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GRAPEVINE, Page 19
By JOHN GREENWALD
Home at Last
It is the biggest breakthrough in resolving the fate of
America's 2,266 Vietnam War POW/MIAs since 1973. The U.S. has
acquired 4,500 black-and-white photos of dead Americans taken
by Vietnamese combat photographers during the war. While some
80% of the grisly photos are duplicate shots of the same
individuals, the material has already helped determine what
happened to several soldiers who were listed as missing. Armed
with the photos, special presidential envoy GENERAL JOHN VESSEY
flew to Hanoi last week to try to persuade the Vietnamese to
open up the rest of a cache of photos, dog tags and other items
that could help identify missing Americans.
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
Flexing his rhetorical muscles before the
Vice-Presidential debate, DAN QUAYLE explained what he called
the essence of the Republican campaign. "If you give a person
a fish," he said, "they'll fish for a day. But if you train a
person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime." Besides misquoting
the proverb (it's ". . . feed him for a day" and ". . . feed him
for a lifetime"), Quayle was stealing a page from an unlikely
book: Democrat Michael Dukakis recited the lines often during
his 1988 campaign. Not to worry. The saying has been a favorite
with orators since the ancient Chinese.
Cashing In
Republican Party Chairman Rich Bond loves to fly, and it
shows. Bond was the only member of the G.O.P. high command to
ride first class on the 8:15 a.m. TWA flight from St. Louis to
Washington after the first presidential debate. Seems he took
a lot of heat for it from the bigwigs back in coach class,
including White House chief of staff James Baker, presidential
pollster and official campaign chairman Robert Teeter and Budget
Director Dick Darman. "I've visited 35 states since February,"
Bond says, "and I've accumulated several hundred thousand
frequent-flyer miles, which we're using to upgrade me at no
expense to the party or the campaign."
Hell No, We Won't Go
Bush administration experts fear that a wider war could
erupt at any time in the former Yugoslavia. But COLIN POWELL,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has forbidden his
generals to prepare any U.S. contingency plans. Without the
plans, he figures, there can be no U.S. involvement in the war.
One from the Heart
Attorneys who contend that Democratic patriarch CLARK
CLIFFORD, 85, is too ill to stand trial for his alleged role in
the B.C.C.I. scandal could well be right. When Clifford sought
heart surgery at the Washington Hospital Center in July, doctors
quietly determined that his heart was too weak to withstand an
operation. "He has practically no heart muscle left," says a
medical source. Clifford was later hospitalized briefly for
internal bleeding. His lawyers now plan to ask a New York judge
to dismiss the charges against him on the ground that the rigors
of a trial could cause a fatal heart attack.
CAMPAIGN QUIZ
Q
Two weeks before the election, President Bush trails Bill
Clinton by about 15 percentage points. In which postwar races
did polls show these results two weeks before the vote?
A: Democratic incumbent 45%
Republican challenger 42%
B: Republican incumbent 44%
Democratic challenger 49%
C: Democratic incumbent 45%
Republican challenger 50%
D: Democratic 51%
Republican 45%
A
A: Carter-Reagan, 1980
B: Ford-Carter, 1976
C: Truman-Dewey, 1948
D: Kennedy-Nixon, 1960