Follow the Microfiche

In addition to a four-part series on the search for a captured pilot (which ran August 1-4, 1993), Schanberg published dozens of articles for Newsday on the M.I.A./P.O.W. issue.

If you're game for the library research involved, there's a forgotten history waiting to be rediscovered. Here's a starter list:

October 27, 1987 - "Will the Vietnam Body Count Ever Add Up?"

December 10, 1991 - "From the Soviets, Information on MIAs"

July 7, 1992 - "Disclosures Point to an MIA Cover-Up"

July 14, 1992 - "The Democrats Are Ducking Vietnam, Too"

July 24, 1992 - "On MIAs, the Press Was Lazy or Cowed"

August 21, 1992 - "More Bush Deviousness on POWs/MIAs"

September 18, 1992 - "The POWs: 'Buried' by the U.S. in ‘73"

September 25, 1992 - "The Nixon Presidency: Unraveling, Again"

September 29, 1992 - "Let’s Follow the Trail Of The Missing Men"

October 9, 1992 - "Bit by Bit, the POW/MIA Facts Emerge"

October 20, 1992 - "No More Cover-Ups Now on POW/MIAs"

October 30, 1992 - "An Honest Man Says POWs Live in Laos"

November 10, 1992 - "Fearing a New Cover-Up on POW/MIAs"

November 20, 1992 - "The Sad Scripted Ending to Our POWs’ Story"

November 24, 1992 - "Why the Rush to Close the POW Issue?"

December 18, 1992 - "The Odd, Pat Story of Col. Pham Duc Dai"

December 22, 1992 - "Why No Outrage at Nixon’s Stonewalling?"

January 7, 1993 - "It’s Operation Censor in Draft POW Report"

January 8, 1993 - "The Footnote Kissinger Wants Expunged"

January 15, 1993 - "Report Spins the Facts into Mush"

April 13, 1993 - "It’s Time to End POW Cover-Up"

August 27, 1993 - "What is the POW Probe Hiding From Us?"

September 3, 1993 - "First Get the Truth, Then Forgive"

September 10, 1993 - "Spy Papers Back MIA Cover-Up Accounts "

October 26, 1993 - "Senator Shuns the Evidence on Four MIAs"

November 5, 1993 - "POW Searchers Risk a Deal with Clinton"

November 16, 1993 - "The MIA Story: It’s Got to Be Kept Alive"

December 10, 1993 - "Washington Plays Softball With Hanoi"

January 4, 1994 - "Making 'Negatives' in the POW/MIA Case"

January 7, 1994 - "The Photo: Shadow or MIA Signal"

January 12, 1994 - "A New MIA Tale of Disappearing Images"

January 14, 1994 - "Laos May Hold the Key to Missing MIAs"

January 28, 1994 - "A Loss for Honesty on the Senate Floor"

February 1, 1994 - "POW/MIA facts: Just Too Troublesome"

August 5, 1994 - "A Pentagon Stonewall on Field Reports"

June 16, 1995 - "Facing Up to the Dirty Secret of Vietnam"

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