Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events today certain startling resemblances to those times devoid of international order. A distinct strain of nasty, small-scale, almost personal violence among nations is emerging. The taking of hostages, for example, is becoming more and more popular: witness North Korea's use and abuse of the captured Pueblo crewmen or China's 19-month detention of Reuter's Correspondent Anthony Grey. There is also Ghana's jailing of the crewmen of two Soviet trawlers on suspicion of espionage. More recently, armed...
...testimony concerning Harris and his operation has been delivered in closed session, the fragmentary evidence that the Navy has made public indicates that the lieutenant neglected to post required plans for destroying classified data; never gave the order to destroy the ship's secret documents even when Pueblo came under attack; and failed to supervise or help in the destruction effort once it was initiated at an enlisted man's order...
...Rift. Harris also denies the widely held belief that there was ill feeling between him and Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd ("Pete") Bucher. The security officer claims that there never was any rift. He has nothing but praise for his commanding officer, whom he views as one of the most honest, responsible officers he has ever come across, a man he would feel "privileged to serve under in the future...
...Harris is disliked by his fellow officers and men of Pueblo, none of it shows during their off-duty hours. No one shuns the lieutenant at the barracks at North Island Naval Air Station, where the crew is quartered. Harris and his wife, Esther, see Bucher and his wife, Rose, socially "even more now than we did before the capture." Last week the four of them went to a concert and two nightclubs...
...martial. If what has been released on Harris' conduct were the full story, it seems impossible that he would not be accused of violating regulations. In fact, however, Harris is up for a promotion, which should come some time in July. Last week Bucher joined the rest of Pueblo's officers for a "wetting down" party in his honor...