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...Cora Weiss, national coordinator for Friendshipment, said one immediate goal of the conference was to generate support for U.S. recognition of Vietnam...
from the play by ANNA CORA MOWATT...
...first the premise seems perilously cute. The time is "nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
...Roger E. Shields, chief Pentagon specialist for prisoner affairs, replied: "He's an officer in the United States Navy." Mrs. Gartley began to sob. "I haven't cried since the day you called me and said my son was shot down," she told Shields. Afterward Mrs. Cora Weiss, a member of the peace delegation that escorted the prisoners from Hanoi, said in angry hyperbole: "We have just witnessed a recapture scene, replacing one incarceration with another-a hell of a thank...
...release had been a long, peculiar and occasionally bungled process. It began on Aug. 30, when longtime Antiwar Activist Cora Weiss received a transatlantic call from a member of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks. Almost three weeks later, Hanoi released Gartley, who was shot down, Aug. 17, 1968, Air Force Major Edward Elias, a prisoner since April 20, 1972, and Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Norris Charles, a captive since Dec. 30, 1971. All three were placed in the custody of Mrs. Weiss and Antiwar Activists David Dellinger, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and Princeton International...