Article: Clinton presides over repatriation ceremony in Hanoi.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

HANOI, Vietnam _ It's a kind of greasy clay, thick and brown, perfect for growing rice and making bricks, but damned lousy for finding missing American pilots.

U.S. experts and Vietnamese laborers are currently digging their way through a rice paddy in the farming village of Tien Chau, 17 miles northwest of Hanoi, and they believe that somewhere in a deep gumbo of mud, water and old rice stalks lay the remains of Air Force Capt. Lawrence Evert.

President Bill Clinton visited the excavation site Saturday, the second day of his historic trip to communist Vietnam, and he was accompanied by his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, their daughter, Chelsea, and ...

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