Word: pow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven years American servicemen have been held in the POW camps of North Vietnam. The North has been exposed to merciless and massive U.S. bombing raids. Negotiations with Hanoi have gained nothing. In the course of the war, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians have been killed or wounded. Are we continually to lose more lives, waste more money, and send more U.S. pilots to the prisons of North Vietnam in order to supposedly save the POWs? Senator McGovern put it this way on July 24: "The bombing is how the prisoners got into prison. It's the height...
...MUST NOT forget that the words are all lies. The POW issue is a fraud. No country at war will release its prisoners until the war is over. Once the Indochina war ends satisfactorily, the North Vietnamese would be inconceivably stupid to retain American prisoners and needlessly inflame American public opinion. The American government, which is engaging in mass terror on an unprecedented scale, likes to point to NLF terror. It is true that the NLF has assassinated carefully selected Saigon officials. It is also true that while the American and Saigon terror have lost support for the perpetrators...
...vote was actually a revision of Senator Howard W. Cannon's (D-Nev.) amendment to Mansfield's proposal Cannon proposed an amendment to withdraw troops from South Vietnam 90 days after passage of the legislation provided Hanoi agreed to the release of American POW's and an accounting of those missing in action...
Grand Illusion One of Renoir's knockouts, Ostensibly the first POW escape movie, set behind the lines in Germany during World War I, it is just as much a commentary on declining class mores--the end of the aristocracy and the rise of the mechanic. With Jean Gabin, Eric von Stroheim. Marcel Dalio. SYMPHONY CINEMA ONE. Wednesday and Thursday, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Midnight Cowboy. John Schlesinger directed this intermittently moving but sometimes crude and gimmicky platonic Love Story between two buddy-buddy freak types on the fringes of Manhattan society. Superlatively acted by Jon Voight as a frustrated...
...fast-takeoff personality and his habit of shooting from the hip. Trained to shun publicity, they are scandalized by the fact that Knowles "talks in headlines" and gets a consistently good press. Last week the naturalized Brahmin moved to New York City to take over a new and more pow erful podium as president of the Rockefeller Foundation...