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...North Vietnamese. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, post offices began issuing the first of 135,000,000 special stamps reading POW/MIA (missing in action). More than half a million fund-raising letters will be sent to possible contributors, asking them to help the effort by buying a ten-dollar "POW Action Pack," containing stickers (Have a Heart, Hanoi), buttons, and suggestions for forming local groups to push for the freedom of the prisoners. As Christmas Seal season nears, TV and radio ads will urge Americans not to forget the flyers who cannot celebrate with their families. The effort will climax with...
Nixon is taking a calculated gamble by encouraging the families of prisoners to organize and become more vocal. Under Johnson, Defense Department officials urged prisoners' wives to be loyal to military tradition by waiting in silence. They recognized that, once loosed, the POW question could quickly inflate into an emotional issue beyond the control of the Administration...
Nixon is no less aware that he may be sowing the wind by allowing the plight of the POW's to dominate the nation's attention this winter-but he expects that the North Vietnamese, not his Administration, will reap the whirlwind that results. The tear-jerking Christmas-in-Hanoi campaign is, in fact, part of a shrewd double-bladed political defense he has constructed to still domestic protest and free his hand further for acts of aggression against North Vietnam...
...with Joe during the two years they were together in Ithaca. He told of the experience of seeking shelter underground as protection from a B-52 bombing raid on Hanoi while he was there in 1967 on a mission of mercy to bring back to America three POW's. He spoke of the children he saw in North Vietnam who had been burned with napalm, and of the total destruction of the countryside and food supply of that small nation. He told of his growing concern that Americans were unaware of the things being done in their name...
...stronger pianist tear into his music. "You know," says Ohlsson, "in the U.S. we treat the mazurkas, for example, as inconsequentially as tea cookies. But the Poles don't want that kind of refinement. Mazurkas are folk music to them. What they want in them is a nice pow!" Ohlsson has the pow, and starting right now, he also has the how of a new and brightly blooming musical career...