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...December 1972, when ground fire punctured its fuel line. The plane was limping back to base in Thailand when it exploded and plunged into the jungle about 25 miles northeast of Pakse, Laos. Two crewmen parachuted to safety, and a rescue helicopter recovered the partial remains of a third airman. That left 13 Americans on the plane presumed dead but designated as missing in action, a classification that encompasses 2,483 other Americans unaccounted for in Southeast Asia...
...cause I was an American." An Air Force P.O.W in North Viet Nam tells interrogators he will not be used for propaganda: "My color doesn't have nothin' to do with it. We have problems in the U.S., but you can't solve them." Another captured airman takes the same stand: "Although black people are kind of behind the power curtain, we have just as much claim to this country as any white man. America is the black man's best hope...
...Washington, had it that a U.S. destroyer was fired on by an Iranian warplane. There were also reports of dissension within the Iranian armed forces over the Khomeini government's new policy in the gulf. Many naval officers were said to be opposed to it, and an airman was reported to have defected to Saudi Arabia in his U.S.-built Phantom F-4 fighter aircraft...
...always, one of the campaign's most sensitive issues is how much the "longshot candidates get covered. Jesse Jackson, as the only black, was followed even before he officially announced, and after his successful mission to Syria to negotiate the release of downed U.S. Airman Robert Goodman, the attention sharply increased. After Glenn slipped in the poll standings, more notice was given to Gary Hart. But there is still scant coverage for Alan Cranston, George McGovern, Ernest Rollings or Reubin Askew. Stories about the "second tier" of candidates, moreover, tend to dismiss them as having no chance...
...Goodman's release startled Washington, it did not surprise the supremely confident Jackson. Two weeks ago, .he learned through press reports that Rumsfeld had not even mentioned Goodman during talks in Damascus. Jackson blasted the Administration for not doing enough to free the airman, and within days the Syrians said he would be welcome in Damascus. He insisted he would not go if Reagan asked him not to, but four telephone calls to the President went unreturned...