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When the reevalution committee first introduced the package, a few council members attempted to walk out and destroy the quorum of 45 members. The members said they were upset they had so little time to consider such an overhauled document...
That motion failed, but the bank was able to win some money from Epstein. According to a document obtained by The Crimson, Epstein will pay $13,000 a year in equal monthly installments to Manufacturers Bank. At that rate, the $2.7 million will be paid off in 207 years...
PERHAPS SOMETHING WAS LOST IN THE TRANSLAtion. The Russian document suggesting there were 600 more Americans in North Vietnam than were admitted by the , Vietnamese prompted General John Vessey, the President's special envoy on POWs, to fly to Hanoi to check again. "It is an authentic Russian document," he reported, but added, "we know a great deal of the information ((in it)) is inaccurate." A faded ledger provided by Vietnam -- and supported by U.S. documents -- shows far fewer POWs than the report claims. Hanoi also disputes the document's assertion that its Politburo met on a certain...
Morris, whose skepticism about Vietnamese intentions hardly makes him an enthusiastic supporter of normalization, has legitimate academic credentials. "I know it's an authentic document," insists Morris, who reads Russian and is a research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. "These files were not for anyone else to read except the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." Experts in the Pentagon and Congress remain skeptical. "We think it's an authentic document," says a Pentagon official involved in POW affairs, "but we have a lot of questions about the data in it." Defense Intelligence Agency analysts note...
That could explain some of the more obvious errors, including inaccurate descriptions of the North Vietnamese military-prison system and some badly garbled American names that do not correspond to the names of any U.S. MIAs. Indeed, a covering letter on the document indicates that Quang, who at the time was commander of the 4th Military Region in central South Vietnam, was reporting to his superiors on the success of his mission. He emphasized his plans for Operation Ba Bo, a program of "extermination" of South Vietnamese officials. In this context, Pentagon and congressional experts say, Quang may have engaged...