Word: mia
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...former congressman who claims that American MIAs are being held prisoner 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War is now getting official U.S. attention. A Pentagon official arrived in Hanoi today to investigate the charges by Billy Hendon, a onetime Republican lawmaker from North Carolina who had briefly handcuffed himself Saturday to the gate of a U.S. office in Hanoi that deals with MIA reports. Though no U.S. official has publicly given credence to reports of MIAs still held captive, Hendon says a contact in Thailand told him an intelligence source saw the prisoners in February. He refused...
...Reported by Sandra Burton/Washington and Jaime A. FlorCruz and Mia Turner/Beijing
...brought both partners tantalizingly close to consummating their ticklish relationship. Clinton's February 1994 decision to lift the 19-year-old Vietnam trade embargo paved the way for full normalization, a move for which the State Department has been quietly preparing ever since. But goaded by a core of MIA families capitalizing on the President's reluctance to alienate those who lost relatives in a war he avoided fighting, the White House has now brought the pas de deux to a halt...
Critics find the strategy puzzling, especially since the MIA issue is increasingly seen as a phantasm. Allegations that the Vietnamese withhold data have been all but discredited by a wave of assistance from Hanoi. Of the remaining 2,211 mias, the number who were last seen alive but have never been accounted for has dwindled from 196 to 55, and progress has been made in reducing the number of other outstanding priority cases. And although Vietnam has been deceitful in the past, U.S. officials have applauded its cooperation in the past year. "What can we be cheated on at this...
When Francis discovers Thomas' illegal operation, he offers to let him off the hook in return for a small favor: going to Exotica to talk to his favorite dancer, Christina (Mia Kirshner). She is the light to which all characters are attracted, including the club's owner Zoe (a very pregnant Arsinee Khanjian) and her ex-lover Eric (Elias Koteas), the club's deejay...