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Informed Sources: Aug. 2, 1993

Looking for POWs and MIAs

White House sources have provided Time with specifics on heretofore undetailed joint U.S.-Vietnamese investigations into the fate of American POWS AND MIAS. In Vietnam, since January 1992, there have been eight joint field searches and 40 crash- or grave-site excavations; also, 422 cases from files and 92 live sightings were checked out. Vietnam and the U.S. have been making searches together in Laos and Cambodia as well; there have been a total of roughly 170 investigations of various types in the former country and 110 in the latter. The high numbers seem to indicate that Vietnam...

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