Word: covered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coronado, Calif., last week, Rear Admiral George L. Cassell, former assistant chief of staff for Pacific Fleet Operations, said that the Navy launched its rescue mission immediately after the capture. Two U.S. Navy destroyers, U.S.S. Truxton and U.S.S. Higbee, were ordered to sail to Wonsan. Under heavy air cover and backed up by a U.S. ultimatum to the North Koreans, Higbee was to dash into Wonsan harbor and escort Pueblo to safety. However, noted Cassell, the plan was vetoed by "higher authority...
...Cover. As serious as Williams' implications were, even more damaging was the fact that Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, then Commander of Naval Forces, Japan, had knowingly failed to provide available air cover for the vessel. The details were not made public, but when Pueblo's sister surveillance ship, U.S.S. Banner, had earlier cruised off North Korea, Admiral Johnson requested half a dozen or more Air Force F-105 fighters for air cover. The fighters were flown from Okinawa to South Korea, where they were kept on "strip alert," ready to go to Banner's aid. Inexplicably...
Looking tanned and relaxed in the taped appearance, Reagan explained that all increases next year are "fully necessary" to cover increases in the population and inflation. Then, announcing the $100 million income tax reduction, he beamed proudly: "I believe we have started what we hope will be a new trend in government finances...
Welcoming delegates to the Palestine National Council, which met in Cairo last week, Nasser promised the fedayeen "unlimited moral and material support, without reservations or conditions." The 105-member council, which considers itself a Parliament in exile for the Palestinians, elected as its chairman Yasser Arafat (TIME Cover, Dec. 13), spokesman for El Fatah, the largest fedayeen organization. The post makes him the Palestinians' official representative to Arab governments and the collection agent for their contributions to the guerrilla movement. Even so, Arafat's election did nothing to bridge the rift between El Fatah and the rival fedayeen...
...someone finally photographed reclusive Billionaire Howard Hughes and Wife Jean Peters? "Howard Hughes: We See You! We See you!" boasts the caption around the Kodak frames on Esquire's March cover and, indeed, the man and woman standing near a swimming pool look strikingly like Mr. and Mrs. Hughes. Spotting the camera, the angry man orders an aide to pursue the photographer...