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...looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity"--and memories of the red loess in the mountains of Siam. The whole thing gets to be a little diffuse...
...mention" the stock to Mitsui & Co., a U.S. affiliate of a Japanese trading house, but adds rather lamely that "the trust sold it, I didn't. They could have refused the sale." In any case, Mitsui did buy, at $5 a share, 100,000 shares of Siam Kraft Paper Co., a Thailand concern that Kearns founded. At the time (1972), Proxmire estimates, the stock was worth no more than $1.75. While Kearns was head of the Ex-Im Bank, which makes low-cost loans to foreign firms so that they can buy American exports, the bank approved 37 separate...
...that some military equipment needed improving, that perhaps the placement of the U.S. forces in the Pacific should be changed. The success of the action provided more than a soothing balm to the American psyche and a lift for U.S. allies. Most important, the incident in the Gulf of Siam was a clear statement, in this uncertain time, of the firm intentions of the President...
...brigade from the 3rd Marine Division, based on Okinawa. In addition, they directed six ships already in the Pacific?the destroyer escort Har old E. Holt, guided missile destroyer Henry B. Wilson and the aircraft carrier Coral Sea, accompanied by three destroyer escorts?to head for the Gulf of Siam. Finally, the Pentagon ordered three Navy P3 Orion anti-submarine reconnaissance planes at the U.S. Air Force Base at Utapao, Thailand, to keep watch over the Mayaguez. Because of clouds and darkness, the planes often...
...nightfall on the Gulf of Siam, U.S. forces were massing for the assault. The amphibious brigade from the 3rd Marine Division had been flown aboard an Air Force C-141 transport from Okinawa to Utapao, over the protests of the Thai government, which had been trying to head off trouble with the neighboring Cambodians by refusing the U.S. permission to launch attacks from Thailand. Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj of Thailand ordered the Marines to leave by Thursday morning or face unspecified "serious and damaging" circumstances. Meanwhile, the Holt and the Wilson had closed in on Koh Tang; the Coral...