Graveside search for MIAs
The United States plans to excavate seven gravesites in Vietnam where US prisoners of war listed as having died in captivity 20 years ago are believed to be buried, AP reports from Hanoi. The operation - the largest search mission for soldiers missing in action since the end of the Vietnam War - comes as Washington is assessing when and how to lift its 19-year-old trade embargo against its former enemy.
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