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<text id=92TT1422>
<title>
June 22, 1992: A Presummit Gesture
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
June 22, 1992 Allergies
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 27
WORLD
A Presummit Gesture
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<p>Yeltsin confirms that the Soviets held American prisoners in
the 1950s
</p>
<p> "As the ancients used to say, the war is not over as long as
the last slain soldier remains unburied." With these words
Russian President Boris Yeltsin made an effort last week to help
mend the scars of the cold war. In a letter to the Senate Select
Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the
1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft --
incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12
surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also
reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for
varying periods during World War II and interrogated 59 American
pows from the Korean War. He offered no significant information
on the fate of missing servicemen from the Vietnam War era.
</p>
<p> Senator John Kerry congratulated Yeltsin for "admitting
the sins of the past." But Yeltsin's letter raised more
questions than it answered. Were all 716 World War II pows
released? And what happened to those 12 survivors captured in
the 1950s? Yeltsin promised more details once the Russian
investigation was complete.
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</body></article>
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