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U.S. says
Moscow
held 100s
of POWs
WASHINGTON(AP) -The U.S.
government has confronted the Rus-
sian government for the first time with
evidence that hundreds of U.S. Ko-
rean War prisoners were secretly
moved to the Soviet Union, impris-
oned and never returned.
The allegation, supported by new
information from a variety of Ameri-
can and Russian sources, was made in
a detailed presentation by a State De-
partment official at a meeting with
Russian officials in Moscow earlier
this month.
The evidence is spelled out in a
government report titled "The Trans-
fer of U.S. Korean War POWs to the
Soviet Union." It was given to the
Russians at the Moscow meeting but
theClinton administration has refused
to release it.
"The Soviets transferred several
hundred U.S. Korean War POWs to
the U.S.S.R. and did not repatriate
them," the report says in a copy made
available to The Associated Press.
"This transfer was mainly politically
motivated with the intent of holding
them as political hostages, subjects
for intelligence exploitation and
skilled labor within the camp."
It asserts that the evidence gave a
"consistent and mutually reinforcing
description" of Soviet intelligence
services forcibly moving U.S. POWs
to the Soviet Union at a time when the
Sovietmilitary, including anti-aircraft
units, was active in North Korea.
It does not assess how long the
American military personnel -
mostly Air Force aviators -may have
lived, or whether any might still be
alive in the former Soviet Union.
Just last year, the U.S. government
said it had no evidence of such trans-
fers. Washington has known, though,
since the end of the war that some
evidence existed thatU.S. POWs from
Korea had been taken to the Soviet
Union. It asked Moscow for informa-
tion on this in May 1954 and July
1956. Both times the Soviets denied
knowledge of U.S. POWs on its soil.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin
said last year that Soviet records
showed 59 captured U.S. military per-
sonnel in Korea were interrogated by
Soviet officials, and that 12 crew
members of U.S. aircraft shot down in
reconnaissance missions unrelated to
the Korean War were transferred to
Soviet territory. But the Yeltsin gov-
ernment has yet to concede thatAmeri-
cans were taken from Korea.
The 77-page U.S. report on U.S.
Korean War prisoners delivered to
Russia gives no specific figure but the
analysis seems to indicate it is fewer
than 600.
It identifies by name 31 missing Air
Force pilots'who are among the most
likely identifiable military personnel to
have been taken by the Soviets for their
knowledge of the plane's capabilities,
plus six other aviators about whom the
U.S. government thinks Russia has ad-
ditional information.
ENGINEERING 101
Clinton urges
law to ban
insurer fraud
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Flanked by mlitary, Yeltsin says
hard-line Congress 'not a threat'
WASHINGTON (AP) - Fearing
that insurers might dump sick patients,
President Clinton will ask Congress
to impose strict regulations on the
insurance industry during the transi-
tion to his new health care system.
"We want to make sure that the
insurance market doesn't go crazy
during the interim period," said Ira
Magaziner, the president's senior
health care adviser.
The reforms would bar insurers
from cutting off anyone's health in-
surance if he or she became sick and
would allow workers to stay insured
when they switched jobs, even if they
or their children have chronic health
problems.
Clinton hopes to have a universal
health care system in place by mid-
1997, with a new rating system mak-
ing insurance more expensive for the
young and healthy and cheaper for the
older and sickly.
His advisers expect many small
companies to get out of the health
insurance business when they are
forced to compete on the basis of
managing care rather than avoiding
risks.
"A lot of insurers might look at
(the future) and say, 'Well, I'm not
going to be able to be around two
years from now, so I'm just going to
raise my prices or drop all my sick
people,"' Magaziner said. "We've got
to make sure that doesn't happen."
Insurance and health executives
expressed alarm at the prospect of
tighter regulations.
"If insurers want to withdraw from
a whole line of business, they ought to
be able to do that," said Ed Neuschler,
director of policy development and
research at the Health Insurance As-
sociation of America.
Thomas Pyle, the incoming chief
executive of Met Life Health Care
and a former consultant to Clinton's
health team, said, "If you combine an
inability to go.out of business with
some control of rates, then you're in
effect confiscating corporate prop-
erty."
Whatever the fate of Clinton's
Health Security ActCongress is likely
to pass legislation next year forcing
changes on the insurance industry and
making it easier for consumers to get
coverage.
A 239-page draft of the White
House reform plan says that;-"to re-
duce the potential for disruption,"
Clinton's Health Security Act would
impose interim rules that:
0 bar insurers from cutting off
anyone's health insurance for any rea-
son "except for non-payment of pre-
miums or other strictly defined cause,"
require insurers to develop a
single rate manual with only three
categories: individuals, groups of
fewer than 100 and larger groups. Any
premium increases would have to ap-
ply equally to all three,
forbid exclusions for pre-exist-
ing conditions for new employees and
their families who had insurance in
the previous 90 days. If they had been
uninsured, only medical conditions
that occurred in the previous six
months would be grounds for exclu-
sion,
ban employers from imposing
waiting periods for coverage on eli-
gible employees; and,
prohibit employers and insurers
from reducing coverage for AIDS or
any other disease expected to cost
more than $5,000 a year to treat.
It also says the government may
set up a national risk pool for sick
people who lose coverage or cannot
buy coverage during the transition.
MOSCOW (AP) - Thousands of
Russians cheered President Boris
Yeltsin at a concert on Red Square on
Sunday and at least 10,000 people
marched in the biggest demonstration
of support for the president since he
disbanded parliament five days ago.
Across town, hard-liners who have
defied Yeltsin by refusing to leave the
parliament building dug in their heels.
"If need be, we will stay here for a
year," said parliament speaker Rusan
Khasbulatov, leader of about 100 law-
makers who remain holed up in the.
building, known as the White House.
Yeltsin, accompanied by Defense
Minister Pavel Grachev and Moscow
MayorYuriLuzhkov, waded into surg-
ing crowds on Red Square for a free
concert by the Washington-based Na-
tional Symphony Orchestra and its
conductor, former dissident Mstislav
Rostropovich.
The president waved and smiled,
then took his place at the front of the
crowd. He cracked a smile again when
earblasting cannons went off during
Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture."
An announcer urged "faith in the
president and in Russia's future," and
the crowd responded "Hurrah! Hur-
rah!"
A longtime backer of Yeltsin,
Rostropovich has said he wanted the
concert to give Russians hope and
confidence during the transition to a
post-Soviet democracy.
"Yeltsin is one of us and he must
succeed," said Nina Shtanina, a 69-
year-old pensioner who arrived on
Red Square at 8 a.m., four hours early,
to get a good view of Rostropovich.
Temperatures were near freezing.
"I took part in the Second World
War, and if we won that fight, we can
win this one," she said.
Yeltsin's campaign to win support from Russians
and Washington continues to gain momentum as he
demonstrates clear control of the military.
Later, pro-Yeltsin demonstrators
chanting "Yeltsin! Yeltsin!" linked
arms and marched down broad
Tverskaya Street - Gorky Street in
Soviet times. A small band headed the
procession.
Marchers carried Russian flags,
pictures of the president and placards
with slogans such as "Shame on the
White House," "Boris, You're Right
Again" and "Elections are the Will of
the People."
Yeltsin has set new parliamentary
elections for December and says presi-
dential elections could be held in June.
The hard-line Congress wants simul-
taneous parliamentary and presiden-
tial elections in March.
Khasbulatov's parliament, elected
in Soviet times, opposed the
president's free-market reforms, say-
ing they were causing undue hard-
ship. Lawmakers also whittled away
at Yeltsin's presidential powers.
"This is the moment you have to
be decisive and support Yeltsin be-
cause he's a democrat," said Anton
Beneslavsky, a 16-year-old student
marching in the crowd. "If the Com-
munists return they'll destroy the
economy again, and freedom, and
peace."
Outside the White House, Yeltsin's
rebellious vice president, Alexander
Rutskoi, urged 3,000 to 4,000 anti-
Yeltsin demonstrators "to stand till
the end." Rutskoi has condemned
Yeltsin's actions as unconstitutional
and declared himself president.
The demonstrators are a mix of
Communists and extreme national-
ists, and are mostly older than Yeltsin's
supporters. Some diehards stay around
the clock, but most people come and
go past the flimsy barricades thrown
together from assorted debris. Yeltsin's
riot police, in bulletproof vests and
steel helmets, stand by.
At a news conference, Khasbulatov
said he would not deal with Yeltsin,
saying elections could be held only if
the "formerpresidentleaves his Krem-
lin office" and the press is relieved of
"political censorship."
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