NATION IN BRIEF : VIRGINIA : MIA Group Says ‘Read My Button’

Members of POW-MIA families wore “Shut Up and Sit Down” buttons Monday to protest what they said is President Bush’s refusal to heed their concerns about missing relatives they believe may still be alive. The buttons appeared at a news conference in Crystal City, Va., at which the National Alliance of Families repeated its demands that Bush immediately declassify information about missing servicemen and prisoners of war. Members of the alliance heckled the President during a speech here Friday to the National League of Families of American MIAs-POWs in Southeast Asia. Bush ended the heckling by asking sternly, “Would you please shut up and sit down?”