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Pueblo. An ABC drama about the North Korean seizure of the electronic intelligence ship, USS Pueblo. This repeat, starring Hal Holbrook, supposedly works on a dream-like structure, and since it's all based on the public record, that's probably the best way to do it. Ch. 5, 9 p.m. 2 hours...
...USS JOHN F. KENNEDY. a 183-ton attack carrier with a task force of 90 planes and a crew of 5,200, pulled into South Boston harbor last Tuesday for two days before departing on a nine-month cruise...
When he approached his draft board for permission to study for a year in Paris, the draft board refused and Kerry decided to enlist in the Navy. The Navy assigned him to the USS Gridley which between December 1966 and July 1968 saw four months of action off the Vietnam coast. In August through November, 1968, Kerry was trained to be the skipper of a patrol boat for Vietnamese rivers. For the next five months, until April of 1969, Kerry was the commanding Lieutenant of a patrol boat in the Mekong Delta. He was wounded slightly on three different occasions...
...American lives, but the American Empire is less secure today than when Johnson became its ruler. Even the Congressmen who still support the war are aware that something has gone drastically wrong, that America, for one reason or another, is in terrible trouble. While Johnson spoke, the USS Enterprise, the largest ship ever built, not far from home in a friendly sea, was blowing itself up with its own bombs...
...doors opened and the men got out, the spell was broken--for an instant. After the silence there was a brief squeal of joy from wives and children seeing the man they were looking for, but then there was abrupt silence again. The men wore blue denim jackets with "USS Pueblo" written in faded letters on the back. They had blue denim caps and all were pale. They walked quietly, most without smiling, down the ramp and into the crowd. A few hugged wives and children, but it wasn't a wild kissing-the-soil scene from...