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...Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs is befogged by mixed political motives and overzealous staff members, but it has two perfectly plain questions to answer: Were any American prisoners unaccounted for when the U.S. pulled out of Southeast Asia in 1973? Are any alive there today? Opening two days of hearings, Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, the chairman, said the committee had gathered information indicating that "some Americans remained alive in Indochina after Operation Homecoming" in 1973, when North Vietnam handed back 591 prisoners. He said an additional 133, later lowered to 80, were unaccounted for, though there...
...ancients used to say, the war is not over as long as the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated...
...year-old Yeltsin has felt secure enough about his hold on power to reach across the generation gap and select ministers and advisers for his team who are in their late 30s and early 40s. They represent a new Russia, too young to be burdened by memories of Stalin, old enough to have learned during the detente era to be unafraid of the outside world...
...Leverett House continues to dominate the Harvard Intramural Straus Cup competition, it just may join that select group of teams worthy of being called a dynasty...
DeLone, who was ranked as high as 95th in theworld last year, made her announcement just as theteam was about to select captains for the 1992-93squad...