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Until last week, the Clinton Administration was moving with all deliberate speed toward normalizing relations with Vietnam and lifting the U.S. trade embargo. Retired General John Vessey, who has served the three successive Administrations in POW-MIA discussions with Hanoi, departed for Vietnam last week. His mission had been to assess whether the POW-MIA dispute had been sufficiently resolved to allow normalization to proceed. Now Vessey must also try to solve the mystery of the Quang report. And no matter what Vessey concludes, there is a good chance that many Americans, never keen about normalization in the first place...
Though some students have been unruly in somepast Model U.N. festivities, there were no majordisciplinary problems this time, according toJonathan B. Vessey '95, head of the SpecialPolitical committee, who said the students were"amazingly quiet...
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...