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Shortly after he was appointed president of Rice University in Houston seven years ago, Chemist Kenneth Pitzer was asked whether he planned to pattern his school after Caltech or M.I.T. Neither, replied Caltech Graduate Pitzer. "I intend to model it on Stanford...
After endless months of meager rations, disease, squatting through droning Viet Cong indoctrinations, and sleeping with their ankles locked in stocks, the three Special Forces sergeants were home. They had not been brainwashed. Daniel Lee Pitzer, 37, of Spring Lake, N.C., and James E. Jackson, 27, of Talcott, W. Va., plied their military escorts with questions about events since their capture-the Viet Nam buildup, hippies, the civil rights movement. "Is that the way America is?" asked one. The third released prisoner, Edward R. Johnson, 44, of Seaside, Calif., emaciated by disease, was dropped off in Washington for transfer...
Despite fatigue, spirits were high. Considering their daily fight to survive in the tiny prison compound in the pestiferous heart of the Mekong Delta, their condition was remarkable. "Coming back," said Pitzer, "is like being born again...
...prisoners were Sergeant Daniel Lee Pitzer of Spring Lake, N.C., Sergeant James E. Jackson Jr. of Talcott, W. Va. and Sergeant Edward R. Johnson of Seaside, Calif. Only Pitzer and Jackson were present at the ceremony, sitting behind a long table next to Hieu; the Viet Cong kept Johnson in the next room, explaining that he was too sick with dysentery to appear. The three had been prisoners in the Mekong Delta, and it had taken them, said Hayden, a month to reach Pnompenh from there, "under strafing, bombing and reconnaissance." All three remained in Viet Cong hands after...
Echoes of Korea. Both Pitzer and Jackson made set-piece speeches, obviously memorized, thanking the Viet Cong for releasing them. Jackson, dressed in shorts and sports shirt, said woodenly: "The National Liberation Front made the decision to release me in response to the colored Negro American struggle for peace in the U.S." Pitzer said that "I have not been physically tortured or beaten. I wish to thank the Front for their lenient policy." Though neither sergeant hinted at a condemnation or repudiation of the U.S. war effort in Viet Nam, the circumstances inevitably raised echoes of Korea and brainwashing...