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Letters hint at fatal kidney ailment from POW camp
Mrs. Ruth Bomar of Mesa Arizona says a cryptic four letter note from her husband Lt Col Jack W Bomar a POW in North Vietnam implies a kidney ailment that could kill him The 1967 downed Air Force navigator was allowed a one year waiver despite glomerulonephritis and now his wife seeks medical help through Red Cross and U S officials in Paris Washington and Hanoi while publicizing the claim to press North Vietnamese officials declined to comment and the U S delegation called the act callous
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