World & Nation
Some African American activists doubt that he’d firmly back their causes. ‘He would be the multicultural president.’
Feb. 10, 2007
He pushed the wrong button, he asserted at the time. Two of the admitted flubs were on hotly contested issues.
Jan. 24, 2008
Politics
A former congressman who was fired by a Senate committee investigating the fate of U.S. servicemen missing after the Vietnam War accused the committee’s chairman Wednesday of suppressing evidence that proves that American POWs were held by Vietnam and Laos as late as 1989.
July 2, 1992
Twenty-one Republican members of Congress have pledged to contribute $100,000 each toward a $2.4-million reward for any citizen of Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia who defects and brings along any American prisoner of war to the United States, organizers of the effort said Wednesday at a press conference near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
July 16, 1987
National partisan tides carried North Carolina Republican Bill Hendon to Congress in 1980, swept him out of office two years later and carried him back in 1984.
Oct. 26, 1986
A group of Americans seeking U.S. prisoners of war in Indochina today floated plastic bags down the Mekong River toward Laos with messages offering $2.4 million to defectors who bring POWs out with them.
Sept. 17, 1987
Science & Medicine
Ernest Hendon, the last surviving participant in the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the U.S. government’s 40-year study of the effects of untreated syphilis on a group of black men in rural Macon County, Ala., has died.
Jan. 25, 2004
Business
He once made a living on adjustable-rate mortgages. Now in a new job, he says he’s out to save homeowners from the whole mess.
Feb. 9, 2008
A private U.S. think tank said it has “irrefutable” evidence that American servicemen are still imprisoned in Laos.
Sept. 1, 1987