Word: torpedos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson never sought a declaration of war against North Viet Nam, possibly because to do so might have provoked Peking and Moscow to respond in kind against South Viet Nam. Instead, after what was widely publicized as an attack on two U.S. destroyers by a group of North Vietnamese torpedo boats in 1964, he sought and got from Congress the Tonkin Gulf resolution, which gave him carte blanche to use U.S. forces however he chose in Viet Nam. The Senate voted two weeks ago to repeal the Tonkin Gulf resolution, but the Nixon Administration had never relied on it anyway...
...concrete, and dark. I hope darkness is good for the fish and solaces them with its successful simulation of the blackness of the deeps, for at times, especially when looking into the central pool (populated with rudimentary goldfish and long-shouted fellows who may have been Marlowe's "vile torpedo"), it seemed that the fish were a little too considerately shrouded in nostalgic midnight. The denizens were separated in numerous small tanks, in dramatic contrast to the Florida occanariums I had visited in which large and small, carnivorous and vegetarian, hostile and affable fish were promiscuously mixed in huge tanks...
...Tonkin Gulf incident in 1964 illustrates flaws not only in intelligence but also in Johnson's use of it. When challenged by headquarters, the commander of a two-destroyer U.S. naval patrol that was supposedly attacked at night by North Vietnamese torpedo boats replied hesitantly: "Review of action makes many reported contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects and overeager sonarman may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings." Washington insisted that it had independent confirmation of the attack, but it was a skinny reed on which Lyndon Johnson based the first U.S. air strikes...
Minimum of Pomp. It is unlikely that a single meeting will produce a sensational breakthrough in the tense and frigid relations between the two German states. But it is highly significant that the meeting is being held at all. Only last week, the East Germans seemed ready to torpedo the Willy-Willi meeting by insisting on impossible demands, most notably that Brandt travel to East Berlin without setting foot in West Berlin, the city he served as mayor for almost a decade. Refusing to take nein for an answer, Brandt suggested a meeting in any other city. To Bonn...
...usual, Israelis and Arabs differed on casualty claims (see PRESS). Egypt said that 50 Israelis had been killed or wounded on Shadwan. The Israelis said that they had lost three killed and six wounded, while killing 19 Egyptians and taking 62 prisoners; they added that two Egyptian torpedo boats-which normally carry 20 men each-had been sunk without a trace of survivors. In the 20-hour attack on the Jordanian badlands the Israelis reported killing five Al-Fatah commandos without suffering any casualties. In Amman, however, estimates of Israeli deaths ranged from twelve...