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...Republican dawks could not convincingly square their criticism of U.S. war policy with their insistence that they still support the war. Moreover, in blaming Johnson for U.S. involvement, they glossed over commitments made by his predecessors, including President Eisenhower, and pointedly neglected to mention Congress' 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution, in which Republicans and Democrats alike backed L.B.J. in whatever actions he deemed necessary...
...bombing of the DMZ marked an anniversary of sorts. Two years ago this month, the U.S. launched its aerial punishment of the Communist North with the retaliatory raid against Communist PT-boat installations in the Gulf of Tonkin. Six months later, it became a daily routine. The American campaign from the skies is running some 670 sorties a day over both North and South Viet Nam, rivaling that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood...
...conference, is "deplorable and repulsive." In a departure from its usual practice of turning prisoners over to South Viet Nam's forces, the U.S. made known that it held 19 North Vietnamese sailors captured last month when their torpedo boats attacked an American destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin-with the implication that they were hostages against a possible exchange of prisoners. From President Johnson came a proposal for a Red Cross-sponsored conference to bring about enforcement of the 1949 Geneva Convention, which specifically prohibits reprisals against prisoners...
...over North Viet Nam. Last week five U.S. planes were downed. One of them was an Air Force Phantom. Set afire by flak, the Phantom's two-man crew sent out a distress signal, then radioed that they were going to try to reach the Gulf of Tonkin...
Transceiver & Beeper. Pilots who are hit head for open water if they can. "Our chances of rescuing a pilot who falls in the Gulf of Tonkin are 99%," says the Third's commander, Colonel Arthur W. Beall, 50, of Orlando, Fla. Even over North Viet Nam itself, the Third estimates that it pulls out 60% of downed airmen, excluding those who fall directly into populous or heavily garrisoned zones. Rescues are effected by a combination of coordination, technology and guts. Each airman is equipped with a $2,400 survival kit containing, among other things, 400 ft. of nylon rope...