Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crewmen of U.S.S. Pueblo were officially welcomed as heroes when they came home after eleven months as captives of Communist North Korea. At the same time, the Navy warned them that they would have to face a court of inquiry. Five admirals were named to investigate the surrender of the electronic spy ship and its crew's conduct in prison, where they signed much-publicized "confessions" to crimes against North Korea's sovereignty...
Could not Pueblo's crew have defended or at least scuttled their ship to keep its secrets out of Communist hands? The question bothered Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, the influential outgoing chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Finally last week, he raised the doubts that have bothered many Americans. "It is a very sad and tragic affair," he said. "We presented the Russians with hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of research in communications." Russell said that he wanted to see the orders issued to Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher. "These...
...some 200 people waiting at Miramar, the Pueblo crewmen weren't symbols of anything except a whole family; they were fathers and brothers and husbands, and their relatives wanted them back. The officers in charge of the homecoming at the base also put aside their concern for what the crew symbolized and concentrated on having a standard welcoming ceremony. Real red carpets were out on the runway, the officious M.P.'s were manning rope barricades to keep newsmen from swarming over the place where the men would arrive...
...crutches; out of the other plane came California's Governor Ronald Reagan and his family. A brief titter over Reagan subsided, and the crowd went back to its waiting. As the band broke into "76 Trombones," a voice came over the loudspeakers: "the planes bearing the men of the Pueblo are 40 miles away...
...opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from the end of World...