MANY U.S. goals in Viet Nam have been scaled down or simply abandoned, but President Nixon has frequently renewed two pledges. One is that Saigon will be given "a reasonable chance" of survival. The other, an emotional issue about which the President has made it clear there can be no compromise, is that the U.S. will fight on until it can recover the 460-odd Americans now held prisoner.
For months, the Communists demanded that the U.S. make concessions before they would even discuss the prisoners. "It always comes back to the same thing," Nixon said in a moment of exasperation. "If we...
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