Mayaguez – It’s Just as Difficult an Incident for Ford as It is to Pronounce
Capture of the SS Mayaguez
On May 12, 1975, a military swift boat commanded by the Khmer Rouge captured the U.S. container ship Mayaguez off the Cambodian coast.
In Praise of Gossip
Peter Berger in his classic essay “On the Obsolescence of the Concept of Honor,” demonstrated how societies where honor matters have a thick sociology while those with a thin social sphere are dominated by ideas of human “dignity.”
