Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOVE YOU and DO YOU LAUGH INSIDE ALL OVER. The prisoners would be assigned to two-or four-man rooms, unless they require intensive care. The men would be treated as gently and gingerly as possible. The casual treatment had been planned by a battery of experts. Even former Pueblo Commander Lloyd Bucher, a veteran of North Korean jails, was among those waiting at Clark Field...
...Pueblo was captured off North Korean shores and its crew held in a North Korean prison camp. No bombing was required to release the American servicemen. No massive military intervention was initiated to convince North Koreans of our strength and integrity. Apparently, after the Pueblo was seized, the presence of 50,000 American troops in South Korea did not persuade the North Korean communists to release the crew. Only across-the-table negotiations were required to release all the men within a year...
...Besides Portland and Baton Rouge, they include Boise, Idaho; Baker, Ore.; Seattle, Wash.; Birmingham; Pueblo, Colo., and Helena, Mont...
...from what is now northwestern Canada to the American Southwest. There they first encountered horses and sheep-both brought to the New World by Spanish conquistadors. While the Navajo men hunted and raided, the women learned weaving from the tribe's more peaceful neighbors-and frequent victims-the Pueblos. At first they copied Pueblo styles, but they soon developed their own. As early as 1795, Governor Fernando Chacón observed that "they work their wool with more delicacy and taste than the Spaniards...
...1830s, they began to weave more complex textiles known as "chief pattern blankets." To their traditional stripes they added squares, diamonds and zigzags. They worked proudly and boldly. "Even in early plain stripe blankets," say Berlant and Kahlenberg, "Navajo weaving had an aggressiveness that set it apart from its Pueblo model. [These blankets] have a force and color that is full and exuberant but always under control...