Bodies to U.S.
(NZPA-Reuter Clark Air Base ; (Philippines); An eight-man United Stat Congressional delegation has arrived at Clark Air Base from Hanoi with 15 bodies of Americans missing in action in the Vietnam War. Vietnamese authorities in Hanoi had given them 11 bodies. The other four were provided by Laotian authorities in Vientiane during the Congressmen’s six-day mission to Vietnam and Laos, which aimed both at obtaining information on 2500 Americans missing in action and discussing foreign-policy issues. The delegation, led by I Congressman G.V. MontgomI ery (Democrat, Mississippi) 'was the third United States | group to be given bodies of (missing in the last year as a I token of Vietnamese seriousiness in trying to resolve the I problem — one of the issues i hampering the establishment of diplomatic relations since ■ the Vietnam War ended in .1975.
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Press, 28 August 1978, Page 9
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