Word: pueblos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MATTER OF ACCOUNTABILITY: THE TRUE STORY OF THE PUEBLO AFFAIR by Trevor Armbrister. 408 pages. Coward-McCann...
...double standard. A Long Island housewife last year found herself in court for protesting the war by flying her flag upside down (the international signal of distress). No action was taken when an American Legion post near by flew its flag upside down to protest Government inaction over the Pueblo's capture. Last month Michael Sauter, 20, was arrested in Topeka for displaying on his car a flag decal with an overlaid peace symbol. The charges were dropped after his lawyer argued that 1) a decal is not a flag, and 2) Topeka police cars bear decals on which...
Even in this position, Moorer weathered his share of storms. His tenure saw the capture of the Pueblo, the downing of an EC-121 reconnaissance plane off North Korea and tremendous cost overruns in the Navy's shipbuilding program. Through all this, Moorer pushed for an expanded Navy to counter growing Soviet naval strength...
...Korean Peoples' Army," said one report,"instantly sent to the bottom of the sea the enemy's armed spy ship, which intruded deep into the coastal waters." Scare headlines sprouted around the world, stirring memories of the North Korean capture of the U.S. electronic intelligence ship Pueblo in January 1968. Had a similar incident taken place...
There is little novelty these days in attacking the Pentagon. The war in Viet Nam, the cover-up of the massacre at My Lai, the service club scandals, the inability to answer North Korea's flea-bite seizure of the Pueblo-all these things and more have combined to bring the American military establishment into the noisiest disesteem since before World War II. Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, a liberal Democrat-but no doctrinaire foe of the armed services -has won national attention with his disclosures about military overspending beyond original estimates for weapons procurement, notably...