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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1968
Page
1
Moscow reports UPI states U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson again failed to obtain Kremlin assistance in securing the release of the USS Pueblo and its 83 crew members. The dispatch notes Washington seeking Soviet pressure to resolve the standoff.
In a Tokyo report, Peking Radio claimed the USS Pueblo violated the Korean armistice by entering North Korean waters while on a spy mission. A Soviet official skeptical of intervention said Moscow will likely reject any intercession request.
North Korea's Rodong Shinmoon and a radio broadcast demanded punishment for the 83 crew members of the captured USS Pueblo. Allied officials reported a large U.S. Navy task force near North Korea and reinforcements of jet fighters in South Korea. North Korea also bolstered its MIG fighter force. A U.S. spokesman said the Enterprise task force was in a ready position off the North Korean port of Wonsan. South Korea reported up to 100 additional jets, including F4 Phantoms and F105 Thunderchiefs, arriving to bolster defense.
President Johnson calls up 14 787 Air National Guard and reservists for duty as families say goodbye. Many wives and mothers face unpaid bills and disrupted wedding plans while servicemen prepare at bases, with mixed reactions from resignation to resolve as the Pueblo incident looms.
Plans to convert the Adirondack Forest Preserve into a national park are near dead after a sharp Kilborne report. The study warns such a park would ruin the preserve’s wild character, devastate local tax bases, disrupt tourism and hunting, and transfer control of water resources away from New York.
A trace of snow fell overnight with a 1 am low of 10 degrees. It will be warmer tonight and tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies. Tonight’s low 15 to 20 degrees and tomorrow’s high near 30. Snow chance about 20 percent. Winds southeast 5 to 12 mph tonight and south-southwesterly 10 to mph tomorrow.
Protestants in Glasgow cried down with popery and disrupted Archbishop James Scanlan's speech at the Church of Scotland cathedral. About 1,200 demonstrators sang hymns outside the Liverpool Anglican cathedral. Police intervened as officials faced the crowd. no arrests were made and officers left after talks with demonstrators.
A small humor item notes that the only man who finished all his work by Friday was Robinson Crusoe, a playful quip on common work pace.
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg asked the Security Council to meet at 3 30 p m to press for the immediate release of the USS Pueblo and its 83 crew. He sought the session after talks with President Johnson and raised questions about inviting North Korea as an interested party amid longstanding U N representation issues.
Two US Marines, Cpl. Nelson of Donna City and Cpl. Roha, fled through jungle after 200 North Vietnamese attacked their outpost near Ba Nhan Ba Ngan Jan. 7. Nelson, reported dead then found safe, described slipping past guards barefoot before reaching allied positions. the escape was disclosed at a news conference.
Communist forces killed 21 Americans and wounded 137 in attacks across South Vietnam in the 36 hours before a Tet cease-fire. Targets included two U.S. division bases, airfields, a patrol base, and a Marine convoy ambush near the DMZ.
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