The World - News from July 7, 1988
An American caught after entering Cambodia illegally 14 months ago has been handed over to the Red Cross and will soon leave the country, Cambodian radio said. Sterling Brian Bono, 36, of Las Animas, Colo., was arrested May 2, 1987, when he crossed the border, reportedly to look for a friend who has been missing in Indochina since the 1970s. Bono, in an interview with American reporters last week in Phnom Penh, said he served with an Army engineer unit in Vietnam in 1972.
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