Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While most of the testimony concerning Harris and his operation has been delivered in closed session, the fragmentary evidence that the Navy has made public indicates that the lieutenant neglected to post required plans for destroying classified data; never gave the order to destroy the ship's secret documents even when Pueblo came under attack; and failed to supervise or help in the destruction effort once it was initiated at an enlisted man's order...
...against the rebels, who have been booked for half a dozen kinds of conspiracy and are being held without bail. "Painful as the task may be," Clarke explained, "the university has the duty to see that academic freedom is preserved and that no one is permitted to threaten or destroy its functions." If tried and convicted, the rioters-28 of whom are not even students at Sir George Williams-could receive prison sentences stretching from five years to life...
...fantasies. In art, absurdity has changed form by radically altering the relationship among man, his pride and his gods. The dramatic structure that created the liberating pity and terror of the Oedipus plays, for example, only makes sense if one truly believes that there are gods who would destroy a man who grows too arrogant. Even the Freudian metaphors that have been used to give modern meaning to the ancient dramas are losing their force. The ultimate expression of absurdity would be to write a play or a novel about a man who kills his father, marries his mother...
Lieut. Stephen R. Harris, who was in charge of Pueblo's highly classified research spaces, was called on to explain his failure to destroy mounds of classified documents that ultimately fell into North Korean hands. Harris testified that he did not have enough weighted bags to sink the documents. When one man was wounded by machine-gun fire as he tried to toss one of the bags overboard, Harris decided to keep the men inside to try to burn the documents, The lack of time, the confusion, and the smoke from smoldering documents on the deck made his mission...
...would lie awake in bed, unable to sleep, his whole body shaking, because the thoughts flew through his mind in a frenzy. He could not stop them. Harvard had started his mind going, and he could not stop it. It was like HAL the computer, and it threatened to destroy...