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<text id=92TT2465>
<title>
Nov. 02, 1992: Progress at Last
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Nov. 02, 1992 Bill Clinton's Long March
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 13
NATION
Progress at Last
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<p>Looking for rapprochement, Vietnam promises new POW/MIA evidence
</p>
<p> For the families of American soldiers and pilots missing in
Southeast Asia, the announcement was as stunning as the orange
sunrise bathing the Rose Garden Friday morning. President Bush
announced that "Hanoi has agreed to provide us with all, and I
repeat all, information they have collected on American pows and
mias." Confirming a report that first appeared in TIME's Oct.
26 issue (Grapevine), Bush called the acquisition of more than
5,000 black-and-white photos of American POW/MIAS from the
Vietnam era a "significant, real breakthrough" in determining
the fate of the 2,265 Americans still not fully accounted for.
</p>
<p> Supplementing Bush's statement, retired General John
Vessey, the President's personal MIA/POW representative, just
back from Hanoi, produced new photos and a Memorandum of
Understanding in which Vietnamese officials agreed to "make
available all museums that may contain U.S. MIA archival data"
and promised access to display cases, microfiche files and other
materials. "The important thing is not the material we brought
back," Vessey emphasized. "The important thing is the material
we expect to get."
</p>
<p> Bush made it clear that Hanoi's cooperation will open the
way toward re-establishing diplomatic relations, broken off in
1975, and lifting the economic embargo that has helped keep
Vietnam's economy in desperate shape. Bush said U.S. officials
got their first glimpse of Vietnam's war archives last summer.
None of the new information provided any leads to possible live
Americans. The President cautioned that "we may never know" the
fate of all the POWs and MIAs.
</p>
</body></article>
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