Word: harkins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political prisoners of the Vietnamese government locked into underground "tiger cages" that were being maintained by American dollars supporting the Vietnamese penal system. Luce told visiting Democratic Congressmen William R. Anderson and Augustus F. Hawkins, then escorted them on a tour of the cages, during which Congressional Aide Tom Harkin snapped a number of damning pictures. The Congressmen broke the story, and Luce supplied material for a pictorial essay in LIFE, creating considerable embarrassment for the Vietnamese government and the U.S. embassy in Saigon. He also wrote pieces for the Manchester Guardian and some Vietnamese papers...