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...Panmunjom, five closed meetings have yielded only one tangible gain: North Korea finally supplied the names of the sailor who died and the three who were injured during Pueblo's seizure.* As U.S. officials see it, Pyongyang may keep the U.S. dangling for a while, then demand an admission that Pueblo had violated its territorial waers, and an apology. Appearing on Meet the Press, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara conceded that although Pueblo was under strict orders to remain outside the twelve-mile limit, there was no way for Washington to be completely certain...
...dead sailor is Fireman Duane Hodges of Creswell, Ore. It is still not known with certainty how the casualties were suffered, but it has been established that Communist gunboats fired repeatedly across Pueblo's bow as she took evasive action, while eight MIGs buzzed the vessel and 75 more lay in wait at Wonsan to jump any rescuers. During this time, the crew attempted to destroy equipment and papers that might be valuable to the enemy...
...strategic value, Pueblo had no automatic "destruct" mechanism. As the Koreans swarmed aboard, U.S. Navymen feverishly set fire to the files, dumped documents, shredded the codes, and did their valiant best to wreck the electronic gear with axes, sledge hammers and hand grenades. In the process, apparently, one sailor's leg was blown off and three others were injured. According to a Defense Department official, Bucher's instructions "covered everything except being boarded...
...deserves an award just for keeping her "blind" eyes looking in the proper direction throughout. The real acting coup is Alan Arkin's. As a homocidal-sex maniac, Arkin is bone-chilling. His use of sunglasses, an eventual plot element, helps prevent associating him with the lovable sailor of The Russians Are Coming...
...Navy Department rewarded that promise by giving him command of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which will become the world's only operational battleship when it is recommissioned this April. Last week the Navy Department revealed that Alexander had exercised the most ignominious prerogative open to a blue-water sailor: he formally requested that he be relieved of his command of the New Jersey. The request was promptly granted, and he was given shore duty...