Word: vessey
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Supplementing Bush's statement, retired General John Vessey, the President's personal MIA/POW representative, just back from Hanoi, produced new photos and a Memorandum of Understanding in which Vietnamese officials agreed to "make available all museums that may contain U.S. MIA archival data" and promised access to display cases, microfiche files and other materials. "The important thing is not the material we brought back," Vessey emphasized. "The important thing is the material we expect...
Retired Army General John Vessey, who has been negotiating the question with Hanoi for five years, had what may be the last word. He told the committee that he too has a list -- of 135 unresolved cases -- but has uncovered no evidence that any Americans are being held in Indochina...
...made a trip to Hanoi, where, government officials grumble, he came close to violating the Logan Act, which forbids a private citizen to conduct foreign policy. Among other things, they say, he prematurely informed the Vietnamese about a forthcoming visit by an official emissary, General John Vessey, and talked about potential U.S. aid -- "major development projects," says one official -- beyond anything Vessey was authorized to discuss. Richard Childress, a former National Security Council official who dealt with both Perot and the Vietnamese, accuses Perot of "confusing the Vietnamese and the American people" by blundering into delicate negotiations that "he tried...
...just shows that like the rest of the American government, the Supreme Court has become politicized," said Jonathan B. Vessey '95. "Justices should be put on because of their ability, not because of their race, sex or political affiliation...
...requirements of the U.S. ((on MIAs, family reunification, human-rights abuses in the re-education camps)). But in the State Department there is no change. For example, I am not allowed to go beyond 25 miles of New York City when I am in the U.S. ((retired General John)) Vessey can come here and go everywhere. American Congressmen are free to go everywhere in Vietnam...