THE BATTALION Page 6 College Station, Texas Wednesday, March 14, 1973 POWs Model T SAIGON CP)—When America’s highest-ranking diplomat in cap tivity returns home after five years, he’ll find his yellow and black Model T Ford parked in the driveway. friends said. “Peg Manhard uses it and the cat has had kittens in it twice. Phil should be home just in time for spring kittens.” He is to be released Friday by the Viet Cong. Still Purring, Awaits Arrival Close friends said they some times doubted that Philip W. Manhard would survive the grueling years as a captive of the Communists. But they said Manhard’s family always be lieved he’d be coming home and kept the classic vintage car “in perfect running order” waiting for his arrival. Manhard, 52, went to the for mer imperial capital of Hue in September 1967 as a senior U.S. adviser to South Vietnamese of ficials. He was in his two-story white French colonial home when the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong overran the city at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive. breathed easier because his med ical history included recurring treatment for foot infections. However, a few days later an other report arrived that Man- hard and the other prisoners had been taken off the truck and were seen marching north. u uuu l min Aicuiy. “She’d talk about Vietnam and POWs,” a friend recalled. “There wasn’t any subject you had to pussyfoot around with Peg and her children. You never had to avoid mentioning his name.” was embroiled crisis. Like most of the 20 or so Americans captured at Hue, his fate was unknown for at least a year. Then State Department of ficials obtained information that led them to believe he was still alive. “That car was Phil Manhard’s pride and joy, but his family hasn’t let it just sit around,” Manhard was next seen at a pagoda north of Hue being load ed onto a truck. His friends Manhard’s wife Margaret was always preparing for his return, friends said. She redid his study, kept the Model T running and Manhard joined the foreign service in February 1948 and was assigned to the Peking lan guage school and then to T’iench- ing, where he closed out the American consulate after the Communist takeover. A colleague recalled that he was briefly held under house arrest during the takeover. 1953 the North Korean p rioted,’ the colleague i, “Phil was the languagen He went into the campp tarily to negotiate with pij on their demands." In 1951, Manhard was assigned to Korea and two years later he From Korea, Manhard the Japanese language*! Tokyo. In 1962, he war deputy political adviser commander in chief of 111 es in the Pacific. 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