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...that crowd hissed George Bush. In fact, much like Carter, Bush can't seem to get a break the summer before what he hopes will be his second election to the White House Just last Friday, family members of POW MIAs--another group Bush advisers thought would be polite--jeered the president at their annual meeting in Crystal City, Va. Now Dukakis-like, Bush was left angrily defending his patriotism and war record...
Third-party candidates often stumble badly in their quest for a plausible No. 2. Remember General Curtis ("Bomb Them Back to the Stone Age") LeMay, George Wallace's 1968 ticket mate? Perot has already tapped retired Admiral James Stockdale, a conservative former Vietnam pow, as his stand-in running mate to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Perot calls Stockdale his "fail- safe fallback" and has said that he will, if necessary, "just go with the team we have...
...exodus of Vietnamese boat people that began in 1975 brought a surge in tales of POW sightings, some of them apparently inspired by the mistaken belief that anyone offering such stories to immigration officials would be put on a quick path to the U.S. For similar reasons, a macabre trade in bones said to be the skeletons of American servicemen became a growth industry in Vietnam: the going price for a box of purported remains ranges from $1,000 to $5,000. Most of them turn out to be animal bones or the skeletons of Vietnamese...
Billy Hendon, also a former Republican Congressman, currently heads the POW Policy Center. For several years, the group has offered -- over U.S. government objections -- a $2.5 million reward to anyone in the region who can deliver a live American POW to safety. This effort has so far produced no results...
Eugene ("Red") McDaniel, a retired Navy captain who heads the American Defense Foundation and its educational arm, the American Defense Institute, came to the POW issue the hard way -- he was once one himself. After his release in 1973, he resumed his military career, ending up at the Pentagon, where he concluded that "the U.S. government would never do the job" of tracking down the POWs who he became convinced were left behind. McDaniel's group has been the conduit for a number of photographs of alleged POWs that ^ have been made public recently, including the now famous picture that...