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Lance Morrow's excellent report [CINEMA, July 19] on the recently released documentary film Return with Honor gives well-deserved recognition to the heroism of the American POWs who endured years of unspeakable torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. In his televised interview, my father Commander Jeremiah Denton stunned and infuriated his captors by defying them directly with words that pledged his support to the American government "as long as I live...
...cover the possibility that the communists would dub in words to replace his own defiant words and explain why he had agreed to be interviewed. My father received the highest Navy award, the Navy Cross, for his heroic words of defiance, not for his clever blinking. JAMES S. DENTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Freedom House Washington...
...Vice President in 1992 with Ross Perot) driven to such despondency in prison that he attempts suicide. Here is the Navy's Richard Stratton "playing the Manchurian candidate," he says, pretending to be brainwashed when paraded before propaganda cameras. Forced into the same mock show, Commander Jeremiah Denton blinks out T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse code with his eyelids. Lieut. Paul Galanti casually displays both middle fingers before the cameras (only to have the obscene gesture airbrushed out by LIFE magazine...
Kinneen was involved in six consecutive Harvardscores within a five-minute stretch, recording twobuckets, three assists and two steals. She wasalso the author of the game's most vicious block,a swat of an attempted fast-break lay-up byWofford's Meredith Denton midway through thesecond half that left Denton on her back and sentthe ball careening off the wall of LavietesPavilion...
WOFFORD:Parris 4-7 0-2 9; Denton 2-8 0-0 5;Dubuisson 7-9 4-6 18; Nett 6-19 0-0 13; Hines1-3 0-0 2; Brown 3-7 0-0 6; Martin 0-0 0-0 0;Ridgill 0-1 0-0 0; Franks 1-2 2-2 4; Massey 5-51-1 11; Adelaine 2-4 0-0 4; Wells 0-0 0-0 0;Ross 0-1 0-0 0. TOTALS 31-66 7-11 72.HARVARD:Miller 6-14 0-1 15; Kowal 3-6 3-612;Egelhoff...