U.S. Plucks Rebels Out of Cambodia
<i> Associated Press</i>
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
The U.S. government flew the first of nearly 400 Vietnamese insurgents to new homes in the United States on Wednesday, a decade and a half after abandoning them as Communist forces seized South Vietnam.
Forty-three Montagnard rebels, women and children--some clutching mini American flags--stoically climbed aboard the planes to begin the journey to North Carolina.
They were recently discovered after years of living in the isolated, dense forests of northeastern Cambodia, which borders Vietnam.
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