When notified of the President's decision to take military action, Congressman Robert Drinan and Senator Gaylord Nelson opposed it.
When notified of the President's decision to take military action, Congressman Robert Drinan and Senator Gaylord Nelson opposed it. The next year, a General Accounting Office report on this incident showed that the U.S. knew of Chinese intervention on their behalf. Nevertheless, action was taken against Tang Island, and forty-one Americans died in the action, even though the thirty-nine sailors involved had already been freed. FTP, name this incident that occurred three weeks after the fall of Saigon in 1975 when the Cambodians briefly held the namesake American cargo ship.
When notified of the President's decision to take military action, Congressman Robert Drinan and Senator Gaylord Nelson opposed it.
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