Word: vietnam
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WASHINGTON -- Senator Robert Smith of New Hampshire, who believes that U.S. soldiers may still be alive in Vietnam, has asked Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate what he calls "potential federal criminal violations" by 10 former and current high officials at the State Department, the Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency. In a letter obtained by TIME, Smith, former vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, charges that the 10 officials withheld information from him and lied to his committee...
After three days of talks in Hanoi, the U.S. suggested the deployment of three State Department officers to help investigate the fates of MIAs after the Vietnam War. The Vietnamese government, hoping to reverse an American economic embargo, agreed in principle. The U.S. delegation would be the country's first extended diplomatic presence in Hanoi since...
...change. And they remained so throughout days of intense negotiations in windowless rooms in the Pentagon. Indeed, they treated the entire debate like a national emergency. Amid discussions with Aspin, they met three times on July 2, more than anyone remembers their convening in one day during the entire Vietnam War. One chief referred to homosexuals as "fags," and the Marine Corps Commandant, General Carl Mundy, passed out antigay video tapes at meetings. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Colin Powell, while talking cooperation with the White House, instigated behind-the-scenes opposition to the President. In a speech...
...York or Washington but in Kennebunk, Maine. The paper in question isn't an influential national daily with a staff of thousands and a news room the size of an airplane hangar, but a small weekly struggling to survive. The issues aren't Watergate or the Vietnam war, but whether the town should build a water tower behind a local church, and whether the school bus should change its route in order to pick up Herman Cohen's children...
...After hearing the concerns of anti-Vietnam War student protests, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) votes to withdraw all curricular and academic status from ROTC, Cadets could now only participate...