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. Before
to Vietnam, he served as
director for regional
the State Department's
Bureau.
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