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...cover story this week deals with a particularly poignant aspect of the war, yet one unusually difficult to report: the U.S. prisoners in North Viet Nam. From Saigon, Correspondent James Willwerth cabled that he was personally convinced that there had been no security leak on the abortive Son Tay raid: "Most military and intelligence people in Saigon simply weren't given the details of the air strikes or the commando raid. They hadn't seen the script." In Washington, Correspondent William Mader, who has followed the plight of the prisoners all along, talked with concerned Government officials...
...this public and private activity was beginning to surface long before the Son Tay raid, but Son Tay brought the whole effort into the open. "After this, I believe that nothing is impossible," says Mrs. Kevin McManus, secretary-treasurer of the National League. "It's a tremendous boost. People do care now." Many wives take the Son Tay raid as an overdue sign of concern on the part of the U.S. Government; they also feel that it will buoy the morale of their imprisoned husbands. No one, however, is quite sure just how the prisoners will find out about...
Some in Washington believe that the Son Tay raid left the U.S. worse off than it was before. With Hanoi surely tightening the defenses of the P.O.W. camps, further rescue attempts will be vastly more difficult?but President Nixon has already hinted that he has just that in mind. At his Thanksgiving dinner for injured servicemen, speaking to Marine Sergeant George Lowry, the President likened the situation to a football game. "Sometimes you have to take them by surprise," he said. "You run a play and it fails. Then you turn around and call the same play again because they...
...good for an assault either at the end of October or at the end of November. The weather worsened, so the October date was scratched. After a National Security Council meeting on Nov. 5, Laird stayed behind and told Nixon that it was time for a decision if the raid was to be held that month. On Nov. 11?Veterans Day, renamed "Prisoners of War Day" this year by presidential proclamation?Nixon assembled Rogers, Laird, Kissinger and Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer reviewed the plans. The hazards were clear. The slow, low-flying, vulnerable...
...pretext for the Son Tay raid was fragile. Cora Weiss, who returned from Hanoi with the news that six prisoners of war had died, has claimed that Laird twisted the information and that, in her opinion, the prisoners did not die of mistreatment. The U. S. can easily hoke up another "mistreatment" scare whenever it decides that the North Vietnamese need a dose of terror, and send in the kamikaze killers...