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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17Threatening a Letter
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- By JANICE CASTRO
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- President Bush's desire to speed up normalization of
- relations with Vietnam hit a snag just before Senator John
- Kerry's delegation left for Hanoi. Kerry was going to deliver
- a letter to the Vietnamese all but lifting the economic embargo.
- But ANN MILLS GRIFFITHS, executive director of the National
- League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in
- Southeast Asia, threatened to go very public with her opposition
- on the eve of the mission. Griffiths objects to normalizing
- relations before a fuller accounting of American prisoners and
- casualties is made. The White House backed down, substituting
- an innocuous letter of greeting.
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