Captives in Vietnam
i (NZ.PA.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON. May 30. ; The United States yester-) (day voiced concern about al I group of American missionaries who are being held-cap-hive together with an Australian, Peter Whitlock, at Ban Me Thout in the Central (Highlands of South Vietnam. - “We consider their release and safe return a matter of! j urgent priority and concern” (the State department spokes--‘man. Mr Robert Funseth, said lat a newsbriefing. United States officials said; that the United States had (made no representations to South Vietnam on behalf of ) Whitlock or a Canadian mis-: 'sionarv couple. (Whitlock, who is the A.B.C. programme director in -Western Australia, was capjtured at Ban Me Thuot last March with six Americans and the two Canadians). (He was visiting Ban Me -Thuot on leave from a radio ; advisory job in Thailand for the Australian Government).
Mr Funseth said that the United States concern h II been conveyed to Communist authorities in South Vietnarti through a number of channels which he did not name. There had been no response.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33857, 31 May 1975, Page 15
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