Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...review of 1968's mail, TIME'S letter writers found that it was largely concerned with the more serious news-Viet Nam, the capture of the Pueblo, politics at home and abroad, student protest, urban unrest, assassination. In other years, readers seemed more concerned with lighter stories. In 1967 the article that drew the most mail was the cover story about Playboy's Hugh Hefner; in 1968, it was the cover that reported on the violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago...
...author tries to excuse, in contrast, the massive violence the U.S. continues to inflict on the people of South-east Asia: because we now "seem to regret it" and "seem ashamed." Therefore we are somehow justified in assuming outrage at the unregretted "violence" of the North Koreans against the Pueblo...
...would suggest that such an attitude is hypocrisy. I would suggest that the real violence in the Pueblo affair was on the part of the United States. Apart from the crew members' confessions, the log of the Pueblo itself reportedly shows that the ship was violating North Korean territorial waters. But in any case, the Pueblo was a spy ship, and we know from history what aggressive and violent uses the U.S. makes of the "intelligence" it gathers about small nations: Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala...
...crew member killed in the capture of the Pueblo, there are indications that he too was a victim of the system he served: that he was destroyed in the crew's frantic efforts to destroy, before its capture, the massive espionage equipment the ship was carrying...
...means let us "Remember the Pueblo": let us remember it for its real meaning, as one bungled example of the American imperialist mission, a mission which entails the daily oppression of, and daily violence against the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Jack Stauder Instructor in Social Anthropology