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These reports convinced the DIA's Tuttle, who had served as a naval aviator in Vietnam, that American POWS were still alive in Laos. He was also persuaded ; by a Dec. 30, 1980, satellite photo of the camp that showed a large "52" carved on the ground near the compound's perimeter. He thought it might mean B-52 for a bomber crew. Photo interpreters also pointed to what they believed was a "K," a standard distress signal pilots on the ground used, next to the 52. Other analysts who have seen the photo subsequently argue that...
...whether they house anything fishy -- like nuclear warheads. The Ministry of the People's Armed Forces apparently wants to stymie the talks between the U.S. and Pyongyang, but some North Korean diplomats have suggested its sights are set lower: all the Ministry want is to halt U.S.-Japanese naval maneuvers off the Korean Coast, which the brass has unilaterally construed as an unfair scare tactic...
...Carter, fresh off a dubious victory in Haiti that will apparently allow Raoul Cedras to remain in the country if not in power, announced that he had had a "very pleasant" conversation with Fidel Castro and hoped to pressure the Administration into making concessions. Bill Clinton, meanwhile, has Guantanamo Naval Base filled to capacity with tens of thousands of dissatisfied Cubans, a concentration camp that will cost millions in its first months alone...
...break. The two sides today attempted to bridge new gaps that arose over the weekend, with no reports of progress. The U.S. is complaining that North Korea suddenly won't allow previously agreed-to U.N. inspections of its nuke plants; Pyongyang is crying foul over a joint American-Japanese naval exercise off the Korean coast...
...safe havens" will try to get to the U.S. by that route, but others will not. Attorney General Janet Reno says those who choose not to go back to Cuba will be held at Guantanamo "indefinitely." That is a harsh ruling but an unavoidable one. If the naval station were to become a processing point for entry to the U.S., another wave of emigres would head straight...