Word: die
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Cora Weiss, co-chairman of the antiwar Committee of Liaison with Families of Servicemen Detained in North Viet Nam. Mrs. Weiss has given Washington the names of 22 such Americans in all. None of the information she has received from Hanoi indicates whether the men died in captivity or earlier, when their aircraft were knocked down, and she bitterly complained last week that the Government had twisted her report to justify the raid. The Administration, however, says that it has proof that some of the men did die in P.O.W. camps: in two of the six cases...
...within a set period. Says Mrs. Frankie Ford of Orange Park, Fla.: "If it is true that they will not be released until the U.S. gets out, then why don't they set a date and get out now? This war cannot be successful. Why should one more man die on the battlefield or in the prisons...
Still, when she pleads at play's end, "I'm too young to die," she's certainly got the best line. The wonder is that The Three Musketeers can get away with such foolishness. It's all so blatantly foolish that the usual objections one feels compelled to raise when faced with such trifling Leeb confections-that so much effort should be directed toward so trivial an end-become a kind of joke. So then. One for all and all for one? Right...
...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...
...This is it," explained Wally Brown, chairman of the Model Cities Board. "We either live or die on these issues. We've got to establish the fact that we are the people who cope with these things...