Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, some may argue that the bill does not do enough for the Amerasians. After the French left Indochina, for example, they took 25,000 Eurasians with them. And those left behind with even the slightest trace of French blood were given the option of French citizenship when they turned 21. Perhaps America should be as liberal towards Amerasians...
...When one young newspaperman tried to tell a tableful of war-wise colleagues that 5,000 refugees had been trapped and shelled by government forces-the essence of a rebel propaganda broadcast-the graybeards picked the story apart. Only a handful of bodies had been found. There was no trace of large numbers of others. If 5,000 people had been there, they had been made to disappear without leaving a shred of proof...
...ADDITION to wanting to trace the family's effects on the country. Wills wants to trace the effects on the remaining son. The "imprisonment" referred to in the title mainly applies to Ted, and Wills reveals that the term occurred to him as he watched Ted noticeably tense up while shaking hands with a woman. As if doing penance for a nation's (and a family's) mistreatment of him, Wills shows Ted trapped by each of the elements of the Kennedy mystique: sex, family, image, charisma and power. The other Kennedys died in the splendor of youth, before...
...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...
...million in back taxes and $7.5 million in administrative fees to Switzerland and $550,000 in fines to France. But far from changing its procedures after Edwards made his allegations, the SEC investigators charge, Citibank merely altered its bookkeeping methods to make the practice harder to trace...