ROANOKE TIMES
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DATE: Friday, January 19, 1996 TAG: 9601190065
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
Hope raised for recovery of Korea MIAs
U.S. officials believe remains of as many as 3,500 U.S. servicemen killed in the Korean War could be recovered in North Korea if that nation's communist government would allow it, the Pentagon said Thursday.
James Wold, head of the Pentagon's office of POW-MIA affairs, said the U.S. government is willing to pay North Korea more than $1 million for 162 sets of U.S. remains already returned in recent years.
The payment could help open a door to eventually accounting for a large number of 8,140 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action from the 1950-53 Korean War.
Not all the missing are recoverable. But a former Korean War POW, a South Korean who escaped in 1994, said he heard northerners speak of mass graves holding American prisoners of war.
- Associated Press
Greek premier's successor chosen
ATHENS, Greece - Greece's ruling party on Thursday picked a low-key pragmatist who has often clashed with Andreas Papandreou to succeed the longtime socialist leader as premier.
Costas Simitis comes to power just months after he resigned as industry minister in his latest disagreement with Papandreou's populist economic policies.
- Associated Press
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