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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER 



Our Turn to Talk About MIAs 



President Bons Yeitsui's dramatic 

 revelauons about .Amencon MIAs still 

 alive in Russia were a great post-Cold 

 War gesture of goodwill (news story, 

 June I3|. It ;s a shame the Bush admin- 

 istration did not see fit to respond with 

 iniormauon about Russian MLAs. 



Ironically, the U.S. government pos- 

 sesses 3uch inibrmauon. In 1974. with 

 the help ot ±e Howard Hughes con- 

 itructed salvage inio. the Giomar Ex- 

 plorer, the CL\ recovered pans of a 

 Soviet diesel-powered Golf ballistic mis- 

 sile submarine that sank in the Pacific in 

 1968. .Accounts of this operation say 

 that bodies of sailors raised with the sub 

 were given a proper bunai at sea. and 

 the crew members of the Giomar Ex- 

 plorer "/ideouped the ceremonies. 



Recent Russian press reports have 

 earned appeals to the U.S. government 

 to provide ini'ormation about these buri- 

 als in order to comibrt the famiiies of 

 the sailors. We should also put more of 

 the Cold War behind us and tell our 

 newly found fnends what happened to 

 their missing sons. 



JOSHUA H.\NDLER 



Rcscafch Coordiiuior 



.Nuclear Free Sut Campaign 



Greenpeace 



Washington 



