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...means did London get everything it wanted. Lacking an effective airborne early-warning system to protect its naval task force from surprise air attacks, the British asked to borrow an undisclosed number of U.S. AWACS. Washington refused on the grounds that American servicemen, who would be necessary to man the aircraft, should not become involved in the conflict...
...British were scheduled to install a comparable radar system in their Nimrod Mark 3 reconnaissance aircraft. About six weeks ago, London asked Washington for the loan of an AW ACS to repair that important deficiency, but the Reagan Administration refused. The reason: Washington's insistence that American servicemen, who would be necessary to operate the system, not become involved in the South Atlantic battle...
...innocent; the Kansas City Star and Times, for jointly pinpointing construction flaws that led to the collapse of a walkway killing 113 people at the city's Hyatt Regency Hotel; the Detroit News, for investigations indicating that the Navy had misreported the causes of death of several servicemen; Humorist Art Buchwald, for commentary...
Among the U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam who are still missing, all but eight are known to be dead. The Vietnamese, who have handed over the remains of only 74 Americans, insist that they have no more bodies to return. The U.S. admits that hundreds of dead servicemen are hard to trace because they were lost at sea or in the jungles of Laos, or were buried by peasants in unmarked graves. But the U.S. delegation, honoring a campaign commitment of President Reagan, called on the Vietnamese to give a better accounting of the missing servicemen...
...rapprochement with the West. Declared Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach: "We seek normal diplomatic relations with the U.S., not financial aid. Nobody here ever thought that normalization would come to us via Santa Claus." Though the Vietnamese chided the Americans for attempting to "politicize" the problem of the missing servicemen, they did agree to send a team of experts to the U.S. Joint Casualty Resolution Center in Hawaii, where bodies of American servicemen returned in the past were sent for identification...