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I Search in r i Vietnam t (N.Z P.A.-Reuter —Copyright) SAIGON, March 30. , United States officials in ' Saigon are convinced that a > number of United States sert vicemen are still alive and 1 being held captive in the t jungles of South Vietnam. , Only a few hours after the , last United States command t serviceman left Vietnam to end direct United States mili- , tary commitment, United ’ States officials said today j that they were convinced there were some Americans t alive in the jungle. 4 A team of 14 United States t officers is staying behind in . South Vietnam to work with South Vietnamese, Viet Cong t and Northern Vietnamese ofh- , cials to look for 1328 United - States servicemen listed as missing, believed captured, in Vietnam. . One of their first jobs will be to arrange the release of a United States prisoner, believed to be Captain Robert White. Captain Whites name was handed to the United States authorities two days ago. He was captured in Phuqc Tuy province, east of Saigon in 1968, but is being held m t Vinh Binh Province on the 1 other side of Saigon m the Mekong Delta.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 15
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