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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...
...research associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs. "These files were not for anyone else to read except the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." Experts in the Pentagon and Congress remain skeptical. "We think it's an authentic document," says a Pentagon official involved in POW affairs, "but we have a lot of questions about the data in it." Defense Intelligence Agency analysts note a certain informality in the text, suggesting it might actually be a transcription of an oral briefing by General Quang...
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...