NATION
EMERGING FROM WAR'S SHADOW
Saying the time had come to "bind up our own wounds," President Clinton extended full diplomatic relations to Vietnam on the unanimous recommendation of his top advisers and with the backing of key legislators, including Republican Senator John McCain, a Vietnam War veteran and former POW. Normalization, said Clinton, would further U.S. diplomatic and economic interests and facilitate an accounting of Americans still missing in action. The American Legion, mia groups and many Republicans, among them Senate majority leader Bob Dole, protested.
AT THE END, BASELESS
President Clinton approved the latest round of 105 military-base closures...
