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Hardening Line. In the Pueblo affair, despite a general willingness to give diplomacy a chance to work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
...Johnson also had a rare chance to meet with the leaders of the five other Viet Nam war allies, some of them for the first time since the Manila Conference 14 months ago. He conferred with South Viet Nam's President Thieu, South Korea's President Chung Hee Park, Thailand's Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and New Zealand's Prime Minister Keith Holyoake. He also saw British Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
Last week a three-judge tribunal of the Seoul District Criminal Court delivered its verdicts. It found 31 of the 34 defendants guilty. Two were sentenced to death: Kyu Myung Chung, 39, a Frankfurt University physicist, and Yong Su Cho, 34, a professor of French, both of whom supplied Pyongyang with military and political information about South Korea. Four others were condemned to life imprisonment, including Composer Yun, and the rest given prison terms from one to 15 years, which they may appeal...
...Boston Symphony and the Japan Philharmonic are in the second year of an exchange agreement whereby two string players from each orchestra swap places for a season. And the promising youngsters keep coming: co-winner of this year's prestigious Leventritt Award was Korean Violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and second spot in the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow went to Japanese Violinist Masuko Ushioda...