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...POWs' rapid capitulation only heightened concern about their treatment. These men, after all, have been schooled in the art of surviving in captivity. Since the early 1970s, each of the armed forces has been running men and women through a program called SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape). The simulated POW experience includes incarceration in fenced compounds, sleep deprivation, interrogation and brainwashing. While military officials will not discuss the specifics of the seven-to-10-day courses, legal suits filed by troops who sustained injuries during the training attest to its realistic conditions...
...Baghdad has denied the International Committee of the Red Cross access to the allied POWs. By contrast, the Red Cross was permitted last week to visit seven Iraqi POWs hospitalized in Saudi Arabia and 35 Iraqis in Britain whose status changed from visiting student to POW when it was discovered that they were members of the Iraqi armed forces. Baghdad's refusal to permit inspection of the POWs served only to arouse fears about what is being done to the men. Last week's reports out of Baghdad that a downed allied pilot had been stoned by Iraqi citizens, despite...
This new policy toward Southeast Asia will have important effects on the U.S. In recognizing the Hun Sen government, Baker said the U.S. would initiate further talks with the Vietnamese. Perhaps these talks can finally end the POW-MIA confusion which has caused so much pain for so many Americans whose relatives and friends never returned...
JOHN MCCAIN (1992). Unlike his Arizona colleague, this Republican apologized early and often for his involvement with Keating. The Vietnam War POW will likely survive the next election...
...Defense Department has a strange way with awards. Until this week, the crew of the U.S.S. Pueblo, imprisoned after the ship was seized by North Korea in 1968, had not received the Pentagon's POW medal. Since the U.S. and North Korea were not at war at the time, former Commander Lloyd Bucher and his men were classified as mere "detainees." It took an act of Congress to change the Pentagon's mind. Contrast that with the medals awarded to Captain Will Rogers III and Lieut. Commander Scott Lustig of the S.S. Vincennes last year. They were cited for their...