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- NATION, Page 43American NotesINVESTIGATIONSDeja Vu All Over Again
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- Hope -- and conspiracy theories -- can nurture the most
- enduring myths. Although after a decade of intense investigation
- the United States still has no firm evidence that American
- servicemen survive in Vietnam, a new report released last week
- has rekindled the emotional issue once again. Prepared at the
- behest of North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms, a new
- special minority study from the Senate Foreign Relations
- Committee asserts that a 1974 government analysis concluded that
- "several hundred living POW/MIAs were still held captive in
- Southeast Asia." The Pentagon categorically denied the
- existence of the analysis. "While we have yet to find conclusive
- evidence of the existence of live prisoners," said a Pentagon
- statement, "we cannot rule out the possibility . . . and we are
- pledged to take appropriate action should evidence be obtained."
- So far, however, there is no such proof.
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