Word: pueblos
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...unwittingly taken in. It is also possible that their own sympathies colored their reports. Still, their testimony on the whole seemed credible, suggesting that the Americans in North Vietnamese prison camps are not treated with deliberate cruelty, compared with the Korean War or the horrors endured by the captive Pueblo crew. Thus there is hope that the Americans in North Vietnamese prison camps will endure their bitter lot until a negotiated settlement of the war finally brings them home...
...Pueblo incident, the defects in communications were evident even before the vessel sailed. Pueblo's electronic-spying mission was assigned a minimum-risk factor. Neither the Pacific Fleet Command in Hawaii nor the regional command in Japan was aware that Radio Pyongyang had already threatened retaliation for what it called "provocative" acts in the Sea of Japan off North Korea's east coast...
Warning. Thirteen days before Pueblo sailed from Japan on her mission, the National Security Agency, the Government's giant cryptography and communications intelligence center, urged that more "protective measures" be taken for the ship. The recommendation never got past Commander-in-Chief Pacific headquarters. Another copy of the message, addressed to the Chief of Naval Operations, was lost in the Pentagon. Once Pueblo's plight was known, it took Navy officials in Japan more than 40 minutes to reach the Fifth Air Force headquarters in Japan by telephone. The two commands had failed to establish emergency communication procedures...
...event, it was impossible for Fifth Air Force jets stationed on Okinawa to reach U.S.S. Pueblo without refueling in South Korea, an operation that would have taken too long for them to reach the stricken ship in time to help. No fighter planes were in readiness in South Korea to aid U.S.S. Pueblo, a precaution exercised in an earlier spy-ship mission off North Korea...
...Americans read of millionaires who pay no taxes. The clergymen whom they value lead open-housing demonstrations. They dream of sending their children to college, but the universities have become battlegrounds for black militants and white rad icals. Their bumper stickers suggest an apprehensive kind of jingoism (REMEMBER THE PUEBLO), and the decal Amer ican flags on their car windows bespeak a defensive patri otism (THESE COLORS DO NOT RUN). Patriotism as they see it is assaulted everywhere. "You're trying to teach your chil dren one set of values and every element of life around them shows...