Labor Day Riot Anniversary Fades in Virginia Beach
A year after riots and looting marred Labor Day in Virginia Beach, the city stages a formal upscale event while lingering fears keep many away. Hotels were 48 percent full on Friday night but rising, with authorities maintaining a strong patrol as about 100,000 people filled the beachfront last year. No injuries or arrests were reported in early incidents as police and troopers oversee a quieter holiday period.
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U.S.-Vietnam MIA Joint Search Highlights 1988 Effort
Vietnamese teams completed their longest joint search for missing U.S. servicemen, Aug 6 to Aug 31, monitored from Bangkok. About 2,300 Americans remain missing from the Vietnam War, with roughly 70 percent unaccounted for in Vietnam. US forensic experts from Joint Casualty Resolution Center and Army Central Identification Laboratory handled 70 remnant sets found in earlier Vietnamese work.
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Former Ambassador to Japan Edwin Reischauer Dies at 79
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer died in La Jolla California on Saturday from hepatitis at Green Hospital of Scripps Clinic. He served as US ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966 under Kennedy and Johnson, and authored books on Asia and the Japan relation. He was born in Tokyo on October 15, 1910.
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