Word: mia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON POW/MIA AFFAIRS WILL HEAR testimony this week from relatives of missing American servicemen who claim they have been defrauded of millions of dollars by MIA HUNTERS, who in some cases promised to bring the missing men home alive. But the committee is running out of time to investigate such claims. Lawyers for several of the MIA hunters in question have raised legal objections that may tie up the probe until the committee's mandate expires...
...dead and captured Americans. Included among the wartime artifacts handed over to Kerry were a handful of Social Security cards, a charred diary, flight suits worn by downed pilots, and a helmet said to have been left behind by Senator John McCain, a member of Kerry's subcommittee on MIA-POW affairs who was a prisoner in Vietnam for five years. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet said his goal was to "resolve all aspects of the issue of missing Americans" so that full diplomatic relations could be restored. Kerry said he would tell President George Bush that the Vietnamese...
...very often. Casnoff lip-synchs more than 20 classic Sinatra recordings, from early Big Band numbers to '60s hits like That's Life. Director James Sadwith uses the music shrewdly and liberally, often as background for narrative montages (You Make Me Feel So Young accompanies his courtship of Mia Farrow). It's the most lavishly entertaining TV movie of the year...
Then there was the alleged plot against his life by drug lords. In a separate controversy, his long feud with Washington over its handling of the MIA issue, Perot accused Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, of a nefarious cover-up. In running his successful computer empire, Perot occasionally subjected employees to polygraph tests. Last week seven defectors from his volunteer network charged that they had been targets of improper credit investigations. This pattern is familiar to those who worked with Perot long before he grew politically ambitious. "He keeps so much in his head," says...
...archives, including photos of artifacts such as dog tags, uniform name strips, helmets, flight suits, eyeglasses, ID cards, class and wedding rings and many other personal items. "At one point," recalls principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Carl Ford, "I suddenly thought, wow, the Rosetta stone of the MIA issue...