EX-POW SENATOR URGES VIETNAM OPENING

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, today said the U.S. should establish fulldiplomatic relations with Hanoithis year. McCain, who spent six years in North Vietnamese prisons, made the statement in Hanoi after watching Vietnamese officials hand over to the U.S. military 10 plain wooden boxes holding what are believed to be the remains of American M.I.A.s. Though Vietnam veterans groups still favor a go-slow approach,TIME senior writer Bruce Nelansays McCain's moral authority will probably lend the Clinton Administration credibility inshepherding U.S. investment efforts in Vietnam, which already total $525 million since Jan. 1.