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Colonel Charles Shelton was the last official Vietnam War POW: the one missing American still designated as being alive by the Pentagon. Shot down during a reconnaissance mission over northern Laos on April 29, 1965, the 33- year-old pilot managed to parachute safely from his RF-101C jet and make radio contact with his home base after he hit the ground. But he was grabbed by Pathet Lao fighters and vanished. Unable to verify his fate, the Air Force listed Shelton as "known captured alive" for 29 years...
...world today is substantially better," he said. "People must be feeding tranquilizers to those people in Northern Ireland and Haiti...
Protestant pro-British militants in Northern Ireland laid down their arms in what may be the final act in setting up a durable peace in the region. The paramilitaries announced that they will "universally cease all operational hostilities," effective midnight tonight. They also went further than the I.R.A., which first declared a cease-fire on Aug. 31; the Protestant forces apologized for the hundreds of deaths they caused. The Irish government and the I.R.A. quickly embraced the overture...
Yielding to the furious opposition of historians, environmentalists and even some members of Congress, the Walt Disney Co. abandoned its plans to build a sprawling American history theme park near hallowed Civil War battlefields in northern Virginia. The company said it would look for another site, also in Virginia...
Heaney was born on a farm in Northern Ireland in 1939. He graduated with first class honors from Queen's University in Belfast...