Word: pow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians who have made it to Harvard seem to have little trouble making it once they are here. They come, in general, from an Indian elite--three of the four interviewed have parents holding government jobs usually held by Anglos. And even though they may dance at pow-wows or their relatives may make lacrosse sticks, they have not been sheltered from the white world...
...limited number of people, most of whom already have a bachelor's degree, are admitted. Such students are accepted because of some extraordinary type of preparation, or of some circumstances in their personal life. For instance, a former Air Force pilot who was held prisoner in a North Vietnameses POW camp in Hanoi was granted permission to study sociology in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. But the Special Students program is small: it is run on an ad hoc basis, and because most of its students study as graduates, they come into little contact with undergraduates...
...vote getter. From 1946 to 1958 he held eleven Cabinet posts in various pre-Gaullist governments, and he won an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote against Charles de Gaulle in the 1965 presidential election. A shrewd and brilliant tactician, he led his rejuvenated party last year into a pow erful coalition with his old foes, the Communists, to give the Gaullists their strongest challenge yet. While the U.D.R. hung on to its majority in the Assembly, the leftist union finished in a dead heat with the Gaullists (46%) in the popular vote...
...Andersonville Trial. A riveting dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the Confederate POW camp where 13,000 Union soldiers died during the Civil War. This production, which won an Emmy in 1970, was the first triumph of NET's accomplished Hollywood Television Theater. George C. Scott directs an excellent cast. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 3 hours...
...Force and Navy pilots operating in Indochina, including Mr. Nixon's POW pets who were shot down, have murdered, maimed and wounded in indiscriminate bombing, a thousandfold more Indochinese than Calley and his group. This was also true of the acts of other U.S. ground forces. All of these crimes were, of course, in violation of international laws which the U.S. government agreed to obey. This is the primary reason, in my view, why so many concerned Americans consider the trial, conviction and sentencing of Lt. Calley to prison as absurd and literally obscene...