0 POW: Garwood aided Viet Cong in war The Michigan Daily-Saturday, November 15, 1980-Page 5 Reagan key to better From AP and UPI CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.-A helicop- ter pilot, called to the stand as lead-off witness in the court-martial of Marine Pfc Robert Garwood testified yester- day' that Garwood carried a rifle and spied on other Americans while being held captive by the communists. Chief Warrant Officer Francis Anton, who spent more than five years in Viet- namese prison camps, was the first witness in Garwood's much-delayed rial-the first court-martial on charges of desertion and collaboration since the end of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Anton fidgeted nervously as he told of encountering Garwood in two prisoner- of-war camps. QUESTIONED BY chief prosecutor Maj Werner Hellmer, Anton said Gar- wood lived apart from other POWs and acted as an interpreter for the enemy. P Anton, who once said he told a dying, comrade in Vietnam he would one day repay Garwood. on his comrade's behalf, said the Marine private not only adopted the uniform of the enemy and carried one of their guns, but that he also stood guard over fellow American prisoners in a jungle POW camp. Garwood, a balding 34-year-old In- diana native, is on trial before a jury of five Marine officers on charges of 'desertion, collaboration, trying to en- tice American troops to surrender and mistreating two fellow prisoners. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life imprisonment and made to forfeit $143,000 in back pay now being held in escrow. ANTON SAID he saw Garwood wearing an enemy uniform without any insignia of rank and that a group of POWs once found Garwood spying out- side their tent. A dark-haired career Army officer with bushy eyebrows, Anton said under cross-examination by defense attorney John Lowe that he never doubted Gar- wood wanted to return to the United States. Prosecutors have indicated that part of the foundation for conviction on the desertion charge would be that Gar- wood remained voluntarily in Vietnam. "I BELIEVED all along that if they offered him to go home on any one day he would have gone," Anton said in response to a question by Lowe. Earlier yesterday, in opening statements, Garwood's lawyers said they would show the 34-year-old defen- dant from Adams, Ind., was driven in- sane by torture "too terrible to believe" after his capture by the Viet Cong on a lonely road outside DaNang in 1965. ' They said psychiatrists would testify Garwood was unable to understand his conduct by the time he encountered other Americans, such as Anton, in the late 1960s. THE PROSECUTION said it would rely on the testimony of former POW's. "Gentlemen, they were there," Maj. Werner Hellmer told the court-martial panel of five Marine officers, all of them Vietnam veterans. Garwood spent nearly 14 years with the communists before returning to the United States in March 1979. He 'arranged his own repatriation, -repor- tedly by smuggling a note to a foreigner in Hanoi saying he wanted to come home. Garwood disappeared at age 19 while driving a jeep in the DaNang area in September 1965. Anton, who is stationed at Fort Dix, N.J., was captured when his helicopter was shot down in January 1968. He was a-captive for 62 months. relations, MOSCOW (UPI)-A senior foreign policy adviser to Ronald Reagan said yesterday the Soviet Union understands the SALT-I treaty will not be ratified in its present form and is looking to the president-elect to break the deadlock in superpower relations. Brent Scowcroft said three days of talks with Soviet officials convinced him the Kremlin views its U.S. relations as "seriously bad" and would welcome any overtures from the new administration. Scowcroft was a member of a delegation, headed by former U.S. am- bassador Scranton, that visited Moscow at the invitation of Soviet foreign af- Soviets say fairs specialists. Scowcroft,. wl'o is believed to be Reagan's top choice to become director of the National Security Council, said: "What I'll take back is that they feel U.S.-Soviet relations are seriously bad. But they are prepared to discuss those relations and try to see where we go from here." The delegation members said they repeatedly made it clear to the Soviets that SALT-II would not be passed in its present form. But they said there was no indication that the Soviets would be willing to renegotiate the treaty, or abandon it and begin negotiating SALT-III, as Reagan has insisted. AP Pho CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER Francis Anton leaves the courtroom yester- day after testifying against Marine Pfc. Robert Garwood, who is facing court martial charges for desertion during the Vietnam War. 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