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...BUCHER: MY STORY by Commander Lloyd M. Bucher with Mark Rascovich. 447 pages. Doubleday...
...faithfully is to run from nature's law. It is to give one's own life, and the lives of those in one's charge, a lower value than duty, no matter how vague or irrational the mandate may be in a particular crisis. Commander Lloyd Bucher chose nature and common sense when his test came. Rather than let his crew be slaughtered for no other purpose than to maintain Navy custom, he chose to surrender U.S.S. Pueblo to the six North Korean vessels that had him encircled and hopelessly outgunned...
...Dead, Bucher could have been a hero in the eyes of the Navy, the most tradition conscious of the armed services. Alive, he became a problem. He is the personification of a tragedy of errors that would seem incredible in even the wildest of antiwar satires. And, though he has remained in the Navy and professes his loyalty and affection for the service, he will not be silent...
...went through almost exactly the same ritual a year ago to spring Commander Lloyd Bucher and the 81 other surviving Pueblo crewmen. However laudable the end, the routine is disquieting: a nation's word ought not to be solemnly pledged and then disavowed. Yet the technique has the virtue of saving face for both sides, and suggests that the U.S. may be acquiring the sophistication of Oriental civilizations. There may be a touch of this in President Nixon, who combines rhetoric about success in Viet Nam with steady U.S. troop withdrawals...
What remains to be seen is whether Bucher and Harris, both career officers, will have any future in the service. Officials insist that they can think of no reason why they should not. Yet few old hands in Washington or the Navy think the two have very good long-term prospects. For the time being, Bucher and Harris received relatively unglamorous assignments-but it was said that they had requested them. Bucher will attend a management course in Monterey, Calif., leading to a master's degree; Harris will assume duties at Naval Security headquarters in Washington. The Navy hopes...