Word: pow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroes have returned from the fray an' will shortly squat before the campfire to pow-wow an' parley...
...advertising budget and almost no reviews (Publishers' Weekly, hardly the most demanding medium in the world, called it "ickypoo"). How Jonathan rose slowly on its own merits or demerits, over 18 months, finding an audience?at first mainly youthful denizens of the ever hip West Coast. And then POW!?how in 1972 Jonathan sold over a million copies, breaking all hardback book records since Gone With the Wind...
...After the war is over and the POW's are repatriated. draft resisters would be allowed to return to the U.S. and urged to volunteer for two years of public service at subsistence wages...
...VALERIE KUSHNER, a POW's wife, said recently that "Nixon's final solution seems to be to bomb the prisoners and all of Indochina into oblivion." Our present policy only offers America flag-draped coffins, wasted money, more POWs imprisoned in North Vietnam, aging wives and dying mothers in the States, and hundreds if not thousands of screaming Vietnamese wives and children fleeing from the reign of exploding napalm so methodically dropped by men who should return to a weary America. Until January, at the earliest, the decision lies with a two-faced administration...
Cora Weiss spokesman for the committee which arranged the trip and a member of the haison group which recently returned three American POW, said yesterday that findings will also "tell American people what American bombs are doing to civilians...