Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home, the plight of Pueblo's crew was eloquently conveyed by a photo from North Korea of the ship's officers and crew parading with their hands up. Washington's impotence in a week-long waffling effort to obtain their release helped prompt a predictably irascible response from press, public and Congress. "A dastardly act of piracy!" cried Massachusetts Congressman William Bates, senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Utah's Republican Senator Wallace Bennett urged the U.S. to send "an armada steaming into Wonsan harbor, throw a tow rope around the Pueblo...
...President's first moves was to ask Moscow to put pressure on Pyongyang for the release of both the ship and her 83-man crew. Shrewdly, he did not use "the hot line" that proved so useful during the Israeli-Arab war last June. The Russians, who have only recently weaned North Korea from Peking's camp and at least part way into their own, are reluctant to do anything that might disturb that delicate relationship. Moreover, Moscow has endured severe criticism from Asia's Communist parties for its lack of militancy in combatting the U.S. presence...
...toilet paper around the South Pacific during World War II, the ship was on her first surveillance mission, gathering intelligence practically on the doorstep of Russia's Pacific fleet headquarters at Vladivostok. The spooking game is a lonely one at best, but as Pueblo's 83-man crew and the rest of the world learned last week, it can also be perilous...
...most sophisticated of the new submersibles, combining Aluminaut's size and ability to descend to great depths with Deep Diver's capability of discharging and retrieving underwater divers. The 40-ft., 50-ton craft can operate at a depth of 8,000 ft. with a crew of four and is designed to carry a Cachalot-type chamber that can accommodate four additional divers in its stern compartment. It uses spacecraftlike water-jet thrusters to hover in place and can tilt itself some 30° fore and aft and 10° sideways-useful for settling gently on an underwater...
...depths as great as 20,000 ft. and be equipped with a pressure chamber large enough to handle four divers. DSRV can be flown to the site of distressed submarines or other submersibles, where it can descend and mate with an escape hatch on the sub, allowing the stranded crew to come aboard...