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...Rift. Harris also denies the widely held belief that there was ill feeling between him and Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd ("Pete") Bucher. The security officer claims that there never was any rift. He has nothing but praise for his commanding officer, whom he views as one of the most honest, responsible officers he has ever come across, a man he would feel "privileged to serve under in the future...
...Harris is disliked by his fellow officers and men of Pueblo, none of it shows during their off-duty hours. No one shuns the lieutenant at the barracks at North Island Naval Air Station, where the crew is quartered. Harris and his wife, Esther, see Bucher and his wife, Rose, socially "even more now than we did before the capture." Last week the four of them went to a concert and two nightclubs...
...thanks to Commander Bucher and his compassion for the lives...
Documents or Lives? Last week's hearings gave Pueblo's men the first opportunity to show their devotion to their skipper, Commander Lloyd ("Pete") Bucher. Without exception, they substantially corroborated Bucher's testimony that the ship could not have been defended. The hearings did not go as well for two other officers, however...
...should have been destroyed. Williams said that the entire crew should have been released from general quarters to carry the material into one nonessential compartment. There it could have been doused in gasoline and burned. An icy, self-assured officer, Williams made it clear that in his opinion Bucher and Harris had all the destruction equipment they needed. All that was missing was the ingenuity to do the job. And, he indicated, that task in his view was more important than saving sailors' lives...