Word: pueblo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gnawed at apples and oranges but balked at drinking Kool-Aid until Miller downed some to show that it was not poison. Nevertheless, the men on the Mayaguez feared that they might be beheaded or shot-or, at a minimum, held hostage for years like the crew of the Pueblo, captured by the North Koreans. The greatest immediate danger came from American airmen who were bombing and strafing Cambodian gunboats in an effort to prevent the crew from being taken to the mainland. Unfortunately, the crew had been transferred to one of those boats. Some were wounded by shrapnel...
...most applicable similarity between the S.S. Mayaguez and the U.S.S. Pueblo is that protection of both ships was an inherent responsibility of our Government. There is no question in my mind that a revitalization of pride at home and confidence among our friends round the world are among the immediate benefits...
Captain of the surveillance ship Pueblo when it was seized by the North Koreans in 1968, Commander Bucher is now a lecturer and freelance writer...
...Held for eleven months, the 82 surviving men of the Pueblo were savagely tortured and forced to sign false confessions that they had been spying for the CIA. To free the crew, the U.S. had to apologize to the North Koreans for "grave acts of espionage," though the U.S. Government almost immediately repudiated the statement...
...White House aide: "The aim was for our action to be read by North Korean President Kim II Sung as well as by the Cambodians." Moreover, Ford and Kissinger were insistent that the U.S. would not repeat its failure to use force to recover the U.S. Navy surveillance ship Pueblo from North Korea in 1968. Said a Defense Department official rhetorically: "What if the Cambodians used the Mayaguez crew the way that the North Koreans used the Pueblo crew?* I'd hate to think what would happen to the remaining American position in Asia. Yet, that was a possibility...