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- DIED. James Rowe, 51, Army colonel and chief of the Army
- division of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group that
- provides training and logistical support to the Philippine
- military; after at least two gunmen ambushed his car; in Quezon
- City. Philippine officials blamed the killing on Communist
- rebels, who oppose U.S. bases in the country. A highly decorated
- Viet Nam veteran, Rowe spent from 1963 to 1968 in a cage as a
- prisoner of war. He recounted that ordeal in his 1971 book, Five
- Years to Freedom.
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