenceat bay," said Levine, who served as a navymidshipman in the Gulf of Tonkin...
...fall of 1970, the war finally seemed to be winding down. Congress had repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which had permitted the president to use military force in Vietnam for "police action...