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Response to '75 ship crisis focused on US prestige

By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer – Sat Sep 25, 9:32 am ET WASHINGTON – 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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