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Last month former U.N. Ambassador Bill Richardson and 20 other high-ranking former diplomats and military officers argued in a letter to Bush that "it would be simply unthinkable to ask the American POWs tortured by Iraq to bear the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq." Will Bush come to the rescue? Treasury Department general counsel David Aufhauser says, "The first priority is to apply the money to a free Iraq to make sure there are no more victims." But with the draft of a POW Protection Act already circulating on Capitol Hill, he adds, "the President is committed...
...Cartier-Bresson since 1952. "I wanted to try to explain the man behind the myth, and how he became who he is, to show the exceptional coherence of everything he's done." The show includes a raft of family-album pictures, memorabilia and snapshots of Cartier-Bresson as a PoW in World War II. "Luckily," says his wife, the photographer Martine Franck, "Henri kept almost everything," to which he adds: "I didn't keep anything. I just didn't throw anything away." The retrospective coincides with the publication of a weighty companion book and with the opening of the Henri...
...Claimants: Frozen out? U.S.A. Twelve years ago, during the first Gulf War, marine pilot Clifford Acree was tortured by Saddam Hussein's henchmen for 47 days. He was subjected to mock executions and systematically starved until he began eating the scabs off his own body. Along with 16 other POWs, Acree filed suit to claim compensation from Iraq's $1.7 billion in frozen assets. But they may never see the money. On March 20, President Bush confiscated Iraq's assets "to assist the Iraqi people and for the reconstruction of Iraq." Bush's order made an exception for cases...
Considering that hers was the first successful rescue of an American POW since World War II--and the first ever of a woman--the story not only made headlines the world over, but it also buoyed a nation wondering what had happened to the short, neat liberation of Iraq. Within a few hours of the news, the picture of the doe-eyed Lynch swaddled in an American flag while being whisked to safety on a military stretcher had already become an icon. President Bush--along with the inevitable gaggle of book and movie agents--sent best wishes...
What about American media treatment of Iraqi POWs? A Pentagon spokesman said last week that all journalists embedded with the troops had agreed not to show the faces of Iraqi POWs, which would open the prisoners to "public curiosity." But by now hundreds of Iraqi POWs have been shown onscreen and in print (including in TIME). In one worrisome story, aired March 22 on NBC Nightly News, a camera operator shone his lights in the faces of kneeling, bound Iraqi captives. "As I reach over here," said correspondent Kerry Sanders, leaning in to pick up a POW's food packet...