search North begin for first time By ROBERT BURNS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON, D.C. North Korea has agreed for the first time to work with the United States to account for thousands of U.S. and allied troops listed as missing since the end of the Korean war, the Pentagon said yesterday. The agreement appeared to be a step forward in a 40-year-old dis pute over North Korea's obliga tions to account for the missing. But it was not immediately clear how far the North Korean government had agreed to go in the effort. It also is unclear how many bodies may be recovered. The U.S. government lists about 8,140 U.S. servicemen as unac counted for from the 1950-53 Korean conflict. It says it has no credible evidence that any of them were alive at the end of the war, although some experts dispute that. A majority of those people were known to have been killed in the war but are listed as "unaccounted for" because their bodies have not been returned and identified. Some bodies were returned but could not be positively identified; some were buried in battlefield graves and not recovered; others were missing at sea. Some believe a relatively small number of Americans were held captive in North Korea after the war or were sent to labor camps in China or the former Soviet Union. Marine Corps Maj. Steve Little said the question of whether Americans were held captive after the war will be raised by American officials during meetings of a "working group" that is being established with the North Korean military. In announcing the agreement with North Korea, the Pentagon said the working group would attempt to resolve the issue of unaccounted for servicemen "and especially toward implementing a regularization of the repatriation of remains." It said the group would meet "in the near future," but no date was disclosed. 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Seventeen sets of remains hand ed over last month have not yet been examined. A statement released by North Korea yesterday said the agreement was signed Tuesday after dozens of working-level contacts between the two sides at the truce village of Panmunjom, which straddles the heavily armed Korean border. Paul Cole, a Rand Corp. analyst who is an authority on the subject, said it appeared that North Korea had won a longstanding battle to address the issue of Korean war remains in a direct dialogue with the United States an arrangement the U.S:led United Nations Command in Korea has resisted for years. "This appears to be a step in that direction," Cole said. Delores Alfond, head of the National Alliance of Families, rep resenting families with relatives unaccounted for from U.S. con flicts dating to World War 11, said she was particularly pleased that the new agreement included dis cussions on the possibility that American war veterans may still be alive in Korea. "This is really a breakthrough," she said. "I would hope that on our side it would not just be an accounting for bones." Bridget Mount, reporter, Philadelphia Inquirer Oooh! Aaah! Muscovites admire a new Chrysler sports car exhibited at Moscow Motor Show. More than 120 companies from 25 countries took part in the second international auto show. The show opened yesterday in Moscow. Remains of gold found; By TODD LEWAN Associated Press Writer BOA VISTA, Brazil —lnvestiga tors found charred human bones and teeth in the ashes of eight jungle bonfires yesterday, the first tan gible evidence of a reported mas sacre of 71 Stone Age Yanomami Indians by gold miners. Federal police and officials from the National Indian Foundation spotted the bonfire sites on a trail leading from Haximu village in northwestern Roraima state to the Venezuelan border. "This should silence those who say the massacre didn't happen," said Suami Pefilho dos Santos, head of the Indian foundation in Roraima. "All that the Yanomami survivors said happened is being proven true." He said at least eight bodies were cremated in the bonfires. "We calculate that many others were thrown into the nearby Haximu River." The absence of bodies during a week of investigations had led some authorities to question whether the killings occurred at all. Indian Foundation officials said that 73 people died, including two fetuses. Doubts mounted after a Yano mami chief who said he witnessed the massacre told federal investi gators he could not take them to the site, giving no explanation. Police questioned Chief Antonio and three Indians from nearby villages late Tuesday at the Xidea outpost on the Yanomami reserva tion near Haximu, where the mas sacre reportedly occurred. The site was erroneously given earlier as Homoxi-Itu, a village nearby. Federal Police Chief I.acerda Carlos Junior said the chief gave details of look for Brazilian massacre miners suspected the massacre, but could not speci fy when and where it happened. The massacre date originally was reported as Aug. 17, but authori ties said Wednesday it could have occurred six weeks ago. The primitive Yanomami do not measure time on a calendar, nor do they measure distances or num bers in units, "which made the testimony confusing to police," Eliana Lucena, an Indian Foundation rep resentative, explained. About 2,000 Yanomami died through violence or disease after miners illegally entered the min eral-rich area in 1987. They kept returning despite government efforts to drive them out. Antonio told police that miners circled a mushroom-shaped com munal hut where about 50 Yano mami lived, fired at anyone coming out. Child can't see Jackson By MICHAEL FLEEMAN Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES The 13-year-old who reportedly triggered the Michael Jackson child abuse investigation was forbidden by a judge to have any contact with the pop star as part of a bitter custody battle between the boy's parents. Superior Court Judge Kenneth A. Black said in an Aug. 17 order obtained yesterday by The Asso ciated Press that the boy's mother wasn't allowed to let the child even telephone Jackson. The document didn't say why the boy was barred from contacting Jackson or explain their relationship, though the order was dated the same day police opened the investigation into the entertainer. The boy reportedly traveled with Jackson, including a trip to Mona co in May on which the boy's mother and sister also went along, news papers reported at the time. Jackson denies wrongdoing. His security consultant said the inves tigation was based on false allega tions made by an extortionist seeking $2O million from the entertainer. Jackson, who turns 35 on Sun day, fell ill in Thailand from dehydration and postponed a Bangkok concert on his world tour. Police searched Jackson's Los Angeles condominium and Never land ranch over the weekend and reportedly seized photographs and videotapes. Authorities provided no further details on the investigation by the police department's Sex ually Exploited Child Unit. A source who saw confidential police documents and spoke on condition of anonymity told the AP on Tuesday that the investigation began after the boy told a thera pist he was sexually abused by Jackson. Jackson's attorney, Howard Weitzman, didn't return a report er's telephone calls yesterday. Attorney Barry Rothman, who represents the boy's father, wouldn't comment but said he planned a statement soon. The mother's attorney, Michael Freeman, said the woman was unaware of any sexual relationship between her son and Jackson. "Obviously, she had no idea whatsoever that anything was going on of that nature or she would have stopped it," Freeman said. PSU CAMPUS w 7.9 11 COLLEGE AVE. 3, "Collegian XI CO P: !I: ! / •
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