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' IAliveonwell’ reportHAMMOND AIRFIELD, South Vietnam,. Jan. 22/ (Reuters):' • An attractive aubnrn-haireil ’woman journalist kidnapped by the Viet Cong was said.; tonight to be aliye and, well Bomewherejn the South Vietnamese jungle.Former Fren^ model Michele Ray, 28, has been missing Hire days . since. seUing out atone to drive through. South . Vietnam,Her car, a white Renault Dan-phine, was found by South Viet-psmese tooups .yesterday 200 miles v northeast of Saigon, It ms -mined imd-'booby^ trapped. There was no sign of the girl and, now a blonde said inMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. 21(Reuters):A blonde, • beardless Major Ernesto “Che'’ oCfuevara, former Cuban Industries Minister whose whereabouts have' been a mystery for more than a year, slipped through Montevideo In-tenwttonal Aixpori^Christmas, government sourcessaid here today. \They said-the-information was supplied by the Army Intelligence. Service in..-. neighbouring Argentina. Guevarat ouce black-halred and bearded*- used false document! -to * enter - Uruguay, they.said. V. \The former right-hand man of Cuban ’ Premier Fidel . Castro! came here from Buenos Aires, the source# said,TMi information was given to the president of the UW-ruajnn Nations! Government Council* when he held a top. level private meeting last night to discuss the discovery of alleged leftwtog terrorist cells here, the awree* scald, -r Castro has repeatedly affirmed Guevara was alive and doing a specific job, but has offered no further details,A welter of report# have been received around Latin America from people claiming to have seen him.A television newscaster to Buenos Aires, Argentina, said earlier this ;month Guevara left ths Argentine capital for Bolivia after a short stay..at one point she was feared dead.But South Vietnamese military reports reaching here ■ tonight said she was alive and being marched northward by the Viet Cong. . V . *• ’ *• United States helicopters set out from this central South Vietnamese base tu ahower leaflets over the Viet Gong-held area# of tha rainswept - Bong ; Son plain appealing to local Vietnamese to help find the girh •A.spokesman for the U45, First Air Cavalry Division, which is battling for control of thht region said helicopters- had broadcast messages in Vietnamese about the missing girl.- The\ messages -r apparently aimed at the Viet Cong — stressed that Mias Ray wat a French Citizen and held American documents only because she . was an accredited correspondent covering the war, .• . ... - “. The broadcasts * followed the captureof a Viet Cong document saying guerrilla# had captured s French correspondent who was ^obviously working for the Americans” because she was carrying-Amcrtcan papers.. An unconfirmed: report . reaching, the South Vietnamese bead quarters at Bac • Thien north of there Sunday said Miss Ray had been executed, but this was said Sunday night to be completely unfounded. The American si ikesman said the Cavalry Division “has sympathy with this girl and wc have done what we could.” But although helicopters and planes over the area had been asked to look for her* no specific operation was mounted to find her.Uflv officers .advised her against making the part of her soutb-to-north . ca/ journey which took her along Route One through Bong Son.One officer said the countryside was* deceptively quiet and beautiful here* but it wa* '‘tomorrow Ypu Die” terrain, where some of the bloodiest fighting of the war has taken place*By Ernie BttshmiUer*» Ml*
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Kingston Gleaner
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Mon, Jan 23, 1967
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