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- <text id=91TT2007>
- <title>
- Sep. 09, 1991: An MIA Breakthrough?
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 09, 1991 Power Vacuum
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
- An MIA Breakthrough?
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> Postcoup reforms in the Soviet Union may solve a
- long-standing mystery: What happened to the thousands of U.S.
- servicemen listed as missing in acin the Korean War and World
- War II? Over the years, reports have surfaced that some of the
- 8,177 men missing in Korea and significant numbers of the 78,000
- soldiers unaccounted for in Europe wound up in the Soviet Union.
- POW/ MIA organizations see positive signs in the appointment of
- Vadim Bakatin as head of the KGB. Bakatin is a reformer who, as
- Interior Minister, pledged to search secret files that are
- believed to exist on misplaced Americans.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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