Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials, has met 273 times at Panmunjom, right in the middle of the Demilitarized Zone set up by the truce. The meetings have always been bitter and hostile, but lately they have taken on an even harsher tone as the result of North Korea's seizure of the Pueblo and its increased attempts at infiltration into the South...
...seizing of the Pueblo prompted a report depicting North Korea as a nation devoted to peace and progress, while South Korea, which has "lived in the American style since 1953," was shown rife with corruption, unemployment and prostitution. On another news show, 'a commentator contemptuously suggested that to discourage bombing, the Viet Cong should put U.S. prisoners in factories and villages-because "Americans have a great deal of humanity for themselves...
Remember the Pueblo? Six months after North Korea seized the U.S. Navy intelligence vessel, Pueblo is still a fresh topic for 38,037 Army, Navy and Air Force reservists and National Guardsmen called to the colors since last January's crisis. Although tempers have cooled and negotiations for the release of the captive ship and its crew are dry-docked amid lengthy diplomatic wrangling, the reservists could be kept on active duty for as long as two years...
...that Pueblo's fate is dimming in public memory and Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...
...additional social services for the poor that Kennedy proposes, he shot back "You!" In Redondo Beach, Calif., he told an audience of aerospace workers: "We can slow down the race to the moon." At Oregon State University, in response to a student who favored "going in and getting the Pueblo crew out," Kennedy suggested: "It's not too late to enlist...