Word: bucher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tenth anniversary of what Commander Lloyd Bucher calls his "footnote in history," but the former skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo doesn't believe in brooding. "I'm not a morose type of person. The sharp edges of Korea have eroded," says Bucher, 50, who spent eleven months in a North Korean prison after the capture of his ship. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1973, Bucher has done a bit of writing and lecturing. His topic on the lecture circuit: "What's Right with America." He has also taken up an old hobby, painting with watercolors...
...Anyone can be terrified if it is done the right way," said a retired Navy officer. The man should know. He is former Commander Lloyd ("Pete") Bucher, skipper of the U.S.S. Pueblo, the intelligence ship taken by North Koreans in 1968. Said Bucher, who had confessed to espionage activities but recanted after he was freed, "I signed things in North Korean captivity that I would not have signed unless I had been terrified for myself or for the people who were with...
Like many other Americans, Bucher has been wondering whether Patty Hearst could convincingly plead that she was psychologically coerced into bank robbery. Bucher does not presume to know what her state of mind was, he told TIME Correspondent David Lee, but he argues that "no one is immune. A person can be made to do damned near anything under threat if he is determined to remain alive...
Commander Lloyd M. Bucher...
Captain of the surveillance ship Pueblo when it was seized by the North Koreans in 1968, Commander Bucher is now a lecturer and freelance writer...