Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old, admitted that "I was not beat as bad as many." Nevertheless, X rays taken in San Diego showed that his jaw had been broken. One of the chief tormentors was a North Korean colonel nicknamed "The Bear," who worked over Hayes and the rest of the crew. "One day they treat you nice, and they are your big brothers," Hayes explained. "The next day, for no reason, it would be the opposite. Everyone was kept in terror, waiting to be beat. That was the worst part-there was nothing you could do but sit there and wait...
...crew came through their ordeal with surprisingly few psychic bruises. "They were trying to create doubts in our minds about our country and about our religion," says Hayes. Law was assured that the American people had forgotten Pueblo. When the freed crewmen were granted a brief New Year liberty from questioning by intelligence officers, only Bucher was restricted to a San Diego Naval hospital room, recuperating from nervous and physical exhaustion...
Happier Than Hell. Law was beaten on Dec. 12, only eleven days before the crew's release, when the Communists discovered they had been outwitted by their prisoners. When a North Korean photographer snapped eight grinning sailors last October, nobody noticed that three of the captives were wigwagging an internationally recognized signal of obscenity with their middle fingers...
...picture to advertise the home comforts of their jail. When a horse laugh heard around the world apprised them of their gaffe, the jailers turned on their hapless prisoners. Although all the men in the picture were tortured, they were elated by their feat. "About everybody in the crew was happier than hell," Law recounted, "because everybody could see what we were trying to do." Making fools of their captors and signaling their view of North Korea's crude propaganda had made the exercise worthwhile...
...Viet Cong, though it must have been a relief for them to have him go. Major James N. Rowe, a 1960 West Point graduate, was captured in the delta in October 1963 while serving as a Special Forces first lieutenant advising South Vietnamese forces. Last week the crew of an American helicopter operating over a clearing near Ca Mau city spotted a bearded figure clad in black pajamas and waving a mosquito net. It was Rowe. He had escaped from his captors with the unenviable distinction of having been a prisoner of the Viet Cong for five years...