Word: pow
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...Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate what he calls "potential federal criminal violations" by 10 former and current high officials at the State Department, the Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency. In a letter obtained by TIME, Smith, former vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, charges that the 10 officials withheld information from him and lied to his committee...
Congress is divided over the issue in some surprising ways, with veteran hawks and doves swapping roles. The Republican leader in the Senate, Bob Dole, is calling for military action, but former Vietnam naval aviator -- and POW -- Republican John McCain is a leader of the opposition to bombing. Many members of Congress are calling for clear explanations from Clinton. Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and one of Capitol Hill's leading military experts, says, "There ought to be a clear exit point. We ought to know how we're going...
...gothic. The thematic concerns are more universal: growing up, facing down everyday demons, coming to terms with the past. In the current plot (there have been several variations over the years), the central character is a boy of four when his long-missing father returns home from a German POW camp. The father, presumed dead, finds his wife in the embrace of another man, quarrels with him and shoots him. The frantic parents instruct their son never to speak of this event to anyone...
Unless non-Americans are included, the analysts say, it is not possible to come up with a total of 1,205 American candidates for POW status. Apart from MIAs who the Pentagon is all but certain died in combat, there are only 135 so-called discrepancy cases today. After analyzing the Quang report, Robert Sheetz, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency's POW office, wrote in an internal Pentagon memo that the "DIA believes the number 1,205 could be an accurate accounting of total prisoners held" if foreigners working as U.S. agents are included. But, Sheetz added...
Until last week, the Clinton Administration was moving with all deliberate speed toward normalizing relations with Vietnam and lifting the U.S. trade embargo. Retired General John Vessey, who has served the three successive Administrations in POW-MIA discussions with Hanoi, departed for Vietnam last week. His mission had been to assess whether the POW-MIA dispute had been sufficiently resolved to allow normalization to proceed. Now Vessey must also try to solve the mystery of the Quang report. And no matter what Vessey concludes, there is a good chance that many Americans, never keen about normalization in the first place...