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Answer for the clue "Gulf of the South China Sea ", 6 letters:
tonkin

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Tonkin (, historically ), also spelled Tongkin , Tonquin or Tongking , is the northernmost part of Vietnam , south of China 's Yunnan and Guangxi Provinces, east of northern Laos , and west of the Gulf of Tonkin . "Tonkin" is a corruption of (東京), the name ...

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Tonkin Gulf Resolution, lest Hanoi had been misled by the interpretation Senator Fulbright had given to his fellow Democrats.

The questions had been asked of him down in sick bay by a jaygee who did only a cursory job, being as considerate as he could of a guy just hauled out of the Gulf of Tonkin.

On the very day that Lyndon Johnson was telling the nation in early August 1964 about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and announcing the bombing of North Vietnam, black and white activists were gathering near Philadelphia, Mississippi, at a memorial service for the three civil rights workers killed there that summer.

From Kadena, Okinawa, the planes would fly daily twelve-hour missions, codenamed Burning Candy and Combat Apple, to the Gulf of Tonkin.

Gulf of Tonkin seems right out of the Operation Northwoods playbook: "