Word: torpedo
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...assigning blame, others looked to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, who certainly was doing everything within his power to torpedo the proposed agreement. Inevitably, too, the Nixon-Kissinger relationship was scrutinized more earnestly than ever for frictions. It became a journalistic fashion to look for "light between" the President and his adviser. There was some encouragement for this activity from within the White House, notably from Haldeman, who considers himself an extension of Nixon and deeply resents Kissinger's high profile and the fact that Kissinger is not subordinate to him as is everyone else on the President...
Besides ARPA. BBN is also involved in acoustics research for the Navy, a North Cambridge Vietnam Committee spokesman said yesterday. The company helped develop the MK-48 torpedo, whose automatic sonar system was later used in the mines dropped into North Vietnamese harbors last spring, he added...
...U.S.S. Destroyers Maddox and Turner Joy report being attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats in Tonkin Gulf. (No damage done, and reports of attack may have been greatly exaggerated.) President Johnson orders a retaliatory raid against North Vietnamese gunboats and "supporting" facilities...
Other weapons on Sadat's shopping list were tanks ("It is not logical that we cross the desert on rubber tires"), torpedo boats and electronic equipment. Since the Russians refused to supply Egypt with these items, Sadat said, the new strategy was for Egypt to manufacture them. "We must possess the arms factories so my will may not be dictated by friends or non-friends...
...clear of combat, the naval war has been consistently overshadowed by American fighting on the ground and in the air. The major exception occurred in August 1964, when two American destroyers, the Maddox and the Turner Joy, reported that they had been attacked in the gulf by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. The incident, whose authenticity is still in doubt, led directly to passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which Lyndon Johnson used as authority for massive U.S. intervention in the Viet...