The Parma prosecutors are investigating possible false accounting and probably will not file charges for several months.

He headed a delegation traveled to Vietnam to seek the fullest possible accounting of missing veterans.

"We want the fullest possible accounting," one official said before Hanoi's move yesterday.

"A board member's responsibility is to bring out the best possible accounting and financial reporting standards," he said.

The need to reach the fullest possible accounting is important, she said, "so the past can be put behind us."

I was most impressed with the acknowledgment that there are more things that can be done, that the Clinton Administration is committed to the fullest possible accounting.

"The Secretary emphasized his and the President's personal commitment to the fullest possible accounting," a senior official said.

What the president is committed to is the fullest possible accounting.

Clinton's Policy President Clinton said last year that he wanted the fullest possible accounting of the fate of more than 2,200 Americans missing in Indochina.

The move is the most decisive and far-reaching Vietnam has made in nearly two decades to meet American demands for the fullest possible accounting of the missing.