Bucher condemns North Korea
CORONADO, Calif. (UPI) — The Pueblo skipper poured out his hatred for North Korea before the Navy Court of Inquiry.
"These people are just basically cruel and brutal savages," Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher said.
Yesterday the court's five admirals began questioning Bucher about the capture of his
espionage ship Jan. 23,1968 and the failure to complete destruction of its secret documents.
Bucher testifies in open court this morning. The court goes into secret session during the afternoon, summoning the 41-year-old Navy commander and Communications Technician 1/c Donald R. Peppard, 31, Bremerton, Wash.
Peppard had record-keeping
Apollo flight on schedule; Apollo 10 journey planned
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) — Apollo 9's pioneering moonship pilots looped earth with nothing more than weather to worry about today while a new attempt was made to line up Apollo 10 for a flight around the moon in May.
For James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart, it was all downhill toward an Atlantic Ocean landing Thursday morning. Stormy weather left only their splashdown time in doubt.
For Apollo 10 10 astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan, the work was just beginning.
Engineers at Cape Kennedy fixed a misfitting spacecraft shield that interrupted plans to move the 36-story Apollo 10 moon machine to the firing pad Monday. A new attempt was scheduled today.
Stafford, Cernan and Young are targeted for launch May 17 on a moon landing rehearsal within 50,000 feet of the forbidding lunar surface. Their way was cleared by the three pilots of Apollo 9 who proved that the nation's moon-lander works.
In doing it, McDivitt, Scott and Schweickart performed more major orbital maneuvers-17-than any other astronauts. Their last came Monday afternoon and it lined up their track for Thursday's homecoming.
One pesky problem turned up during the firing of the ship's big engine. A faulty fuel gauge triggered the ship's "master alarm." The bug was not serious, but engineers want to understand everything the space machine does and they were
N. Vietnam shuns secret U.S. talks
PARIS (UPI) North Vietnam served notice yesterday it is not interested in secret talks with the United States unless the Viet Cong also participates.
A Hanoi spokesman said his negotiating team in Paris was sticking to its policy rule that "the United States should make any peace offers in the four-way Paris conference on Vietnam."
Without further qualification, the spokesman's remarks were taken by diplomatic observers to mean that North Vietnam was not anxious to enter any talks from which the Viet Cong would be excluded.
The North Vietnamese official was commenting on a remark by U.S. officials Monday.
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The 10-day mission is the last earth orbital test flight in the moon program before the initial try for a manned landing with Apollo 11 in mid-July.
The recovery ship, the USS Guadalcanal, rolled about in 12 foot seas Monday and behind it, bobbing like a cork, was a tiny Soviet trawler identified by the Navy as a spy ship.
The heavy seas were the result of a wide band of storm weather over the Atlantic. But controllers Monday were not concerned.
Most of the remaining activity planned for the three astronauts is more photography. Among Monday's camera targets was a fiery volcano in Mexico.
duties in the Pueblo's electronic espionage unit. He was in charge of the personnel records of the ship's intelligence section—records the North Koreans captured intact.
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Struggling to keep his emotions in check, Bucher testified for about five hours Monday, mostly about his efforts to hold the Pueblo crew together during its 11-month captivity. He read many of his answers from a sheaf of typewritten notes, with his civilian attorney, E. Miles Harvey, asking the questions.
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indoctrination of North Koreans starts at childhood, and told of seeing movies in which children would say: "I want to kill an American when I grow up."
Bucher read the court a list of names of five officers and enlisted men who showed marked skill at outwitting the North Koreans and another list of men who showed "strong military leadership."
Bucher said the anti-American
The only Pueblo officer whose name did not appear on either list was Lt. Edward R. Murphy, 31, San Diego, Calif., Bucher's executive officer.
with devising the only practical escape plan worked out in captivity, although it was never used. Bucher was questioned earlier by the court on reports of personality clashes with Murphy.
Bucher did credit Murphy
Harvey's only question about the Pueblo's operations before her capture involved the .50 caliber machineguns mounted on the vessel shortly before she sailed on her last mission.
"It was impossible to fire them accurately," Bucher said, "unless you fired only a single shot at a time. The mounts were flimsy, and they vibrated when the firing began."
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