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...clash of interests in the mission was clear: the Americans were engaged in delicate negotiations to free the Pueblo's 82 crewmen, while Seoul, shaken by North Korea's escalating border raids was demanding pronouncements of American anger with the North Koreans. Vance avoided the verbal pyrotechnics which might have jeopardized the Pueblo talks, but at the same time the squawking South Koreans got essentially what they wanted. Vance's mere presence--and the 200 jet fighters the U.S. rushed to Korea--had the effect of renewing the blanket American commitment...
...Panmunjom, five closed meetings have yielded only one tangible gain: North Korea finally supplied the names of the sailor who died and the three who were injured during Pueblo's seizure.* As U.S. officials see it, Pyongyang may keep the U.S. dangling for a while, then demand an admission that Pueblo had violated its territorial waers, and an apology. Appearing on Meet the Press, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara conceded that although Pueblo was under strict orders to remain outside the twelve-mile limit, there was no way for Washington to be completely certain...
Holding Hands. But there was no retreat from the basic U.S. contention that Pueblo was in international waters when she was first accosted and when she was captured nearly 2½ hours later, and that North Korea, consequently, was guilty of having broken international law. In addition, Rusk pointed out that in 1965 and 1966 three Soviet spy ships had violated the U.S. three-mile limit-twice off Puerto Rico, once off San Pedro, Calif. "We didn't seize those vessels," said Rusk. "We simply required them to depart." As legal support for this "civilized practice among nations...
Because Seoul's prime concern is the infiltration of terrorists from the North, Washington's preoccupation with Pueblo caused friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful...
...dead sailor is Fireman Duane Hodges of Creswell, Ore. It is still not known with certainty how the casualties were suffered, but it has been established that Communist gunboats fired repeatedly across Pueblo's bow as she took evasive action, while eight MIGs buzzed the vessel and 75 more lay in wait at Wonsan to jump any rescuers. During this time, the crew attempted to destroy equipment and papers that might be valuable to the enemy...