Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sense of consternation. Here were 83 Americans and a ship crammed to the gunwales with electronic hardware, hostages to one of the Communist world's most belligerent and intransigent regimes (see THE WORLD). Though the Navy bravely tried to make light of the loss of the equipment aboard Pueblo, arguing that the Russians have comparable gear, few electronics experts were so blase. "This equipment is so esoteric that it verges on the unattainable," said one U.S. authority, who considers Pueblo's capture "a really major catastrophe." In purely political terms, it was also a crisis of the first...
...several other escort vessels. Six or seven other warships put out of Yokosuka later in the week, presumably bound for the same area. Shadowing Enterprise, sometimes at the dangerously close range of 800 yards, was the Soviet trawler Gidrolog, a gadget-crammed spy ship of the same genre as Pueblo...
...than 40 sorties around the port, and U.S. listening posts intercepted a steady stream of chatter from Pyongyang to the pilots: "Where is the Enterprise? What is the position of Enterprise?" Either the leviathan was making North Korea nervous, or Pyongyang, in the wake of its success at swiping Pueblo, was thinking of bigger things...
About eight hours after Pueblo was towed into Wonsan, the Pentagon released word of her capture. In Yokosuka, the pregnant wife of Pueblo's executive officer, Lieut. Edward R. Murphy, heard about it from a neighbor, who heard it from her radio. As for the wounded crewmen, the Pentagon could not say which of Pueblo's complement of six officers, 75 enlisted men and two civilian hydrographers had been injured...
Even if aircraft had been available, however, Washington officials question whether it would have been wise to send them to Pueblo's aid. The hijack was evidently well planned, and it was quite possible that an ambush awaited any rescue force; at Wonsan perched 50 to 100 MIGS, and South Korean intelligence spotted two additional Communist squadrons flying near the DMZ about the time of Pueblo's capture. Further, in towing Pueblo into Wonsan, the Koreans sailed in close formation, which would have made it difficult for a strafing plane to avoid killing Americans. Once in Wonsan...