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...them merchants and shopkeepers, have been hit unfairly hard in a crackdown on private enterprise that Hanoi launched last April. It says that in the past two months 133,000 Chinese have fled from "barbarous treatment" in Viet Nam. Last week two Chinese ships steamed into the Gulf of Tonkin to pick up Chinese at three Vietnamese ports...
...homeless etched on their faces, the wretched bands made their way out of Viet Nam across the Nanhsi River into China. Elsewhere along the Sino-Vietnamese border, near Tunghsing, 52 escapees were fired on by Hanoi's troops as they tried to flee across the Gulf of Tonkin in a flotilla of tiny fishing boats...
...Turner Joy and the USS Maddox, the two U.S. destroyers which invaded North Vietnamese waters in the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, were on NSA assignment...
...because he had sent his draft card in before August 1964--the date of the Tonkin Bay resolution considered the official beginning of the Vietnam War--Irons was not included in the clemency program, and for the next two years his case was tied up in Justice Department bureaucracy...
...solely on reporting, he is virtually peerless among contemporary journalists. In The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie, the longest and best piece in this collection, he gives an unforgettably tactile account of combat life on a U.S. aircraft carrier, a "heaving greasy skillet," in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1967. Those who have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish...