indochina for 25: a 1964 congressional resolution that escalated the vietnam war is named for which armof the south china sea? gulf of tonkin for 50: to the southwest of indochina is which other gulf named for the country bordering malaysia and burma? gulf of thailand these devices work by supplying energy to a gain medium, such as a combination of helium and neon. what are these sources of very coherent light? lasers for 25: what form of information communication transmits data as laser pulses through long thin media? fiber optics for 50: what devices that produce coherent microwave beams rather than visible light were first built in 1954, a few years before the first laser? masers this king sent his wife edith to a nunnery during a dispute with edith's father godwin. who was this king known as the confessor? (saint) edward the confessor for 25: this first norman king of england claimed that edward promised him the throne. who won the battle of hastings and was crowned in 1066? william the conqueror for 50: edward was part of which royal house that traced descent to alfred the great an

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over taiwan, pressures from the joint chiefs of staff to help france by using nuclear weapons in indochina. war in the middle east, uprisings in eastern europe, and revolution in cuba. during the '60s, war in vietnam, another era of israeli war and confrontations with the soviets from berlin to cuba. in the '70s, soviet assertively in africa and invasion of afghanistan and yet another arab/israeli war and oil i'm barba goes. p '80s brought surrogate crises in lebanon and sfwer vengs in panama. and in the '90s we had the first gulf war, military action in the bull can, somalia, haiti, missile at tacts in iraq, and first al qaeda attacks on the united states. the point of recounting these historical examples is that americans, including all too often our leaders, regard international crises and military conflict as aberrations when, in fact, and sad to say, they are the norm. convinced time and again that a new era of tranquility is at hand, especially after major conflicts, presidents and congresses tend to believe they have a choice when it comes to the priority given national security. an

it was me and another quaker staff person and others from the indochina peace campaign, which we workedy closely with. we were in this culminating of what had been, for many of us, hourly teens or early 20's's or 30's. what had probably helped to define us in the civil rights movement had already had that. i added the peace corps on that. but then it was the vietnam experience, learning what it meant about what our country was in its ability to not understand history and what it was doing in the world, but also to learn folks who motivated had sees history and were determined that that history was .heirs we think of vietnam is a small country. it is of course 90 billion people -- 9 million people. it has never been a tiny country. laos is tiny. cambodia is tiny. aetnam always was and will be key focal point that tom hayden introduced us to in the course of our work. the key focal point for the politics of the region. internationally and regionally. to understand vietnam and our relationship to it, i think we go back to a phrase that ho chi minh used that we used a quote and maybe we und

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