Peace talks begin as four nations meet in New York
North Korea joins China South Korea and the United States at Columbia University to set a date and venue for four party talks on a lasting peace for the Korean peninsula. Delegations aim to replace the 1953 armistice with a security framework while North Korea seeks troop withdrawal discussions.
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Declassified Air Force report on Korean War POWs
A newly declassified Air Force report from 1955 indicates dozens of missing American airmen were alive in Chinese or North Korean prisons after the war. It details a failed rescue of five B-29 crew members and notes a Defense Department list of 389 unaccounted servicemen, with North Korea and China cited as holders of information.
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Deaths rise in Britain linked to mad cow disease
Two more Britons have died from a brain illness linked to mad cow disease, bringing the total British fatalities to 20. EU bans on British beef persist after last year’s warning that cattle fed offal from scrapie sheep likely caused Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease in humans. Government figures show seven deaths this year, ten in 1996, and three in 1995.
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Department of Health
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