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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reading Others' Radar. If there had been some question at the outset whether the Pueblo might have violated North Korean waters, there was no such doubt about the EC-121. Its crew had orders to stay at least 50 nautical miles off the North Korean coast. Some wreckage from the aircraft turned up 85 miles at sea. Nixon insisted that American, Russian and North Korean radar had all shown the EC-121 clearly over international waters. His remark revealed for the first time that the U.S. has electronic gadgets that can read what other nations' radars are reporting...
...Early that evening, however, radio and television announcers spat out bulletins on what they called North Korea's "brilliant battle success," and the birthday cheer was replaced by the all-too-familiar shouts of "Liberate the South!" and "Down with U.S. Imperialism!" During Hisano's two-week stay, he visited a nursery for preschool children in the capital and was astonished to hear them chanting hate-America slogans. Their drawings, pasted on the wall, featured burning American planes and tanks...
...applauded in relief when the Harvard stadium meeting was adjourned. As the crowd moved to the exits, a few undergraduates started tossing a football around. Others quietly fashioned paper planes from Old Mole. With a track meet scheduled for the next morning, someone asked students over a loudspeaker to stay off the field lest they tear up the cinders-and they did. As they trooped back across the Charles to the houses, there was the appealing prospect of a weekend of rest to remedy onrushing exhaustion. Psychologist Jerome Bruner evoked the mood. "None of us is blameless and none...
...friends, squeezing their arms, kissing them, urging them not to feel bad. In New York, it was Ethel who made most of the funeral arrangements, planning the seating, working out the prayer card, suggesting roles for Leonard Bernstein and Andy Williams, even finding places for the children to stay. She told Archbishop (now Cardinal-designate) Terence Cooke that she accepted Bobby's death as God's will, and therefore she wanted the ceremony to be as affirmative and optimistic as possible...
...seemed more plausible. Why not cast off painful associations and turn away from Washington politics? Why not, in fact, spend some time in international travel and socializing? Ethel would not have it. "No one ever gave a thought to leaving Hickory Hill," she says. "This is where we'll stay...