Pensacola State College - Tide Yearbook (Pensacola, FL)

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PCW-MIA Project In November the people of Pensacola respond- ed to the continuing problem of the plight of Amer- ican POW-MIA's - those too-often forgotten Americans who have disappeared behind North Vietnam's bamboo curtain during the long years of the Vietnam War. A campaign was mounted to raise money to send a delegation of nine Pensacola youths to Paris, France to seek information on American POW-MIA's from North Vietnam's delegation at the Paris Peace Talks. After numerous fund- raising activities including road blocks, car Wash- es, sales of various sorts, dances and donation drives, enough money Was raised to send a group of nine youths - eight high school students and one PJC student - to Paris to do, as it turned out, what no other similar student group had been able to do for at least tvvo years - talk to the North Vietnamese delegation. Contacting ambassadors, visiting embassies, making telephone calls and composing a most im- pressive telegram, the Pensacola delegation finally obtained an audience with Ngyuen Tau Lein, the North's chief peace talk delegate. Expressing sur- prise that the citizens of Pensacola would send such a large youth delegation, Lein, who had ori- ginally granted only a five minute meeting, spent nearly three hours talking with three members of the delegation. Though no immediate tangible action resulted - no new information was obtained on American POW-MIA's - the World was made aware that Pensacola youth do care about American POW- MIA's. 'Hmm' Escambia High School student Kip Jackson signs POW-MIA document as Ben Blanchard, delegate from Pensacola Junior College, watches. PJ C students write letters to the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris. lffjjx , X XXV!! -.X XX I

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