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Over and over, North Korea's propaganda organs trumpeted the news. A "heavily armed" American espionage ship, escorted by jet fighters and warships, had been sunk in the Yellow Sea. "Officers and men of the Korean Peoples' Army," said one report,"instantly sent to the bottom of the sea the enemy's armed spy ship, which intruded deep into the coastal waters." Scare headlines sprouted around the world, stirring memories of the North Korean capture of the U.S. electronic intelligence ship Pueblo in January 1968. Had a similar incident taken place...
Evidently not. In Seoul, South Korea's Defense Ministry reported that one of its patrol vessels had been captured, not sunk, at roughly the point cited by North Korea. The Seoul vessel had been on picket duty, assigned to warn South Korean fishermen when they strayed too close to Communist waters. A slow, unwieldy tub, armed only with a single .50-cal. machine gun, it would have been no match for its speedy, heavily armed North Korean captors. In Washington, the U.S. Navy flatly denied that any U.S. ships had been operating in the area...
...spite of all the flack, the SST program last week received a substantial boost when the House Appropriations Committee approved the $290 million requested for further development. Congress, reflecting on the millions already sunk into the aircraft, may well vote for continued, if reduced funding. But whether the SST will, in the words of Halaby, "turn the Atlantic into a river and the Pacific into a lake," or turn both into an ecological quagmire, remains to be seen. At about $40 million per plane (v. $23 million per jumbo jet), the U.S. SST has also left many people wondering whether...
...number of school districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living was bankrolled by contributions to his "Governor's Club." Last week, when Manatee school officials prepared to increase busing among the county...
...city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried or sunk to avoid trouble with the police...