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How about revenue sharing with the people who earned it?

The effort to gain more humane treatment and the eventual release of the American prisoners of war is expanding. Among organizations and individuals that have come to our attention are the Association for a Strong America (which is trying to unite various smaller POW groups); VIVA (Voices in Vital America—it works primarily on campus to involve students of all political leanings); the Reverend J. A. O. Preus, President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, who is starting “a modern ‘crusade’—a visit to Hanoi and to other Communist leaders to intercede on behalf of American prisoners of war being held by North Vietnam, the Vietcong and the Pathet Lao.” The National POW Day Committee (503 Fifth Avenue, Suite 109, New York, N.Y. 10017) is planning “nationwide demonstrations protesting the Communist brutality inflicted upon American prisoners of war”; these demonstrations, to take place on April 28, have been endorsed by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and by many governors and mayors. But the most dramatic event so far has been the offer by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to pay $100,000 to anyone who rescues an American prisoner from Indochina. By any means.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

How about revenue sharing with the people who earned it?

The effort to gain more humane treatment and the eventual release of the American prisoners of war is expanding. Among organizations and individuals that have come to our attention are the Association for a Strong America (which is trying to unite various smaller POW groups); VIVA (Voices in Vital America—it works primarily on campus to involve students of all political leanings); the Reverend J. A. O. Preus, President of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod, who is starting “a modern ‘crusade’—a visit to Hanoi and to other Communist leaders to intercede on behalf of American prisoners of war being held by North Vietnam, the Vietcong and the Pathet Lao.” The National POW Day Committee (503 Fifth Avenue, Suite 109, New York, N.Y. 10017) is planning “nationwide demonstrations protesting the Communist brutality inflicted upon American prisoners of war”; these demonstrations, to take place on April 28, have been endorsed by the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia and by many governors and mayors. But the most dramatic event so far has been the offer by the Veterans of Foreign Wars to pay $100,000 to anyone who rescues an American prisoner from Indochina. By any means.