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...Radio Hanoi charge followed an announcement in Saigon that the U. S. Seventh Fleet had sent a second carrier steaming into the Tonkin Gulf and had doubled its strike capability off the coast of North Vietnam...
...liberal. Stevens is the first Republican ever to serve as a Senator from Alaska. He was appointed to fill the remainder of the term left following the death of Senator E. L. Bartlett. In a state which produced Ernest Gruening, one of the two Senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, Kay is given a good chance of ousting Stevens...
...past decade. The most astounding of these discussions concerns America's role in the Laotian guerrilla war. Those bombers which were pulled out of North Vietnam in 1968 and not used in the South were instead sent to Laos, where massive depopulation bombing had begun even before the fabricated Tonkin Gulf episode in August 1964. As Chomsky tells it, most of northern Laos is now a network of caves and underground tunnels where hundreds of thousands of farmers and peasants have been driven by American bombardment. The idea-as you might have guessed-is to make it as difficult...
...Bert Yaffe was chairman of the October 15th Moratorium in Massachusetts and is now running for Congress in the Tenth District. Yaffe has been fighting hard for peace for a long time. He firmly opposed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 and became deeply involved in the anti-war movement in 1965. He raised funds for anti-war candidate Thomas Boylston Adams in 1966 and was Tenth District coordinator and on the Massachusetts steering committee for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He is also a businessman who unionized his own plant (with the Textile Workers Union of America) where there...
...Riegle has been an outspoken critic of the war in Viet Nam. He and Congressman Paul N. McCloskey Jr. were the first members of Congress to propose the repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. Their position has since been adopted by the Administration, and repeal of the resolution has since been favorably acted upon by the Senate...