Word: mia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that ROSS PEROT has agreed to testify next week before the Senate committee investigating the MIA issue, many families of missing veterans will tune in eagerly. They are likely to be disappointed. Senate sources say Perot, who has claimed to have evidence of live MIAS, had nothing persuasive to offer in the six-hour deposition he gave them in Dallas last month. Instead, they say, he spent most of his time complaining about his relationship with George Bush, calling the President a fair-weather friend who wouldn't return his phone calls...
Though Bush and Quayle were both stumping too, their efforts to portray the Clinton-Gore team as liberals in moderate clothing were constantly deflected by questions about their own prospects and record in office. In a week when Bush faced hecklers at a gathering of POW and MIA families, quayle gritted his teeth and denied that he was on the brink of being dropped from the team. When he turned up on CNN'S Larry King Live to repeat that line, however, he seemed to provide his own escape clause. "Believe me, if I thought that I was hurting...
...long ago, and more than 1.3 million pages have already been shown to members and staff of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs without any convincing results. Key sections of some internal Pentagon memorandums have already been leaked, and although they reflect "sloppy" and "unprofessional" running of the mia office, according to individuals charged with studying them, they add nothing substantive to the search for surviving Americans...
Judging solely from the bottom line, Perot's record probably would not qualify him for a performance bonus. General Motors -- bloodied, but unbowed -- only now is facing up to the need for far-reaching internal reform. No living MIA has ever been found in Vietnam. Texas enacted some of Perot's educational reforms (no pass, no play; reducing class size), but on Friday night far more students are still cheering touchdowns than prepping for calculus exams. But embedded in these crusades are important -- and not always reassuring -- clues as to how Perot might behave if handed the toughest challenge...
...SPECIAL SENATE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING THE FATE OF American mias has made little progress in its inquiry into those who prey on families of missing service personnel. Chairman John Kerry promised that the committee would probe possible fraud and corruption by entrepreneurs who collect huge sums from families but have yet to find a live MIA. One reason for the stalemate: ex- Congressman BILL HENDON, who collected tens of thousands of dollars as an MIA activist. Hendon, who should be a subject of the investigation, has been put on the committee staff by Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, the vice...