The World - News from June 15, 1986
Vietnam turned over more information on 21 Americans listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War and promised to investigate reports that some U.S. soldiers there are still alive, an American official said. A four-man U.S. negotiating team, from the Hawaii-based U.S. Joint Casualty Resolution Center, returned to Bangkok, Thailand, from Hanoi, and the team leader, Lt. Col. Joe Harvey, said Vietnam provided “additional information on the status of its investigation” into the cases of 21 American MIAs. The 21 are among 70 cases Hanoi previously said it was looking into. The Vietnamese suspended the talks after the April 15 U.S. bombing raid on Libya, but negotiations resumed Wednesday.
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