Volume 15, Number 12 · January 7, 1971
Nixon and the Prisoners of War
By Jon M. Van Dyke
President Nixon's decision to send an expedition of commando forces to North Vietnam on a futile mission to rescue American prisoners of war was the climax of an eighteen-month campaign to arouse American public opinion about one of the less significant issues of the war and to divert our attention from the fighting and bombing and killing that are still continuing throughout Southeast Asia.
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