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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. April 2005 / Time Line April 25, 2005
Version 3.024. April 2005, 26. April 2005
04/25/2005
NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense:
Vietnam War Missing in Action Servicemen Identified
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
announced today that the remains of four U.S. servicemen, missing
in action from the Vietnam War, have been identified and are being
returned to their families for burial with full military
honors.
Of the 88,000 Americans missing in action from all conflicts, 1,835
are from the Vietnam War, with 1,398 of those within the country of
Vietnam. Another 748 Americans have been accounted for since the
end of the Vietnam War.
04/25/2005
Costs of war quietly surpass $300 billion : Congress
approves requests from the president and the Pentagon with little
resistance and adds a few unrelated projects to boot.
By Lawrence M. O'Rourke -- Bee Washington Bureau
Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, April 25, 2005
http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/v-print/story/12785625p-13636521c.html
WASHINGTON - The cost of war continues to climb, but despite
growing unease, Congress is giving President Bush and the Pentagon
whatever they say is needed.
Besides, the legislation to pay for the war also gives some in
Congress a chance to toss in a few items that are not linked to the
combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the continued U.S. troop
presence also is costing money.
04/25/2005
Army Hospital Gets Civilian Aid : Filling Military Gap,
Neurosurgeons Tend Wounded From Iraq
By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Foreign Service
Washington Post
April 25, 2005
LANDSTUHL, Germany -- Faced with a shortage of neurosurgeons, the
U.S. military's largest overseas hospital is becoming increasingly
dependent on civilian doctors volunteering their time to treat
troops who suffered severe brain and spinal injuries in Iraq.
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, an Army-run hospital in
southwestern Germany, began recruiting civilian neurosurgeons from
the United States late last year after a rotation of active-duty
physicians became stretched so thin that the hospital was left
without coverage at times...
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