Word: north
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were these three men picked to be released? Frishman suggested an obvious factor: their injuries. His arm was beyond repair (North Vietnamese surgeons removed his elbow but managed to save his arm). Rumble suffered a debilitating back injury when he was shot down. As for Seaman Hegdahl, said Frishman, he was "Mr. Innocence himself...
...repeatedly accused the North Vietnamese of treating U.S. prisoners in brutal and inhumane ways. The accusations have seemed well-founded, especially in view of Hanoi's refusal to divulge the names of the men it holds and to allow a free flow of mail. But the testimony of the returning peace delegation seemed slightly hopeful. There was, of course, the possibility that the delegates were shown only carefully selected scenes by the North Vietnamese and were thus unwittingly taken in. It is also possible that their own sympathies colored their reports. Still, their testimony on the whole seemed credible...
...first contact leading toward last week's prisoner release came on July 1, two days before the North Vietnamese announced the move as a gesture in honor of American Independence Day. Xuan Oanh, of the Viet Nam Committee for Solidarity with the American People, cabled U.S. Pacifist David Dellinger, urging him to come to Paris to discuss matters of a similar character to Stewart Meacham's trip to Hanoi. The obliquely worded message referred to last year's release of prisoners to a delegation headed by Meacham, peace education secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Dellinger...
...delegation all the way back to the U.S. In the first of two previous releases, the prisoners had been met in Laos by State Department representatives, who induced them to board military aircraft for the rest of the trip home, thus cutting them loose from their pacifist escorts. The North Vietnamese felt that this had reduced the propaganda effect of their gesture and were anxious to avoid a recurrence...
Marathon Speech. The 1,915 delegates and some 150 foreign guests, including representatives from Cuba and North Viet Nam, gathered in Bucharest's Palace of Culture, a striking futuristic building that was completed only this year. Though Ceauşescu emphasized his evenhanded approach in the Sino-Soviet dispute by sending an invitation to Peking, the Chinese refused to attend. Apparently, they could not accept his precondition that while in Bucharest they refrain from polemics against other Communist nations. Foreign guests were whisked about in gleaming black Mercedes-Benz limousines, which have replaced Soviet-made Chaikas as the official...