Word: pasley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Virginia Pasley, a former newspaper correspondent and author of 21 Stayed, a book about brainwashed American prisoners in Korea, believes that Patty Hearst's experiences as a captive-if her account is true-coincide with those of the P.O.W.s. They were humiliated, stripped naked, confined in narrow spaces, forced to write life histories that often revealed disastrous childhoods. Most of the P.O.W.s who broke down were very young, Pasley says, and poorly educated-a characteristic, she believes, that Patty shares with them despite her finishing-school background. One P.O.W., Pasley recalls, was convinced by his captors that...