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Article: The lost soldiers. (American missing in action in Indochina)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 6, 1988
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AMERICANS are still hoping that some of their soldiers listed as missing in the Vietnam war will turn up, even though the war ended in 1975. Looking for them is one of the tasks of an American army team that arrived in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, last week.
Most westerners allowed into Indochina since the war think it unlikely that any Americans are being held there against their will. Any who remain have chosen to stay, they reckon, and may have married local women. The others in America's list of 2,394 soldiers unaccounted for are assumed to be dead. But a small, stubborn minority continues to believe that there are prisoners to be liberated.
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