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...marks a halting step forward in the U.S. attitude toward Vietnam. In the two years since Saigon's liberation, the U.S. has vetoed three U.N. applications from Vietnam, and has steadily maintained its trade embargo. The Vietnamese have made efforts to meet America halfway--delivering the bodies of American servicemen this spring and promising to intensify efforts to find the 800 Americans still listed as missing in action--and the Carter administration seems sincere in its desire to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam...
...banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...
...same day that President Carter authorized the Defense Department to review the less-than-honorable discharges of 432,000 Viet Nam War servicemen, John Baugh, 32, of Boise, Idaho, achieved the distinction of becoming the Army's last draftee. While a member of the Idaho National Guard in 1970, Baugh was told to cut his long hair. His answer was to wear a short wig to company drills. The military's retort was to order him to active duty. For the past seven years, Baugh has been fighting the Army. This month he lost his last battle...
While Jimmy Carter was outlining his foreign policy goals at the U.N., the first official U.S. mission to Hanoi was making good on his campaign promises to improve relations with the Communist government and seek information about the 771 U.S. servicemen still missing in Indochina. With the delegation was TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott. The following is from his reports...
...addition, the Vietnamese disclosed that they had found a 13th pilot's remains, and they said they would step up the search for other bodies. Spurred by their success in Hanoi, the Americans flew at week's end to Vientiane in search of information about U.S. servicemen who disappeared in Laos during...