The World - News from April 6, 1988

U.S. officials arrived in Hanoi for talks on the fate of more than 1,700 Americans still listed as missing in action from the Vietnam War and to receive the remains of 27 Americans--the largest number to be returned since the end of the war. A 25-member team of the Joint Casualty Resolution Center is to receive the remains today. Meanwhile, Nguyen Dy Nien, a deputy foreign minister, said the United States should help rebuild Vietnam if it wants a full accounting of MIAs. Nien, in a meeting with Sen. Larry Pressler (R-S.D.), repeated charges that Washington has not fully abided by an agreement reached last August in which the United States agreed to address Vietnam’s humanitarian concerns in return for a full accounting of MIAs.