U S offers asylum to Soviet MIG25 pilot in Japan
Lt. Viktor I. Belenko, 29, who landed a MIG25 at Hakodate, seeks asylum in the United States. White House and Japanese officials hint he will be welcomed if he asks, while U S and Japanese experts inspect the aircraft. Soviet protests mount over access to the pilot and plane.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Foreign Ministry
Viktor I. Belenko
U.S
White House
Ron Nessen
Washington
Belenko
Soviet Union
Japanese Fire Ministry
Hakodate
Air Force
Robert Seamans
Port Moody girl found held prisoner for six months
Thirteen year old Abby Drover of Port Moody near Vancouver was found Tuesday in a room under a neighbor's garage after six months of captivity. Police say she was starved and weak. A 43 year old man known to her was arrested and will face kidnapping and rape charges.
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Abby Drover
Port Moody
Vancouver
B.C
UPI
Hunger strike grows among American inmates in Mexico City
Mexican officials report 50 of 140 American prisoners and two Canadians joined a hunger strike to press U S officials for negotiations. Sergio Garcia Ramirez says 13 ceased eating at Norte prison and 39 began fasting at Oriente prison.
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Mexico City
U.S
Sergio Garcia Ramirez
Federal
Norte Prison
Oriente Prison
POWs Alive After Shoot Downs Named By Pentagon Expert
Pentagon POW expert Dr. Roger Shields says Hanoi listed two missing pilots Capling and Waters as dead despite U S officials believing they were alive when captured. Capling shot down in 1968 and Waters in 1966, with Ford demanding full accounting of all missing during Vietnam war.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
Pentagon
Roger Shields
Shields
Air Force
Elwyn R. Capling
Samuel E. Waters
Hanoi
U.S
Paris
Ford
United Nations
North Vietnam
United States
Capling
Detroit
Waters
Mocksville
N.C
Narragansett wife holds slim hope for missing Vietnam pilot
Jean Eaton of Narragansett remains cautious about her husband Curtis Eaton, an Air Force colonel shot down over North Vietnam in 1965, after a Pentagon notice listed him as killed. She recalls his Alaska crash survival in 1955 and says a name alone is not enough to end her hope.
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Vietnam
Ields
Hanoi
United States
North Vietnam
Pentagon
Narragansett, R.1
Jean Eaton
Narragansett
Air Force
Maj. Eaton
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