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- THE WEEK, Page 15WORLDEt Cetera
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- NOT SO FAST
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- The British government's abrupt announcement that it would
- close 31 of the country's 50 active coal mines seemed at first
- only a political blunder. Industry and Trade Minister Michael
- Heseltine's decision last October drew public and parliamentary
- fury that forced him to announce that, on second thought, only
- 10 mines would be closed in the short term. In the judgment of
- Britain's High Court, even that order was "unlawful and
- irrational," since Heseltine failed to consult with miners and
- unions as required by law. The government must start its closure
- proceedings all over again.
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- LOST IN CHINA
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- After all the fuss over possible POWs in Russia and Vietnam,
- a U.S. Senator just back from Pyongyang says hundreds of American
- servicemen captured during the Korean War were sent to China and
- never returned. Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, vice
- chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs,
- said, "Every single Korean official we talked to confirmed" that
- U.S. prisoners of war had been sent to China. "They weren't
- returned," he said. Beijing has repeatedly denied that China
- kept any American POWs except for 21 who asked to stay.
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