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...Vance's return to Washington, the sixth secret parley was held with North Korea, but there still was no indication that Pyongyang was prepared to give the seamen their freedom at any time soon. In fact, the North was as bellicose as usual. It spent much of the week publicizing purported "confessions" by the entire crew admitting that Pueblo had "intruded deep" into North Korea's waters-a ploy apparently aimed at inducing the U.S. to issue an apology in exchange for the crewmen's return. And at week's end Pyongyang loudly claimed that...
...stars are big, they rock side by side like Galileo drunk and Kepler stoned and Copernicus thinking, like Vasco da Gama in his bunk in thought, the wind, the cleanness, the dark, the quiet blue light in the bridge where hand holds wheel and course is set. The sleeping seamen below...
Whew! Anyone can see that there are far too many scientists, navigators and Great Names in this sentence and far too few punctuation marks; even the sleeping seamen below would walk in their sleep for the nearest editor. The strange thing is that through the dreadful indiscipline of the prose, or perhaps because of it, the innocence of Kerouac is established beyond question. Alas, in literature, as in all other secular endeavors, innocence is not enough. The reader is left with the uneasy feeling that Kerouac's pilgrimage should have brought him to an understanding more profound than...
...simple reason that except for an occasional poacher's pelt, none has been available for more than half a century. Lustrous dark brown and noted for their durability and warmth, sea-otter skins were prized by Russian czars even above sable. Chinese mandarins heaped huge rewards on Siberian seamen daring enough to cross the Bering Strait and trap sea otters in the Aleutians. But two centuries of intensive hunting brought the near extinction of the species. By 1912, when Russia, Canada and Japan joined the U.S. in prohibiting further trapping, scarcely 500 sea otters remained...
...back up that arrogance, Kim commands an army of 367,000 men, an air force of 35,000 men and a navy 10,500 seamen strong. In addition, a people's militia of 1,200,000 men and women stands trained and ready to fight. But this muscle has been built at a tremendous cost to the welfare of North Koreans: the military takes some 30% of the nation's budget. With more than 650 planes in its air force, North Korea has an air capability far superior to anything North Viet Nam ever possessed, and North Korean...