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they s tream ed o ff a c h a rte r f l ig h t at A ndrew s A ir Force Base outside Washington. They appeared tired but most sm iled as they le ft the plane, waving to the greeting party. Relatives in the crowd held up signs, including One that said, “ Daddy, Daddy, I Need You.” Most o f the g roup c a rr ie d luggage; m any w ore casual clothes and were ill-p repared for the chilly evening weather. One w om an was in a wheelchair. The group declined to speak with reporters at Andrews, but some ind iv idua ls spoke freely at a hotel later. “ I was damned mad about the w ho le th in g ," sa id Jack ftinehart, 37, of Stover, Mo., an electrical engineer. R inehart, a designer o f a ircond itione r m otors, spent a l­ most the entire time in the U.S. Embassy at Kuwait City where he said he was “ camp plumber” and lost 25 pounds on a diet of tuna and rice. D w ig h t D u rm on o f F a ye t­ teville, Tenn., said he was not mistreated in Iraq. But “ people are scared in Ira q ,” he said, clutching the hand of his wife, Kathy. “ Everybody has mental stress co m ing ou t o f th e re ,” said Durmon, who declined to say what he did in Iraq. Both Durm on and R inehart said President Bush was doing well in the crisis, Rinehart ob­ serving, “ 1 th ink George Bush and the a d m in is tra tio n have handled this beautifully.”