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<text id=91TT1832>
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Aug. 19, 1991: American Notes:MIAs
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 19, 1991 Hostages:Why Now? Who's Next?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 23
American Notes
MIAS
Four Down, One to Go
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<p> For most Americans, the Vietnam War is a painful memory; for
families of the 2,273 servicemen listed as missing in action, it
is a wound that will not heal. Hope flickered for many of those
families last month, when five grainy photos purporting to show
surviving U.S. soldiers in Southeast Asia surfaced. Last week
the Pentagon disputed the authenticity of four of them, which
turned out to have been clipped from Soviet magazine articles
published over the past two years. A bearded man in a white
shirt shown in one photo was actually a Soviet baker working at
a South Pole scientific station. The men shown in the other
photos were also Soviet citizens.
</p>
<p> The discovery casts more doubt on the fifth and most
publicized photo, which depicts three men holding a sign with
cryptic writing and dated May 25, 1990. Although the Pentagon
has not formally discounted it, officials have linked it to an
"admitted fabricator" belonging to a "ring of well-known
Cambodian opportunists." U.S. investigators currently in Vietnam
on a one-month mission to resolve MIA cases have interviewed
dozens of officials and private citizens and examined numerous
crash sites, and say they have found no evidence of surviving
American soldiers.
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