HIST 357 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Operation Linebacker Ii
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Carter brought back 48 remains in 4 years. Reagan cut funding for mia/pow research to figure out what was going on. Many claimed live sightings all through the 80s of prisoners in vietnam in exchange for visas and green cards: traffic in all sorts of other purported evidence. Dog tags: could sell them for a lot of money. After 1945, the us had no friends anywhere and funding possibilities dried up. Contempt for the chinese attitude - in 1971, nixon normalized relations with china as part of a larger strategy to isolate the vietnamese and get them to give in: chinese achieved great diplomatic victory in 1971. The southern revolution did not share all of their views. Southern vietnamese were not aware of how russia was faring; no idea what happened to russia after. Only 22 mia recovered in reagan years -- not in political danger but irked by the pow/mia lobby.
