World IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : ‘Charade’ Charge on POWs Dismissed

An internal investigation has found “no foundation” for an Army colonel’s assertion that the government has deliberately made a “charade” of the effort to resolve POW and MIA cases stemming from the Vietnam War, the Defense Department said. The charges were leveled by Army Col. Millard Peck, who resigned in April as director of the Special Office for Prisoners of War and Missing in Action. Duane Andrews, the assistant secretary of defense who investigated Peck’s charges, said investigators have looked into similar charges seven separate times, and “in each case the allegations were found to be baseless.”