Word: mia
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Most of the "bush vets," as they've come to be known, prefer it that way, having chosen to shun virtually all human contact. Many returned home only fleetingly before retreating into tropical solitude. "My family thinks I'm an MIA in the U.S.A.," says Glenn Hayne, 44, who made it back to Oakland in February 1968, after a tour full of fire fights and body bags with the Tenth Cavalry, only to drift to Mexico and then Hawaii. He supported himself by growing the powerful local variety of marijuana known as pakalolo but, after a recent crackdown by drug...
Most surprising for the Crimson was the success of the relay teams, which are all new because of graduated stars such as Sheila Findley and Mia Costello. But Hutchinson, Wriede, Kelly and Eva Romas claimed first in the 800 freestyle, and Estes replaced Romas in the same lineup to capture second in the 200 medley relay. Hutchinson, sophomore Laura Alonso and freshmen Cristina Cregan and Jennifer Chertow anchored the Crimson's second-place finish in the 200 freestyle...
This new policy toward Southeast Asia will have important effects on the U.S. In recognizing the Hun Sen government, Baker said the U.S. would initiate further talks with the Vietnamese. Perhaps these talks can finally end the POW-MIA confusion which has caused so much pain for so many Americans whose relatives and friends never returned...
...There is no logic to this," says Douglas Pike, a retired State Department analyst who assiduously read accounts of every reported MIA sighting but was never able to come up with verification by a second source. A resident of northern Vietnam, released after 13 years in re-education camps, is equally incredulous. "Americans? There are no Americans here. I never heard of any." The Vietnamese people long ago gave up looking for their own missing. Bodies decompose quickly in the subtropical climate. Although no U.S. official will say so publicly, the widespread conviction is that there are no more live...
Second team namings included: Duncan (500 freestyle), Kelley (200 butterfly), Findley (200 backstroke), senior Mia Costello (100, 200 breaststroke), junior Nicole Engh (200, 400 individual medley), junior Jill Hutchinson (200 freestyle) and the 400 freestyle relay team...