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...report released last week has rekindled the emotional issue once again. Prepared at the behest of North Carolina's Republican Senator Jesse Helms, a new special minority study from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asserts that a 1974 government analysis concluded that "several hundred living POW/MIAs were still held captive in Southeast Asia." The Pentagon categorically denied the existence of the analysis. "While we have yet to find conclusive evidence of the existence of live prisoners," said a Pentagon statement, "we cannot rule out the possibility . . . and we are pledged to take appropriate action should evidence be obtained...
Rallying Republicans in Oklahoma City, Bush blamed the Democrat-controlled Congress for dragging the economy to the edge of recession. He snarled that Congress had "turned its back on our police officers." Later he boasted that Republicans had "held the line against reckless cuts of our armed forces" sought by Democrats, adding that "we owe that much to our men and women in the Persian Gulf...
Unlike the case of either the Omaha collection or the Elgin marbles, no one has demanded the return of the Tun-huang pieces. A large number of similar wall paintings remain in the caves, and the pieces are not held to be the "crown jewels" of China...
Prior to the dinner, Sullivan met with variouscampus groups at a reception held at Wilson'sBrattle St. home...
Clearly, defense is the key area for Harvard, and penn's style plays right into the hands of the Crimson's strengths. The Quakers, who have rushed for 170 yards per game, will be faced with a stingy Crimson defense that has held its opponents to 103 yards per game on the ground...