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...plight of the P.O.W.s-President Nixon, the wives of the P.O.W.s, Congress and the media. Embarrassed by world pressure, the politburo in Hanoi may have passed the word to go easier. At any rate, prisoners were allowed for the first time to exercise outdoors for 30 minutes, but behind bamboo screens so that they could not see each other; they got a third daily meal of bread and water, and a third blanket. They began to pass their days in boredom rather than fear. Milligan began to raise a family of spiders in his cell, and watched geckos "mate with each...
...took 19 flights to lift out the 2,500 American servicemen who still remained in the country on the last day. At about 5:20, a chipper North Vietnamese colonel stationed at the rear cargo ramp of a hulking U.S. Air Force C-141 transport presented a bamboo scroll painted with a Hanoi pagoda scene to an embarrassed American sergeant, whom he thought to be the last departing American. Moments later, Army Colonel David Odell, the Tan Son Nhut base commander, shouldered through the crowd and stepped to the boarding ramp; he had been having a final glass of champagne...
...steady diet of beatings-as well as sand and pebbles in the rice-dysentery, tuberculosis and chronic stomach disorders were common. Water was limited to three swallows a day, forcing prisoners to drink urine. Those who pleaded-for more food were splashed with lye or poked with long bamboo poles...
Things have been especially bad since the ceasefire. When told of the Paris settlement, the prisoners cheered, only to be stopped by doses of lye and bamboo. "We had hoped to begin the New Year with happiness," said one. "But my New Year began when I was doused with excrement...
...Captain George Wanat was more bitter than most about his captivity with the Viet Cong. He told his father in Waterford, Conn., "I'd kill those bastards if I ever saw them again." He reported that he had been kept in solitary confinement for five months "in a bamboo cage full of ants and poisonous snakes." His diet, he said, was rice and pork fat, rationed at one bowl a day, plus some water...