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WarCLARK AIR BASE, Philip-pm?s (AP) — Thirty-four cautiously smiling war prisoners,ir fc lirg a German nurse, arrived to a cheering welcome here Monday after being released by the Viet Cong in Hanoi.Ano her 106 American POWs feed Sundav by North Vietnamwere speed ing through medicalchecks heading toward a possible Wednesday flight home totfv' United S‘ates.The chalkv-faced prisoners releaed by the Viet Cong werein noticeably poorer shape. One vis hanYd n a litter from the plrne that ferried them in from Hanoi. Another hobbled off on clutches, Tne left arm of a third roneared x dangle limply a his sideBut their joy was evident as they jonlt;d those released Sunday in erroying the small pleasures of life denied them in prison. They gobbled down steakmoverseleasedand epgs, telephoned their fam-il os back home and tinkeredwith their hospital televisionsets.They were to begin thoroughmedical examinations t o d a v.how good it is to be free, how good it s to be home.” he said.\ rm v Si.red. 24ofinst?,’1. i uhv heex;: : amp iromSgt, Bill Allen of Wooster, Ohio, v hobbled down thethe C141onthe Viet Ceng told the U S. pickup prrty in Hanoi that noneof the men had an injury “tha’couldn’t be fixed.”Tne «u6 Americans who werereleased from North Vietnamese camps Sundav alreadywere wt! along the checkup and debriefing routine Hc«oitalsources said thev exoectcd a*number o» them to flv homeM;JWednesday.\f* -The 5«nior military man cn « *Monday's flight. Army Cm:. S.ephen R Leopold 28. of Milwaukee. Whs., sooke for the group of 34 on their arrival at Clark.“Mv God. vou don't knowMilitary speke-men said Baird 1 ad been offered a litter but refused. He smiled as he saiuled and shock hands with waitrrig officials before being hebod i long the 39-foot red■■ jca-pe1 to a blue hospital busThe latest POW’s included 27; nd Army men, three I .S. nlvi- ans, a German nurse and medical student cantured at a charitv mission and two F Sin mo employes of the Voiceof America.All were cantured by gvcr-rillas in South Vietnam and this wa^ believed o account for the difference in their conditionThe new- group apoeared thin-VietAir Force Etrig. Gen Russellcru'chcs, helped by two attend-toOgrn. 49, ofReading Pa., sa.dants.P-ner and less vigorous than the 308 who arrived frcm Hanoi tlieday before. Military spokesmen e-.imated the 34 had been held in Hanoi for several monthsa iter being walked or trucked Nor h Vietnam frcm theirp.aces of captivity in the South.Several of the freed prisoners bowed incongruously as they saltued Atim. Noel Gayior, commander of U.S. Pacificforces, and the 13th Air Forcecommander. Lt, Gen. William G. Moore Jr.President Ferdinand E. Marcus of the Philippines also was among :be official weleomers. He hugged the two Film nos as the r wives and children danced around themNurse Monika Schw ?m, 30, anative of Lehach, West Germany. decended the ext ramp carrying a bouquet of yellow roses sent to her bv MariawKrieger. a German-born wife ofr- * .^ - 'jjijk. *. • ■*.* *.* * • n. * jf *’ • • I * V ' 1 • ■'AVt'M i t/B• Ml • » » • ' .*: .*. * * . .*Tr»’ •) . . ir * a »v*..* . » • - * *• - » V * y » • (SAIGON (AP - An impasse In the exchange of Vietnamesewar prisoners threatens to delay the peacekeeping efforts of the four-pa ty Jcxt Military Commission before it expires in less than a month.A spokesman for the U.S. defecation said there was no immediate indication that future release of American prisoners would be affected bv a threat-■ rmpened boycott Monday of the militaiy commission by the Communist deiezatKms.“We have that the onhalwavs insistedwcondition for the Wrelease of American prisonersis the rate of withdrawals of U S. troops.” the U.S. spokesman said. “There are no otherconditions ”The U.S. spokesman said that the North Vietnamese foreignmins er Neuven Duv Thad assured .Secretary ofSft. tes would be relented by the specified deadline. March 28.He said there need not be formal meet mgs of the com mi s. sion to arrange for the release of the 286 American prisoners still in Communist hands North Vietnam and the Viet Conghav. released 299 American prisoners in the first two batches. ard there are two more scheduled.Earlier, the senior U S representative, Maj. Gen. Gilbert H Woodward,commission that the U.S. position is thnt the agreement must tie strictly followed on POWs. He said prisoners should be released at specified times, thetold the militaryes*?.nn,rert: tephV. stL m L 'peron-prisishould lie com- tains that Saigon should releaseup to 7,000 miliary prisoners incent of the total number of rer; held by each side snould be released in each of four groups.“We consider the lists exchanged in Paris to form tihefor future exchanges,” W oodward declared.The Communist side maintain-, that the Saigon government is unwilling to release a fourth of the prisoners it still holds, on the basis of the Pans lists, in the second batch.In the first repatriation that began Feb. 12 and lasted aweek. South Vietnam releasedabout 7.000 North Vietnamese or Viet Cong prisoners. The Veit Cong freed 1,000 South Vietnamese military men.The Communist sidemain-the second phase. But Saigonhas offered only 3.000 so far,claiming that the Viet Cor? have not accounted for all of the 31.818 government soldiers, and 59.118 civilians the Saigongovernment lists as missing orcaptured.The military commis-ion — fie United States. South Vietnam. North Vietnam ar.d the Viet Cong — was set up to bring the Jan. 28 cease-fire intoeffect.It had been hoped that thecommission might speed up itsmission in the last 30 days of its 60-day term established in the Jan. 28 peace agreement, before it gives way to tfie two-party Joint Military Commission made up of representativesngticeablyreran Air Force sergeant stationed Da Nang in April 1969 The oth-beena Clark.er three died in captivity, Mal-Mrs. Krieger and 20 ether tese Society spokesmen saidquest of his family.The three American civiliansthe 106 Americans were beingexamined before they fly toBangkok. Military officials atGerman-born w'ivcs waved aInformed sources said Diehl released were Clodeon Adkins, Clark have slammed a tight lidGerman flag and a banner thatstartled the Vietnamese and57, of Homelandp oclaimed ''wilikcmen.”elated the Americansatchael Dennis Benge, 37. ofon any information about theThais. The North VietnameseMiss Schwinn didn't seem tonotice them. But the other German, Bernhard Diehl, 27. of Worms, saw the banner Grig, burst into a huge smile and waved his arms above his head.Hanoi's Gia Lam airport whenhe turned toward a crowd before boarding the evacuation plane and shouted: ‘‘God bless America!”Heppner, Ore., and Lawrence say they were mercenary spiesJ. Stark, 37. of Chicago, 111. All were captured during the 1968 Tet offensive in South Vietnam.shot down in a U.S. plane.The da r k-ha’red MissSchwinn smiled slightly as she walked o the hospital bus. SheArmy S. Sgt. Gail M. Kerrs, 26. of Daniels. W.Va., was taken off the huge C141 in a litter. He was captured March 27,1939.wore whi e sandals along withth? gray jacket, gtav wo ks’rrt ard baggy blue fousers provided all the POWs by theircaotars.Diehl ard Miss Schwinn we^e amcrg five Germans wnrking hr the Maltese Aid Service, a German Catholic charity mission. who were cantured nearMarine S. Sgt. Frank E. Cius Jr.. 36. captured June 3, 1937, appeared not to salute the U.S. flag as he stepned off the plane. It may have been because of self-consciousness about his left arm, wrhich hurg limp at his side. Cius is the only POW to come through Clark so far whose home townAlso on the flight were five memb?rs of the Armed Forces Radio Television Network captured in Hue during the same offensive. They were Marine Capt. James V. Dibcmardo. 38, of Mission Viejo, Calif.; ArmySnec. 5 Jcse M. Astorga. 22. ofSan Diego, Calif.; Army S. Sgt. Jchn A. Deering, 30. of Durham. N.C.; Army S. Sgt. Harry L. Et'mueller, 29, of Plcas-antville, N.J., and M. Sgt. Donat Joseph Gouin, 44, of Lima,Ohio.There was no word when the next group of prisoners will be released. Complaints from North Vietnam and the Viet Ceng about cease-fire violations delayed the latest two groupsabout a week.The peace agreement signed in Paris Jan. 27 calls fcr allU.S. prisoner's to be out by March 28. the date by which ail U.S. forces are to quit Vietnam. The Communists have released U.S. prisoners but 286299freed SundayAmerican servicemen and civilians remain, in the bands of the North Vietnamese, Viet Congand Pathet Lao..* v.v/* . . fv, /.V«vr v v??,*. X'.v,v w.v«vikv•'.v.tJKvlt; - ' * l * - t « » ***« • * . • ■ m lM I » . lt;r . J- 4*i * • » * lt;lt;lt;lt;i t * rr *• ww m #* • » r « v i » i j rwr *TT« » (|| *» o • * I • a • « » ffl » t ■y,*.■.*of the Saigon government andthe Viet Cong.But on Monday, the Communist delegations walked out of a meeting and threatened to boycott future meetings until Saigon ups the number of prisoners it will release in the secondphase of prisoner exchanges,already a week behind schedule.The walkout by the North Vietnamese ar.d Viet Cong delegations pushed back on the agenda a proposal by the United States for a renewed joint appeal to field commanders to stop continued fighting, and discussion of surface to air missile batteries the United States and South Vietnamese say the North Vietnamese installed after the cease-fire.The United Statescu°ed the Communists of dragging their feet on a joint military investigation into the shooting down of an U.S. helicopter on a peacekeeping mission Feb. 16. near An Loc. 60 mi’ies north of Saigon. Five American crewmen were wounded, and one subsequently died. The U.S. delegation said it would pursue the investigation unilaterally and submit its findings to the Joint Military Commission. It said also it would assist the International Commission of Control and Supervision in its investigation of the incident.The international commissionreached unamimous agreementon its first two investigations, and the Canadian delegation pressed for an investigation ofthe alleged missile sites for athird time. Ambassador MichelGauvin of Car.ada told newsmen the walkout of the Communist delegations from the Joint Military Commission was“deplorable.”Gauvin said the International commissions report on a rock-throwing demonstration at Hue on Feb. 25 against the Nortjh Vietnamese Joint Military Com-miss.on delegation there “es-t a b 1 i s h e s what everybody knows.” Six North Vietnamese representatives were reported injured.“The finding.” said Gauvin. is naturally that there's a responsibility on all parties to protect the other parties.” Gauvin said the International Commission also sent a letter to the Joint Military Commission about the withdrawal of the North Vietnamese fieldteams from Hue andfollowing the Hue rock-throwing demonstration and a similar demonstration at Da Nang tlhesame- day.The second investigation involved heavy fighting immediately afier the cease-fire at the northern port of Sa Huyrb, which the Viet Cong reportedly soujdit to make one of its ports of entry to receive armamentsreplacements wdiich are permitted under terms of thecease-fire agreement.Gauvin said the 9a Huynh report failed to esiablldi mutfi outside the fact that the South Vietnamese were there when the team investigated and that townsfolk reported them there when the cease-fire took effect. 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