DEVELOPMENTS IN INDOCHINA

Created: 11/12/1974

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Developments in Indochina

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DEVELOPMENTS IN INDOCHINA

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LAOS

Prisoner Exchanges

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Communists releaseddditional captives on Novemberhus completing the fifth and final phase of the prisoner exchange agreement called for by the Lao Accords

ill of the prisoners involved in the closing swap were Lao. They were set free at the village of Pak Ou, northeast of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. These releases raise the total number of prisoners repatriated by the Lao Communistshai, and 1contract pilot Emmet Kay. Left uncertain, however, is the fate of moredditional Thais believed to have been incarcerated by the Pathet Lao.

Tho non-Communisii aide released all of itsNorth Vietnamese and 7the initial exchange on the Plaine des Jarres in northern Laos on

The prisoner exchanges were conducted under tho auspices of the coalition government's Joint Central Commission to Implement the Agreement. The commission may now be prepared to dealumber of other high priority tasks assigned to it by3 Accordsi

search for personnel missing in action*

resettlement of refugees}

reoponing of roads between the two zones,

demarcation of cease-tire boundary lines betveon tha two xones.

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