Word: nams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, and he had looked forward to celebrating with a home-cooked meal and a cake baked by his stepmother. But it was more an occasion for sadness than joy for Marine Private First Class Robert Russell Garwood, 33, the last American P.O.W. to come home from Viet Nam. Instead of a hero's welcome, he was greeted on his return by a volley of accusations by other ex-P.O.W.s that he was actually a deserter who had willingly helped the Viet Cong beat and interrogate American prisoners. Last week the Marine Corps asked its naval superiors...
Bobby Garwood's Viet Nam saga began in Indianapolis in 1963, when the shy, slight youth dropped out of high school and, at the age of 17, enlisted in the Marines. Two years later, Garwood went to Viet Nam with the Third Marine Division, which was based in Danang. On Sept. 28, 1965, he disappeared while driving a Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question...
When the Vietnamese released the American P.O.W.s in 1973, Garwood remained in Viet Nam. Two months ago, he passed a note to a businessman from Finland stating that he wanted to come home. The State Department quickly arranged for his release...
Garwood's attorney, Dermot Foley, claims that his client is "desperately" in need of psychiatric care. "His defense is an absolute denial of the charges," says Foley. "There is no evidence against Bobby. He was held in Viet Nam against his will." Foley says that Garwood was shot during his capture and "surrounded by death" during the 14 years he spent in Viet Nam. "One particular P.O.W. death still overwhelms Bobby," says Foley. "He still has trouble talking about it, but when the story comes out it will greatly help explain what he did during those 14 years...
...promising as this research has been, Government agencies did not open the funding spigot for it until the 1970s, when the return of many drug-addicted veterans of Viet Nam prompted concern about just how such opiates as heroin and morphine work. The payoff came quickly. In 1973 three groups of researchers, Solomon Snyder and Candace Pert of Johns Hopkins University, Eric Simon of New York University and Lars Terenius of Uppsala, Sweden, announced almost simultaneously the discovery of specific receptors for such opiates in the brain. Snyder's lab located a high density of receptors in the medial...