AP - Response to '75 ship crisis focused on US prestige

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By ROBERT BURNS 2010-09-25T08:00:27ZWASHINGTON (AP) -- When the merchant ship Mayaguez and its American crew were seized by communist forces off the coast of Cambodia in 1975, the Ford administration was determined to craft a muscular response in hope of limiting damage to U.S. prestige, according to newly declassified documents published by the State Department....

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