The World : Reward Offered for MIAs

A group of Americans announced a plan to pay $1 million to citizens of Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia for the return of any living U.S. serviceman listed as missing in action after the Vietnam War. The POW Policy Center of the American Defense Institute announced the plan in Charlotte, N.C. The reward will be paid only to a citizen of those countries “who frees an American POW and returns him to a U.S. official at a U.S. facility in Southeast Asia,” said Bill Hendon, a former Republican congressman from North Carolina who joined a number of present congressional Republicans in pledging $100,000 each toward the reward. The Pentagon says there are 2,441 MIAs unaccounted for in Indochina.