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...involving the South Vietnamese vessels and the North Vietnamese?" His reply: "No, none that I know of." Yet the secret Pentagon study declares that "at midnight on July 30, South Vietnamese naval commandos under General Westmoreland's command staged an amphibious raid on the North Vietnamese islands of Hon Me and Hon Ngu in the Gulf of Tonkin. Apparently [the North Vietnamese boats that attacked the Maddox] had mistaken Maddox for a South Vietnamese escort vessel." The rapidity of U.S. air reprisals?within twelve hours of Washington's receipt of the news?argued that the U.S. had been positioned...
Since 1964, however, the U.S. has increasingly had to share its mare nostrum with a constantly growing Russian fleet. Today the two forces are very nearly equal. The Sixth Fleet, commanded by Vice Admiral Isaac C. Kidd Jr. (who will shortly move upward to become head of the Naval Material Command and be replaced by Vice Admiral Gerald E. Miller), consists of 45 ships, including three aircraft carriers, along with four submarines, 200 planes and 25,000 men. Under Vice Admiral V.N. Leonenkov, the Soviet force, an arm of the Black Sea fleet, consists of 40 to 60 ships...
...publishers that the paper needed a wider range of opinions than its columnists provided. Publisher Arthur O. ("Punch") Sulzberger took the occasion of a price hike from 100 to 150 last fall to introduce Op-Ed, thereby giving readers a small bonus for their nickel. While Oakes has overall command, operating responsibility for the page rests with Harrison Salisbury. Last July, Salisbury started soliciting contributions for the page, offering a modest $150 fee. He leaned on big names at the start to attract attention, but consistently stressed "the interest and importance of an idea" regardless of an author...
Some of the manifestations there could command places in William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. R.D. Cronquist, for instance, was a carpenter until last July, dabbling on the side in ministerial work. Now the mustachioed, goateed Cronquist is the pastor of the Grace Fellowship Chapel, a windowless, corrugated shed...
...advanced-model Pratt & Whitney engine. An influential group of Congressmen has urged the Pentagon to scrap plans for any new fighters and concentrate instead on updating McDonnell-Douglas' widely acclaimed F-4 Phantom. At one point last week, reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken, the Navy's command was certain that Packard had decided to scuttle...