Sunday, June 4, 1972
POW Kin Ask Reds To Tell What Happened To 1,200 GIs
STOCKHOLM (UPI) --A delegation representing the families of U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia appealed Friday for international pressure on North Vietnam to find out what happened to more than 1,200 Americans listed as "missing."The delegation representing "The National League of Families" was led by the league chairman, Mrs. Stephen Hanson, wife of Marine Corps Capt. Stephen Hanson, who has been missing in Laos since June 3, 1967.The group, which visited Geneva, Paris and Oslo before coming to Stockholm, told a news conference almost 1,700 American servicemen are known to be missing or captured but only 339 have been identified as actual prisoners by Hanoi."Still, even after this long passage of time, more than 1,200 of our men are still listed as "missing", Mrs. Hanson said.The delegation also showed documentation containing pictures of some of the 151 "missing" U.S. servicemen who were said to have been seen alive or even photographed after they disappeared. The Communists however disclaim any knowledge of these men, Mrs. Hanson said.Joe McCain, in charge of the league's discrepancies committee and brother of Navy Lt. Cmdr. John McCain who was captured in North Vietnam on Oct. 25, 1967, emphasized the group never has asked for the release of the American POWs but only for identification of all of them."POW Kin Ask Reds to Tell What Happened to 1,200 GIs", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes Sunday, June 4, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.