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...major accident at sea this year. On Jan. 14, a series of explosions aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise killed 28 men as the giant ship conducted training exercises near Hawaii. Last month, fire killed four men aboard U.S.S. King, a guided missile frigate stationed in the Tonkin Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Disaster by Moonlight | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: By Any Other Name | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Law: What Is a War? | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Law: What Is a War? | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Historical Ho | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

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