The World - News from July 23, 1985
The Pentagon has recommended that the United States reject changes in the 1949 Geneva Conventions dealing with war prisoners because the revisions could be interpreted as applying to terrorists, officials said. The State Department is making a final review of the revisions, approved by the Carter Administration but never submitted to the Senate. The Pentagon believes the revisions blur the distinction between regular soldiers and guerrillas and could abet terrorism, an official said.
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