Word: ued
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bombing had taken place north of the 19th parallel as a "diversionary" move to protect the raiders. Senators who questioned the justice of bombing supply dumps, rail lines, truck depots, and Army barracks in the Hanoi area were thus neatly put in the position of opposing efforts to free U. S. prisoners...
...White House press aide Ronald Ziegler may have provided a clue to another, hidden reason for the raid when he said that the U. S. "would, of course, hold the leaders of North Vietnam personally responsible for any action taken against prisoners...
...pretext for the Son Tay raid was fragile. Cora Weiss, who returned from Hanoi with the news that six prisoners of war had died, has claimed that Laird twisted the information and that, in her opinion, the prisoners did not die of mistreatment. The U. S. can easily hoke up another "mistreatment" scare whenever it decides that the North Vietnamese need a dose of terror, and send in the kamikaze killers...
...U. S. C. won the regatta with 161 points to 183 for U. R. I. and 185 for Harvard. The other New England representative, Yale, was sixth with 260 points...
Harvard and Yale had been picked as the two New England colleges on the basis of this fall's performance and the fact that the two had not competed in the event in 15 years. Ironically U. R. I. did not enter until the Tuesday before when it discovered there was a last-minute opening...