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363-04771.pdf
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Digital Object Identifier
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363-04771
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Title
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Crisis Leaves Saigon Unruffled
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Description
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Article published in the New York Herald Tribune about Vietnamese reactions to the Gulf of Tonkin incident, page 2
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Date
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1964, Sep. 20
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Subject
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Vietnam (Republic); Tonkin, Gulf of; Public opinion; Tonkin Gulf Incidents, 1964
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Location
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Saigon, South Vietnam
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Coordinates
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10.8231; 106.6311
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Container
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B4, F6
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Format
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newspaper clippings
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Collection Number
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MS 363
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Collection Title
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Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
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Creator
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Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Copyright Information
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These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
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Publisher
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Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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Language
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English
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extracted text
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,_,., ..
p.,~;. Crisis Leaves Saigon Unruffled
shooting Friday was primarily Washington's concern, not
Saigon's.
SAIGON.
"We have not received very
The latest shooting incident In the Gulf of Tonkin clear details yet," the Premier
l!!ft fe:w visible marks in said. "But we aire not surSf>uth Viet Nam's capital prised, beca,use the Commuyesterday-unlike the crisis nists have plans and they
that· first broke there just go on with the plans they
have drawn up."
seven weeks ago.
Although some reports said
He added that he would
American military forces were try to find out more later in
supposed to be on a new spe- the day when he flew to Da
cial alert, the streets of Saigon Nang, 370 miles north of the
were !!Ven more crowded than capital, on a previously
usual, arid Americans seemed scheduled visit to victims of
to be moving about just as a recent typhoon. A U. S .
freely as the Vietnamese, who 7th Fleet spokesman said bewere preparing for today's fore the latest shooting incelebration of the annual cident that a task force was
moon festival.
operating about HfO miles
The propaganda mills in from Da Nang on the South
Communist China and North China Sea.
Viet Nam cranked up, pre- .. Da Nang, only 80 miles
dictably enough, but neither south of the North Vietnashowed any sign of taking mese frontier, is a major base
action against the United :for the American F-101 VooStates, and the invasion panic doos and F-102 Delta Dag ..:
that swept through South gers flown in during the AuViet Nam after last month's gust crisis when everyone
Gulf of Tonkin incidents did was worried about Communot materialize this time.
nist retaliation for the U .. S.
air strikes. The other big
IN HANOI
concentration o! the superIn Hanoi, North Vietnamese sonic jets is at Bien Hoa,
only 10 miles northeast· of ·
Xuan Thuy accused the U. S. Saigon.
·
of trumping up the incident
9 CLASHES
Friday as part of an "imperialist scheme o! aggression."
The internal Communist
He warned that Washington threat was underlined yester"must bear full responsibility day by a South Vietnamese
!or all serious consequences." military spokesman's report
In Peking, Gen. Lo Ji-Ching that government troops had
observed that his government clashed with Viet Cong guer"has long ago clearly declared rillas in tnine separate actions
that any aggression against during the day-evidence of
the Democratic Republic o! a big step-up in insurgent acViet Nam means aggression tiivty.
against the People's Republic
Government casualties-24
of China."
dead, 24 wounded and 30
Gen. Lo, who is both a Dep- missing-fr a
outnumbered
uty Premier and the Army Viet Congo losses-five killed
Chief of Staff, added that and nine captured-according
"the Chinese people know how to the spokesman.
to deal with the war maniThree Americans were reacs." But he made no prom- ported wounded in fighting
ises of concrete support :for yesterday Friday in the guerHanoi and no direct threats rilla-infested area around Ben
against Washington.
Cat, less than 25 miles north
In South Viet Nam the :nap of Saigon. An American milisurrounding the shooting in tary spokesman said 316 afir
the Gulf of Tonkin may actu- sorties had been flown in supally have strengthened slight- port of government troopsly the hand of Maj. Gen. also a sharp increase.
Nguyen Khanh at home. The
The Viet Cong have rePremier seemed more con- sumed their pressure on the
cerned about his country's Khanh regime during the
running border dispute with past week after alull during
Cambodia than · about the the coup-and-counter-coup
incident at sea.
maneuvering among top army
Gen. Khanh, who put the officers. Nine Americans have
country under virtual mar- been wounded in combat since
tial law after the U. S. cliIn the , capital yesterday,
maxed last month's crisis in however, Amercian officials
the Gulf of Tonkin with air worked their customary Satstrikes against North Viet urday morning and tok their
Nam, said he thought the usual Saturday afternoon off.
By Beverly Deepe
A spokesman pointed out.that
A Special Correspondent
few of them knew much about
the Gulf of Tokin incident
because the 7th Fleet chain
of command does not go
through Saigon.
A statement by Le Trang,
North Viet Nam's press and
information chief, explicitly
declared that "no battleship
of any kind from hi§ country
was in the Gulf of Tonkin
when the shootinf took place
Frida. He said the U. S. had
manufactured the incident to
"pave the way for launching
fresh military attacks" on
North Viet Nam.
Hanoi protested the incident in a message to the
Soviet Union and Britain, cochairmen of the 1954 Geneva
conference that dismembered
Indo-Chlna. Foreign Minister Thuy urged "energetic
and timely measures . . . to
check the U. S. l!Cheme :for
renewed war acts against the
Democratic Republic of Viet
Nam."
A Hanoi message to the
International Control Commission established to police.
the 1954 Geneva agreements
requested an extraordinary
meeting of Canadian, Polish
and British representatives
to look into the "despicable.
schemes and acts of provocation" of the U. S.
An earlier Hanoi broadcast said Washington had
concocted the Gulf of Tonkin incident "to bolster up
the morale of their henchmen in South Viet Nam"
and "to secure more political
assets to cope with the Republican party in the present
Presidential campaign."
