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THE WEEKWORLD, Page 20Hanoi Show-and-Tell
To prove there are no POWs, Vietnam showers Senators with grisly
artifacts
Determined to put to rest chronic suspicions that they are
hiding live American POWs, Vietnamese officials pulled out all
stops to cooperate with a visiting delegation from the U.S.
Senate. Not only were Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and his
colleagues permitted to wander freely about the Vietnamese
military headquarters known as the Citadel, they were buried in
previously withheld documents and paraphernalia from dead and
captured Americans. Included among the wartime artifacts handed
over to Kerry were a handful of Social Security cards, a charred
diary, flight suits worn by downed pilots, and a helmet said to
have been left behind by Senator John McCain, a member of
Kerry's subcommittee on MIA-POW affairs who was a prisoner in
Vietnam for five years. Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet said his goal
was to "resolve all aspects of the issue of missing Americans"
so that full diplomatic relations could be restored. Kerry said
he would tell President George Bush that the Vietnamese had been
"forthcoming." That may be the signal Bush is seeking to lift
economic sanctions before he leaves office in January. "My hope
is that the President will listen carefully to the arguments for
why there ought to be a U.S. response," Kerry said. "You cannot
make this a one-way street forever."