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- <text id=93TT1601>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: No Smoking Gun
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 22
- WORLD
- No Smoking Gun
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A Russian report on American POWS may have been real but not
- right
- </p>
- <p> Perhaps something was lost in the translation. The Russian
- document suggesting there were 600 more Americans in North
- Vietnam than were admitted by the Vietnamese prompted General
- John Vessey, the President's special envoy on POWs, to fly to
- Hanoi to check again. "It is an authentic Russian document," he
- reported, but added, "we know a great deal of the information
- ((in it)) is inaccurate." A faded ledger provided by Vietnam--and supported by U.S. documents--shows far fewer POWs than the
- report claims. Hanoi also disputes the document's assertion that
- its Politburo met on a certain day to be briefed on the captured
- Americans.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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