Monday, May 1, 1972
2 Newsmen Still Missing
PHNOM PENH (UPI) --No word has been heard of two journalists, one American and one Australian, and their Cambodian driver since they disappeared from a Cambodian highway Wednesday.The car the three were driving was found on Highway 1, about 28 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, shortly after eyewitnesses said they saw the trio being led through open country to the west.The car showed no signs of struggle, and camera equipment lay untouched inside it.The three were identified as Terry Reynolds, 30, a freelance writer from Grainfield, Kan., on assignment for United Press International, Alan Hirons, 24, of Melbourne, Australia, a freelance photographer, and a UPI driver.The stretch of well-traveled highway on which the three were reported missing Saturday was still open to civilian as well as military traffic, and other journalists traveling the road Wednesday said the road appeared to have been blocked only "for a matter of a couple of hours."One Cambodian soldier was seen dead on the road, shot through the head, a few hundred meters from the journalists' abandoned car. However, reports from the area later in the week said the three had been seen not far from the road several hours after being led away. Those reports said the trio were apparently unharmed.The disappearance of the three brings to 20 the number of foreign journalists missing in Cambodia since April, 1970. Another 16 have been released from captivity and nine have been found dead."2 Newsmen Still Missing", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Monday, May 1, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.