Vets seek barter deal to win Vietnam MIAs aid
New York veterans group Project Recovery urges Hanoi to exchange American skills and materials for the release of any living Vietnam War MIAs or information. Allegany County Vista Veterans wrote Hanoi on March 26 and plan a national petition through Sept 80 to press negotiations with Vietnamese officials.
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Wellsville
Vietnam
U.S
New York
Allegany County Vista
Kevin E. Collin
United Nations
Bur Kuan Nhat
Hanoi
Collins
Tals
Southeast Asia
Allegany County
Vietnam Veterans
Nation and county honor military on Memorial Day
Onondaga County and nation honor service members with dawn ceremonies and parades. Vietnam Veterans Association placed 254 vases bearing names of local fallen soldiers on the Korea Vietnam Memorial steps. Tom King of Auburn plans to fly 87 flags on his yard to remember 37 men from the area who died in the Persian Gulf and his WWI veteran father. Families invited to take home flowers in remembrance. Memorial Day, Page A7.
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Stark
Onondaga County
Korea
East Onondaga
South Warren Streets
Syracuse
Liverpool
Liverpool Cemetery
Fifth Street
LaPayette
Cicero
Payetteville
Skaneateles
East Syracuse
North Syracuse
Auburn
Tom King
West Lake Road
Persian Gulf
King
John King
South Parifre
Vietnam Veterans Association
One Million Attend Golden Gate Bridge Birthday Celebration
More than a million people filled San Francisco for the Golden Gate Bridge's fiftieth anniversary. A walk across the span began the day, followed by a $400,000 fireworks show and Tony Bennett singing I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Temperatures dipped to the 50s as winds topped 40 mph, yet crowds remained, with 20,000 fireworks shells lighting the sky and the San Francisco Symphony performing. Marion Patterson of Menlo Park called the bridge a symbol of peace, a link between people.
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Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco
Tony Bennett
Senators tour Persian Gulf after Stark attack
U S Senator James Sasser and a 10 member House panel visited Bahrain to assess the May 17 attack on the USS Stark. Investigators in Baghdad were en route while officials debated whether Stark's Phalanx system failed. Iraq apologized saying it was mistaken identity.
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Manama
Bahrain
U.S
Stark
Iraq
James Sasser
D-Tenn
Senate
Robert C. Byrd
D-W
Persian Gulf
House Armed Services Committee
Les Aspin
D-Wis
Ais
State
Defense Departments
Baghdad
Sasser
Navy Invest
Ing
U.S. Navy
Fire at NYC hospital kills one and injures five
Investigators probe smoking in bed as the likely cause of a fire at Goldwater Memorial Hospital on Roosevelt Island. An 88 year old woman, Anna Schiff, died. five others injured, two critically. Ward All four-bed room evacuated. Mayor Koch called scene a near tragedy.
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Nyc Hospital
New York
Goldwater Memorial Hrospital
Roosevelt Island
Ken Murphy
Fire Department
Anna Schiff
Deborsh Schreifels
Ward
Murphy
Edward J. Koch
Daily News
Margaret Weeks
Iran-Contra panel may recall Secord witnesses
The Iran Contra panel presses Richard V. Secord to reopen records in Swiss banks amid questions about profits from Contra arms sales. Lawmakers argue Secord blocks access. he says profits were modest and the war aid was a business. Hakim, Secord’s partner, is due to testify after a Memorial Day recess.
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Iran-Contra Panel
Secord
Washington
Richard V. Secord
Switzerland
David Boren
Dekla
Boren
General Secord
Paul Tribic
R-Va
Seena
Associated Press
John K. Singlaub
U.S
Lebanon
Nicaragua
Secard
Albert Hakim
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