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F-l1'ntr, spt:akinl-1 at I Irress con' fercuce al I{cesicr.{IrB I'rida.y aftcrnoon, stated tirat iie fireis, "'I'iiis idetr r-rf cxtctrsion of liatc is a very hurrtat: cxpt'cssiotl, httt clte 1 don't pcl'soriallrv ilg1'ce v.'iih. 1 think that tircrc is a blicge tc tllc fLiture atrd ihc irridgr: to the futu: c irivolvcs strch thir:3s as tc('rionl;c assis;tatnce to those i;eoPlc ri'ho need it, provicle <i, of cor:r-sc,lve arc not taken ilr L-v them." He said lte believcs ihe .{nreri' can people ttrusi. bc verv cnrciul as to the tcrnts of the goocl "i'iil, but. that he is sure thc 1'l'esidcnt is rvell arva.r'e of tiicsc ter11s.
Gctrcr'al }rlynn. a native of Cicve' tancl, Ohio, rvhose family rcsiCes in Shalin.rar, Fla., u'as -cl.iot do',vn
lrn F-105 combat nrissioir over liortir Vict'
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General Flynn ex' presscd regrct that many
ing his inrprisortt:tcnt. I-Ic: said the name was c):,.rsen bccattsc "l his rvas the fottrth rt,ar itr u'hich rvc Iorrgirt as allics. " At one point, hc ci,:scribcd trt.at'
nlcnt as "somctit:",crs hrulai,
peopir had assurred thc
ha.C becn to'ld byr the Fovern'inent rvhat to ser', vrhen, in f aci., his o.,,/n e.s. .cor'i ofiicer to Clark told hiln he cor-:ld off er lio 8'1lid' ance as to rvhrrt thc fornter POW should say.
men
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oitelr indiifcrcrl'., sotnetit-t-les kind." Hor,,'cver, ire said, that it
never canie up to',lte interna.tiortal standards prescriLcd by thc Genc' va C()r: \'i l:t iotl. I{c said he is distl'cssed tirat the Nol'th \rit:tnatncs:e hat'e llot vel re" leaseci trvo 'Ihai prisot-lct's, no'rii 8
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tlrc le\.crarle I'o:slblc'' tc (ri.laiil thc lclc,rst'of titl :;tctt, "sc tl.rt "i'':
crn ciose thc Iinal chaptcr'-tiral rtil the mct: in thc irourth lVirg trra-v rettirtr in accordaticc r';ii.h our *'iltg motto, ilctiirn Iii'Lir I'loncr." r\skeci u'lli' rto Ilt.itli' of thc rat-,kirg offrcers depl;ri-rirrg a'L Clark .\ir Easc itr tire Philipplrles atld ins'";;-i" lations aroultd the countrl', ltird made similar sir,lements, i'11':n sa.icl, "You're loollil.rg at the guiil,y
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nlcs-qages tc the t:ren, althcuglt a.t no tinte did hc ever tcll therl, speelllU(rll.\,
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he said, btrt as an adi'isorY. be' c:-usc he felt an appropriate str-tc' mcnt rvould bc. "I have bectr
privilcgeci to sr:rve my cour!trJ" un'
dcr diificuit circurrrstances," and
a(ainsl nten \\';-ro a)lu3coi1' coiiai:oratcri, tr'i:inn said, "It is my unrlerltanding that the Departmcni of Dc[ense, a; an agcncy, l:a,s sratcd that it is r:ot going to take a.n1' action agaittst sn:rone rvho rnade sta'rements whiie theY were in l{orth Vieinam,"
Hc aride<i h1s Personal assurance tirat he agrees
vrith the Po)icY' bccaltse "to the best of mY knov.''
lcdxe, thc
Yiettta n.tcsc absotutelY r','ortid not have gottell anY st.itcr:,ctrts hail
[h.r" ltot becn toriure' pressuies, <luresse, so 1 ii.rink thin is a vcrY viise thing." He said the North Viet' namese " arc- cons',ttnnrate nlasters at establishing siluations rvhich inciicalc thal sotrie n-ien are coaPer' ating antl lhci' do t)ris itt
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the:n. So. in t:ian-v ir-istancesr one might tliini< a
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