Word: p
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 to conduct a formal investigation of the charges, which Garwood denies...
...Other ex-P.O.W.s told John G. Hubbell, author of the book P.O. W., that Garwood "occasionally was put in charge of the American P.O.W.s" and "had no qualms about barking orders at them...
...many of the same audiences seem blissfully unconcerned about chemical accidents, even though some compounds may retain their toxic strength longer than radioactive trash. Worse, many people are willing to live with large amounts of one of these chemicals, a compound called 2,3,7,8 tetrachlo-rodibenzo-p-dioxin, also known as dioxin. The attitude may prove suicidal. A common contaminant of several widely used herbicides, dioxin is so deadly that a few ounces could poison whole communities...
FIRST SINGLES--B. Richmond (H) def. S. Zasloff (P...
SECOND SINGLES--M. Roberts (H) def. J. Bemstein (P...