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...Reported by Georgia Harbison/New York, Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Mia Turner/Beijing
...time was ripe a year ago, when an interagency review unanimously advised recognition. But it was a congressional election year, and National Security Adviser Tony Lake, who handles the emotional MIA issue, vetoed the idea. On this go-round, still well before the 1996 presidential primaries, Lake signed on. Clinton simply checked a box on a decision memo and the deal was made. A senior Administration official says, "I don't have a sense that the President agonized over this...
Would the move backfire? While many families of MIA combatants felt betrayed, the White House knew that the bulk of Americans would approve. The most recent Gallup poll on the issue found that in the past two years, support for recognition has risen from 48% to 61%, with just 27% now opposed. The number of MIA "discrepancy cases"--airmen shot down over North Vietnam and still unaccounted for--is down to just 55 by official count, and most people seemed resigned to the idea that the fortunes of war are bound to leave a few mysteries. A day after Clinton...
...Reported by Hannah Bloch and Dean Fischer/Washington, John Colmey/Hong Kong and Mia Turner/Beijing
...unanimous recommendation of his top advisers and with the backing of key legislators, including Republican Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran and former POW. Normalization, said Clinton, would further U.S. diplomatic and economic interests and facilitate an accounting of Americans still missing in action. The American Legion, mia groups and many Republicans, among them Senate majority leader Bob Dole, protested...