http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pueblo/ en-us Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:44:00 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076795/posts When Ralph McClintock boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968, he was planning for a three-week mission. Instead, the 24-year-old communications technician became a prisoner of war, a pawn in the Cold War sideshow that began with North Korea's capture of the Navy spy ship and imprisonment of its 82 crew members. Forty years later, as McClintock and the other survivors of the Pueblo prepare for a reunion, he's proud of his service and the bonds he made with his crew mates during 11 months in captivity. But the pride is tinged with bitterness. "We were treated as heroes when... AP, via the Rutland Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076795/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 18:44:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076427/posts 40 Years After Capture, USS Pueblo Crew Reunites JERICHO, Vt. — Ralph McClintock expected only a three-week mission when he boarded the USS Pueblo in January 1968. Instead, he and his shipmates became pawns in a Cold War sideshow when North Korea captured the Navy spy ship and imprisoned its 82 crew members. Some still suffer the physical effects of torture or malnutrition they suffered in 11 months of captivity. McClintock is proud of his service as a 24-year-old communications technician and the bonds he made with his crew mates, but that pride is tinged with bitterness. "We were treated... FOX/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076427/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 02:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999150/posts Perched on a lonesome bluff above the dusty San Pedro River, about 30 miles east of Tucson, the ancient stone ruin archaeologists call the Davis Ranch Site doesn’t seem to fit in. Staring back from the opposite bank, the tumbled walls of Reeve Ruin are just as surprising. Some 700 years ago, as part of a vast migration, a people called the Anasazi, driven by God knows what, wandered from the north to form settlements like these, stamping the land with their own unique style. “Salado polychrome,” says a visiting archaeologist turning over a shard of broken pottery. Reddish on... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999150/posts#comment Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:46:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958321/posts American Forces Network radio chattered in the background as Pat Kell fed and dressed her four children in Japan the morning of Jan. 23, 1968.A month earlier, her husband – Chief Petty Officer James Kell – volunteered for a secret mission aboard a World War II cargo ship newly refitted with communications gear. The vessel deployed from Yokosuka, Japan, after a voyage from San Diego.Through the broadcast buzz, Pat Kell thought she heard the name of her husband's ship: Pueblo.That can't be right, she thought. None of the crew members' families had known where the ship was going. In fact, few... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958321/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:14:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958121/posts North Korea tells U.S. to remember the Pueblo 2 hours, 20 minutes ago North Korea marked the anniversary on Wednesday of one of its rare Cold War victories over the United States by saying a U.S. spy ship it seized 40 years ago served as a lesson to show it can repel an invasion. It is the paranoid state's latest dig at its long-time foe and which it still labels as an arch enemy despite Washington's pledge to provide aid and better diplomatic standing to Pyongyang in a disarmament deal. "(The Pueblo) is historical evidence proving before the whole world... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958121/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817613/posts Richardson, in North Korea, tours USS Pueblo Tuesday, April 10, 2007 By FOSTER KLUG ASSOCIATED PRESS PYONGYANG, North Korea -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday toured a U.S. warship captured by North Korea in the 1960s that is now used to inspire anti-American sentiment in the reclusive communist regime. The North Korean colonel who served as Richardson's guide smiled as he told the governor the ship was an example of continued U.S. aggression toward his country. Richardson and his traveling companion, former Veteran Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, were then shown bullet holes circled in red paint and a... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817613/posts#comment Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:19:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815542/posts New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson may have just ended his fledgling campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, shipwrecked on the rocky coast of North Korea. Although Richardson's trip to North Korea was authorized by the White House, how it played out must have come to a surprise to White House advisors, let alone to Richardson himself. The former energy secretary and popular New Mexico Democrat had gone to the hermit kingdom to claim the remains of six U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War. He was also expected to deliver a tough message from Washington, that the United States expected... News Max http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815542/posts#comment Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:24:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810066/posts N.Korea Told to Return Captured U.S. Navy Boat Former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan asked North Korea to return the USS Pueblo to the U.S. during his visit to Pyongyang early March, a member of his entourage said Thursday. North Korea hijacked the U.S. Navy ship off the coast of Wonsan in January 1968, claiming it had crossed into North Korean waters. According to the aide, after looking at the Pueblo, which is on display near the Taedong River, the former prime minister told officials of the North’s Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation that the return of the captured ship... Chosun Ilbo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810066/posts#comment Sun, 1 Apr 2007 05:27:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806382/posts /begin my translation High school graduates from Pyongchon District, Pyongyang, attending a pledge rally in front of USS Pueblo on display at Taedong River (From N. Korea's Central TV / Yonhap) /end my translation Daily NK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806382/posts#comment Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:38:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666174/posts Kevin Moloney for The New York TimesMelissa Bechhoefer, registrar of the Colorado Historical Society, with a sword and scabbard that belonged to Zebulon Montgomery Pike. Kevin Moloney for The New York TimesIn spiffying up to attract tourism, Pueblo, Colo., settled on the idea of a River Walk to anchor downtown. Much of the attraction, along the Arkansas River, offers themes related to Pike’s Southwestern expedition. PUEBLO, Colo., July 13 — All over tourist country, there’s an invisible borderline where people stop and shut their wallets, as if halted by a sign: nothing beyond here to see. snip... Now Pueblo... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666174/posts#comment Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:02:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645372/posts The principal of a Los Angeles charter elementary school said Wednesday that neither he nor his staff ordered the assault of a KABC-AM radio reporter last week. Sandy Wells, the reporter working for KABC's morning show, "McIntyre in the Morning," was allegedly assaulted outside the school last week by a man demanding his audio tape. Station officials said Wells was also followed as he drove away. Rumors of Aguilar's involvement stemmed from an on-air caller to KABC's morning show, claiming he witnessed Aguilar order the attack, according to producer John Phillips. Police are investigating the incident. "I know for a... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645372/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jun 2006 04:43:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563406/posts An international incident 38 years ago this month remains shrouded in mystery. On the bitterly cold morning of Jan. 23, 1968, an American intelligence vessel, USS Pueblo, was operating in international waters off the coast of North Korea. It was surrounded by four North Korean patrol boats, with two MiG aircraft flying overhead. The boats ordered the Pueblo to stop and let the North Koreans board. The order was refused. The Pueblo headed further out to sea. The North Korean boats immediately opened fire. Armed with only a 50-caliber gun secured from the freezing temperatures by a tarp, the Pueblo... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563406/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:53:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479094/posts WASHINGTON -- Negotiations to eliminate North Korea's nuclear weapons remain in limbo, but the North Koreans are giving hints they might be ready to end another long-lingering problem with the United States by returning the captured spy ship USS Pueblo. They are setting an unlikely condition, though, for the return, considering hostile U.S.-North Korean relations: A visit by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or another top- level American official. "It would be a gesture, but somebody needs to make a gesture," said Donald Gregg, former U.S. ambassador to South Korea who brought home the offer after a mid-August trip... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479094/posts#comment Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:53:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344507/posts Just heard on KOA radio that a Cessna Citation crashed on approach to Pueblo Colorado, killing seven. They also mentioned that it was registered to Circuit City in Richmond VA. No other details at this time. It is bad weather along the front range today. This morning there was freezing rain/snow at my house near Colorado Springs, about 45 miles north of Pueblo. KOA radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1344507/posts#comment Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:49:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285669/posts Here (by URL listed below and by direct link, above) is the North Korean TV news in prime time for November 20, 2004 (local time). It contains an interesting, short report of a minor African delegation paying a visit that day to the seized U.S.S. Pueblo , captured by Communist North Korea in 1968 and now relocated by the enemy to a tourist spot on the Taedong River in the capital city of Pyongyang. Foreigners in North Korea are often taken to this American ship to see the damage to the craft from the attack, the interior of the... NORTH KOREAN TV (November 20, 2004) Video Stream http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1285669/posts#comment Mon, 22 Nov 2004 04:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228059/posts PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) - A group of 600 Democrats crowded the 4H Auditorium at the State Fairgrounds Friday hoping to see for themselves whether presidential candidate John Kerry's wife was as outspoken and sharp-tongued as some have described her. Teresa Heinz Kerry delivered for her supporters when she talked back to a heckler who implied her husband's a flip-flopper. During a question and answer session, a young man demanded to know why Kerry voted to give Bush authority to attack Iraq but voted against an $87 billion appropriation bill to support the war effort there. "Is that the kind of... 9 News - Denver http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1228059/posts#comment Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987105/posts Public Not At Risk, Depot Commander Says The Pueblo Chemical Depot is investigating a mustard gas leak at the facility. The low-level leak was detected Sept. 18, according to a spokeswoman for the storage facility near Pueblo, Colo. The leak was detected during a routine igloo inspection, where the nerve gas is stored in 105mm rounds. A charcoal filter unit was placed on the vent of the igloo in an effort to clean the air. The filer will remain on the igloo until the leak is isolated. The community is not at risk, according to Lt. Col. John A Becker,... The Denver Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/987105/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2003 16:39:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/832194/posts Farmers may lose water to minnowWed, Jan. 29, 2003 9:27 AM ETBy the Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE (AP) Indian pueblos along the Rio Grande and others who use the river's water could face a very dry year if the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a federal judge's decision on the silvery minnow, a Bureau of Reclamation official said Tuesday. The bureau made public the federal government's draft biological assessment for 2003 for the middle Rio Grande, where the tiny endangered fish lives. U.S. District Judge James Parker last year said the bureau and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife should... Associated Press thru Weather.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/832194/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jan 2003 04:00:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819290/posts The Pueblo City Clerk is in the process of verifying thousands of signatures from those who don't agree with the city's new smoking ordinance. Attorneys for the group against the ban turned in more than 10,000 signatures on Wednesday. If the signatures are determined to be valid, the smoking back will be suspended and the measure will go back to city council. Council could then repeal the ban, modify it or send it to the people for a vote. The attorney for the anti-smoking group, Joe Losavio is hoping for the vote, "If you say 'well there are many more... KOAA.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/819290/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jan 2003 02:49:42 GMT