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...stopover, the first such visit by American military ships to the People's Republic since the Communist takeover in 1949. The port call had been delayed by more than a year, following Peking's unexpected statement that no nuclear-armed vessels would be permitted to dock. But the Chinese apparently had second thoughts after reports began to circulate last summer that North Korea had granted Soviet vessels calling rights at the port of Nampo, just 340 miles across the | Yellow Sea. As Peking and Washington basked in last week's goodwill, the U.S. maintained its policy of refusing...
...Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty." Several months later, according to McCloskey, Robertson and five other officers who had been pulled off the Breckinridge with him were reassigned to Korea...
When led from the dock, the Jordanian smiled and raised two fingers in a "V" for victory sign...
...long dock. The balconies. The flag...
...wife, a school teacher, and two children. Army service, 1965 to 1968. Flight school on the G.I. Bill. Joined the San Antonio police department and stayed four years. Missed home. "It's mostly the people here. It's more relaxed." Took a job as a longshoreman on the dock at Lake Charles. Then the work, much of it loading rice, went slack. Cretini switched to shrimping. So did scores of other unemployed Louisianans. At last look, the Lake Charles' unemployment rate was 14.8%, more than double the national average. A local official estimates that there are 2,000 commercial shrimpers...