Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT, WORLD? (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Dean Jones hosts the premiere of a weekly satirical review that takes pokes at people, places, times, trends and morals. Mission Impossible's Martin Landau and Barbara Bain are guest stars...
THROUGH the long, tense hours of the naval investigation into the capture of U.S.S. Pueblo, one conclusion has become dismally clear: the Navy was totally unprepared to protect Pueblo on a mission the hazards of which had been shrugged off at every level of command...
...witness before the court of inquiry last week was Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, former commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Japan, who had operational responsibility for Pueblo's mission. Most of Johnson's testimony was classified and presented behind closed doors. Later, however, he delivered a "sanitized" version in open court...
...plans had an almost surrealistic quality, as if Pueblo were on a paper mission while the military played an elaborate game. Air Force jets were kept "on call" on Okinawa, 900 air miles from Wonsan, North Korea. However, it would have taken 21 hours to scramble the fighters and fly them to Pueblo's aid. Four fighter-bombers were supposed to be ready in South Korea, but they were armed with nuclear warheads and useless for such a mission. Air Force jets stationed in Japan were unavailable because a status-of-forces agreement prevented their use in any combat...
...More than 1100 of these young men (ROTC graduates each year) will become career officers to furnish the hardcore leadership for the future. It is very evident that the present mission of ROTC is the production of officers, not merely to expose students to military training." (Memorandum...