Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Koreans are disturbed because they have been left out of secret U.S.-North Korean talks at Panmunjom on the fate of the Pueblo's 82 surviving crewmen. Moreover, they are worried that the Viet Nam war, in which they have nearly 50,000 troops, has so taxed U.S. capabilities that Washington would be unwilling to come to Seoul's aid in case of a Communist attack...
...held with North Korea, but there still was no indication that Pyongyang was prepared to give the seamen their freedom at any time soon. In fact, the North was as bellicose as usual. It spent much of the week publicizing purported "confessions" by the entire crew admitting that Pueblo had "intruded deep" into North Korea's waters-a ploy apparently aimed at inducing the U.S. to issue an apology in exchange for the crewmen's return. And at week's end Pyongyang loudly claimed that U.S. "armed boats" had invaded North Korea's western coastal waters...
...Mood Back Home While congressional Republicans journeyed home last week to deliver Lincoln's Birthday speches and mend fences, a clutch of Democrats also took advantage of the traditional recess to gauge their constituents' mood in the wake of the Pueblo incident and the ene my's new aggressiveness in Viet...
...whose father, the late Representative Bill Green, ran the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee before him, said he found "a hunger for peace in Viet Nam." Yet virtually none of his constituents favored U.S. withdrawal, and many complained that Johnson had not acted firmly enough in seeking return of the Pueblo...
...flotilla of 16 Soviet cruisers and missile frigates has in the past few weeks shouldered its way between the coast of North Korea and the U.S. Navy task force that was sent into the area to add some muscle to U.S. diplomatic demands for the return of the Pueblo and its crew. Soviet destroyers have also closely shadowed the carrier Enterprise, which withdrew because of North Korean protests shortly before the Soviet navy's approach. The Soviet presence checkmates the U.S. pressure on North Korea and gives the Kremlin a local pressure point without having to resort to nuclear threats...