European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 28, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 28, 1968 the stars and stripes  teams Start 10-Day search for clues to mias from plane crashes Bangkok Thailand a  teams drove into the villages of Northern Vietnam monday to launch an unprecedented search for wit Nesses of plane crashes in which Ameri can servicemen were lost during he Vietnam War an official said. Two joint teams headed to areas North of the capita Hanoi in jeeps flown in from Honolulu by . Military experts for the10-Day search said Mai. Thomas j. Boyd spokesman for the . Pacific come. This is the first joint activity that involve racking Down of missing in action Mia cases lie said the teams Are investigating loss incidents that occurred and trying to interview individuals who May possess information surrounding the Inci dents it could result in future warplane crash site  he said the teams will try to gather evidence such As the soldiers personnel effects and local government reports of he incidents. They brought along Metal detectors and forensic equipment in Castany human remains Are found. Boyd said the joint teams will focus on seven cases of servicemen lost in plane crashes As the teams search in Bac Thailand Vinh Phu provinces about 40 Miles Northwest of Hanoi and in Lang Sonand a Bac provinces about 30 Miles Northeast of the capital.  seven cases arc among 70 discrepancy cases the United states has declared urgent and has asked Vietnam to resolve claiming there is evidence that the men  came under vietnamese control. However Washington says in has no evidence that the men remain alive today 15 years after . Forces with-., Drew from Vietnam. The United states has declared i Hopes for Many More such joint projects in the coming months to resolve the Rales of 1,757 americans missing in Vietnam and added it is prepared to provide four investigation teams. The . Experts who arrived i Hanoi sunday Are from the . Joint casualty Resolution Center and the army Central identification Laboratory both Honolulu Bawd units  s wartime missing. The Leader is it. Col. Joe Harvey commander of the Center. ,-."" the three americans on each Tea will be working with officials of Viet Nam s office Foi seeking missing per sons. Boyd surf the . Side brought in eight motor Cycle for the vietnamese to scout villages before the joint teams arrive " Vietnam s foreign minister  us Pic idol Tylli t Mil Dell a rules kill jvi14iu"-  he said the teams May also search Ait co Thach and a . Presidential envoy area in Hai Hung and a Nam finh retired Gen. John w. Pc Scy agreed to provinces some 50 Miles Southeast of the joint projects in june. Work was delayed after Thach criticized what recalled America s hostile policy of Iso lating Vietnam for its military occupation of Cambodia. The Only previous joint Field activity was the late 198s excavation of a . B 52 bomber just outside Hanoi. No re Mains were found and Vietnam was slow in responding to repeated . Re quests for More joint projects.  said another .scheduled to Fly tuesday to Lam to sur vey plate crash Sites in thu Castern be Pone area  joint  United  547 americans lost in Laos include airmen downed in missions to cd Foltete to Chi Minh Trail who Cutie North vietnamese com Monist Luied to infiltrate Len and sup pics of the front in us gift cd South Vietnam. A total of 2,393 americans Aretini Tudas missing in Southeast Asia As a of the Vietnam War. Eighty three a listed As in Cambodia and six in China. Boyd said that since . Involve ment in the War ended in 1973, the United states has received the remains of 190 missing personnel. Of these 162 wherefrom Vietnam 26 from Laos and two from China he said. He said that the United states has identified 18 of the 77 remains Vietnam has returned since Thach and Vesse agreed in August 1967 to accelerate co operation on humanitarian issues. Israelis get tips to halt polio spread Jerusalem the health ministry on sunday urged israelis Teyf Simbat an outbreak offy observing rules of by including washing fruit and _ tables with soap and water. The government set up a taskforce to improve the nation s sew age treatment facilities which have been blamed for at least nine confirmed cases of polio near Tel Aviv state radio and the health ministry said. Health officials continued vaccination campaigns for the 200,000 people in and around the towns of Hadera 3d milies North of Tel Aviv and Ramla and led which Are near the City. The Cabinet decided against uni Versal immunization for the coun try s 4.4 million population and in Stead agreed to continue checking and vaccinating people a lamination was found. A sold stand police officers Arcto be vaccinated a Orcas where polio cases have been reported. Health officials  Israel faced an epidemic but the radio announced the number of a polio hotline and said it will broadcast a two Bour program on polio. Dodds Roundup m8 Dodds students in scholarship semifinals Washington is eighteen Jig school seniors from the department of defense dependents schools including 13 in Europe Are among 14,000 semifinalists in the 1989 National Merit Schula whip Competition. / the stud Ink among the lop one half of 1percent of the ration s academically talented students Are competing for about 6,000 scholarships Worth a collective $23 Moltion. Semifinalists Are the lop scifers in their respective Stales with Dodus considered a slate who took the preliminary Scholastic aptitude test As juniors finalists will be select by committees that will Analyse students academic and extracurricular accomplishments Nigl school course Load subject difficulty grads  and demonstrated leadership find contributions to the school and Community \ the Dodds semifinalists m. Europe arc Christopher Jordan shape Belgium Elizabeth Fargey and Robert Wheatley Laker Theale eng land Megan Botnan accent Netherlands Michael Gibson Naples Italy and Scott Dix scr Izmir Turkey and from West Germany Chris Patterson Augsburg Jfhn Echols bad or Cugnach Rober Skidmore Frankfurt Rachel Jones Osler Hob Kim Borlev Schwac for Ramstein a Bri Anmoore Wiesbaden Arnold and Michael Gen Rich win Foburg. Cts in june. 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