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Hope -- and conspiracy theories -- can nurture the most enduring myths. Although after a decade of intense investigation the United States still has no firm evidence that American servicemen survive in Vietnam, a new report released last week has rekindled the emotional issue once again. Prepared at the behest of North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms, a new special minority study from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asserts that a 1974 government analysis concluded that "several hundred living POW/MIAs were still held captive in Southeast Asia." The Pentagon categorically denied the existence of the analysis. "While we have...
...homelessness that haunts 10 million to 13 million low-income families. As for helping the middle class, the government should act as it did after World War II and offer low-interest mortgages to young families. Beginning in 1944, the Veterans Administration guaranteed 5 million home loans to ex-servicemen with no down payment required and a maximum interest rate of 4%. If something similar were done today, many more families could both buy a house and spend time with the kids. One Gallup poll shows that only 13% of working mothers want to work full time, although...
PROPAGANDA MILL. Saddam's flacks are telling radio and TV audiences that American soldiers "are drinking alcohol, eating pork and practicing prostitution." A clandestine radio station claims that 40% of U.S. servicemen are infected with the AIDS virus...
...embargo against Saddam to all air traffic flying in and out of Iraq. In addition to announcing the expulsion of military attaches assigned to the Iraqi embassy in Paris, Mitterrand declared he would send an extra 4,000 troops to the gulf, upping the total number of French servicemen in the region to 7,800. He was not alone in answering Bush's call for additional support: Britain dispatched 6,000 more soldiers, Canada will send a squadron of 12 CF-18 jets, and Italy pledged eight Tornado fighters and a frigate...
...definitely plan on standing behind our soldiers," said Harry Wilson '93, a club member and organizer of the campaign. "We're trying to show support for the hostages and servicemen in the Gulf fighting for our interests...