Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 8, 1993 TAG: 9306080062
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A3 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: HANOI, VIETNAM LENGTH: Short
MIA researchers said the center, inaugurated during last week's visit by a delegation of U.S. congressmen, is a new sign Vietnam is willing to cooperate in solving the remaining cases of 2,259 missing U.S. servicemen.
The archive, located in one room at the Vietnam Army Museum in downtown Hanoi, will be staffed jointly by U.S. and Vietnamese researchers.
Four researchers, two American and two Vietnamese, spent Monday morning examining and cataloging death certificates from Hanoi hospitals of some U.S. servicemen who died in captivity during the war.
The files were among the documents that Vietnamese officials gave to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and other congressmen last week.
At a ceremony today at Noi Bai airport, Vietnam plans to turn over remains presumed to be those of Americans missing from the war. American and Vietnamese investigators recovered the remains last month during a search in six provinces in central Vietnam. - Associated Press
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