Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flown home to the U.S. The episode will not end there. The crewmen, some of whom said they had been beaten and tortured by their captors, now face a formal court of inquiry that will raise some serious questions. Did the Pueblo at any time stray into North Korean waters? Should the ship have been surrendered without a fight? Why did the men sign "confessions" that they had spied...
...Dark Ages as 600 years of falling prices. The trick is to limit the price rises to about 2% a year or less, as was the case from 1960 through 1965. Over the last twelve months, however, consumer prices have jumped 4.3%, the greatest annual gain since the Korean War year of 1951. During October, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled, consumer prices rose at a frantic 7.2% annual rate. While the nation's output of goods and services climbed 8.7% to a record of $860 billion for the year, almost half of that was accounted...
...Korean armistice talks, which have dragged on through 275 sessions, have provided some classic examples of the use of punctilio to shatter a rival's composure. At one of the first meetings, North Korea's General Nam II provided himself with a particularly high chair and seated U.S. Admiral C. Tur ner Joy on a low one. Joy saw to it that the chairs were of equal height from then on. When the allies set out a small United Nations table flag, the North Koreans followed suit-only theirs was six inches taller. In this case, however...
Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...
...order, or at least for his own version of it. Few Americans can define precisely what they mean by the term, but the belief that law and order is being destroyed represents a trauma unmatched in intensity since the alarums generated by Joe McCarthy in the Korean era. The issue has virtually anesthetized the controversy over Viet Nam. It has distorted debate over pressing urban problems. It has perverted the presidential election, the closest thing in this secular republic to a sacred collective...