Word: signs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom said they had been beaten and tortured by their captors, now face a formal court of inquiry that will raise some serious questions. Did the Pueblo at any time stray into North Korean waters? Should the ship have been surrendered without a fight? Why did the men sign "confessions" that they had spied...
...illegal activities, that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time intruded into territorial waters claimed by North Korea, and that we could not apologize for actions we did not believe took place." He added: "My signature will not and cannot alter the facts. I will sign the document to free the crew and only to free the crew...
Throughout the ordeal, said Bucher, "we were trying to tell you we'd been had." The most famous example: a North Korean photograph of the crew, with some of them visibly giving the photographer what was variously interpreted as the word "help" in sign language and the well-known U.S. sign of disrespect (TIME, Oct. 18). One crewman wrote his family that his captors were gentle people, the nicest he'd seen since his last visit to St. Elizabeth's-a U.S. mental hospital in Washington...
...peremptory summons from Moscow gave barely 24 hours' notice and demanded the strictest secrecy. Not even the flag flying over Hradcany Castle-a sign that the President is in residence-was permitted to be lowered. Most residents of Prague consequently assumed that all was normal. In fact, Czechoslovak's President Ludvik Svoboda and Party Chief Alexander Dubcek, along with three other leaders, had flown hurriedly to the Ukrainian city of Kiev for their fourth summit meeting with Soviet Communist Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev since the Russian invasion. Only after the session ended last week were Czechoslovaks informed that...
...happier results of the attempt to hold an open faculty meeting in Paine Hall is that the "moderate" positions on ROTC have been brought out for public view. Professor Stanley Hoffmann, who gave no sign at Paine Hall that he had other reservations about the abolition of ROTC than a fear of faculty backlash, now states that "I recognize the right of students to pursue military preparation as one extra-curicular activity among others." In other words, he would rather not have to deal with military men as colleagues, but they have a right to go about their business...