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...January 3, 1972, minutes before he told newsmen that Nixon had "deceived the American people" into believing that Hanoi would not agree to exchange U.S. prisoners for a fixed withdrawal date for all U.S. forces, McGovern telephoned Xuan Oanh, secretary of the North Vietnamese delegation at Paris, to clarify the conditions for prisoner release. Oanh confirmed that his government would release prisoners in exchange for a fixed U.S. withdrawal date; when asked of the fate of the Thieu regime if the U.S. agreed to a withdrawal date, Oanh said that it was the best judgement of his delegation that Thieu...
...certain that he actually would bite that bullet. He told a group of editors in Kansas City, Mo., as late as July 6: "You cannot have wage and price controls without rationing. They do not work in peacetime." About the same time, Connally was telling newsmen that there would be no wage-price freeze, no wage or price review boards, no tax cuts...
...thousands of spectators cheered, the men were tortured for more than an hour and then bayoneted to death. Other prisoners, particularly razakars, or members of the army-backed East Pakistani militia, have been summarily executed since the war ended. What distinguished the Dacca incident was the fact that Western newsmen were on hand to record the scene and send out photographs despite the determined censorship efforts of Indian authorities...
...scene was oddly reminiscent of the days in 1968 when American pilots flying Rolling Thunder missions regularly went down over North Viet Nam. In Hanoi, four U.S. airmen -two still in their flight suits, two already in P.O.W. blues-were trotted out before gloating Communist newsmen at a press conference. The flyers, said their captors, had ejected from two F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers that had crashed near Hanoi and Haiphong. "All four looked very miserable and showed great fear on their faces," Radio Hanoi reported. They had come, it added, for a "brazen" attack "deep into the mainland...
Grayer heads at the United Nations recall that a woman once lost her press credentials for practicing prostitution and a male correspondent was barred for slugging one of the delegates. Otherwise, U.N. accreditation has never been a problem for newsmen. A 1946 resolution stipulates that "the press and other existing agencies of information be given the fullest direct access"-language so broad it could cover not only news organizations but propaganda groups as well. Last week, however, the U.N. press corps was in an uproar over the ouster of two veteran correspondents of Taiwan's government-subsidized Central News...