World: Two for the Show

Determined to milk as much benefit as possible from U.S. antiwar demonstrations, the Viet Cong last week freed two G.I.s especially with the Vietnik audience in mind. The men were Staff Sergeant George E. Smith, 27, and Specialist Fifth Class Claude McClure, 25, both of whom had been Communist prisoners for more than two years. The Viet Cong delivered them, well fed and in apparent good health, to a Cambodian border post only a few hours after a V.C. radio station had broadcast that the G.I.s were being released "as a response to the friendly sentiments of the American people against...

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