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...Intelligence Agency, a U.S. Navy officer and a U.S. Air Force officer. He also told the Daily News that two of the POWs later returned to the U.S. -- an astounding claim, if true, because the only former POW known to have been repatriated after 1973 was Marine PFC Robert Garwood, who disappeared near Danang in 1965 and resurfaced 14 years later, claiming he had been a prisoner of the North Vietnamese. Garwood was court-martialed for collaborating with the enemy...
...talks to plants, if not to his wife Princess Diana. The British study, however, is only a warm-up for a nearly completed analysis of 800 American eccentrics. The tentative conclusion: the U.S. has displaced Britain as the uncontested eccentricity capital of the world. Declares Weeks, a native of Garwood, N.J.: "America, particularly California, has more eccentrics per square foot than anywhere else...
Next will come the fund raisers who made the private military aid possible. They will include retired Army General John Singlaub, who solicited money openly for the contras on a worldwide basis; Barbara Studley, a rather mysterious friend of Singlaub's; Ellen Garwood, the Texas multimillionaire who donated lavishly to Channell's groups; and Jane McLaughlin, a former Channell aide who has spoken freely about his White House ties. Hakim, expected to return from living abroad, will flesh out the details of secret money transfers through Switzerland and the Cayman Islands...
Channell, 41, runs a total of nine foundations and political-action committees for right-wing causes. He has raised money from such well-known conservative donors as Ellen Garwood of Austin, who once gave a helicopter to the contras. At a dinner in Washington's Willard Hotel on Nov. 11, North presented Channell with a thank-you letter from Ronald Reagan, expressing the President's appreciation for Channell's pro-contra efforts. When Congress was debating a resumption of military aid to the contras, earlier this year, Channell's Liberty endowment boasted that it would spend more than $2.5 million...
...Garwood "trial" is an absurd ending to an absurd war. I find no mercy, no justice and finally no sense whatever in even holding a trial, let alone the guilty verdict. I say, let the man go. He has paid enough...