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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, Oct. 28, 1971
South Viet to free POWs
By ARTHUR HIGBEE
SAIGON (UPl)—The South
Vietnamese government today
announced it will free 618 Viet
Cong prisoners of war Sunday
to celebrate the inauguration of
President Nguyen Van Thieu.
The amnesty program involved
eventual freedom for another
2,320 POWs and constituted the
largest prisoner release of the
Indochina War.
As the amnesty was an
nounced, the U.S. command
said it was putting all
American troops in Vietnam on
alert as of Friday because of
an expected surge in Commu
nist attacks and civil disorders
this weekend.
U.S. military spokesmen said
it had reports that a sharp
increase in terrorist attacks,
shellings and firebombings
were likely to protest the
inaugural.
The U.S. command also
disclosed that seven American
Gls were killed in the war last
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week, including one who died in
a downed plane in Laos.
It brought to 45,584 the
number of Americans killed in
action in the Indochina War
since Jan. 1, 1961.
The South Vietnamese lost
294 killed last week and a
spokesman said “most of the
deaths came in Military Region
HI,” the 11 provinces surround
ing Saigon.
To the north in Hue, floods
sent ax-foot deep torrents of
water through streets following
36 hours of heavy rain and
forced evacuation of parts of
Quang Tri City.
The amnesty by the South
Vietnamese government
brought the largest release of
POWs of the Vietnam War.
The Ministry of Defense said
618 prisoners, 176 of them
partly disabled, were being
released outright from POW
camps throughout South Viet
nam.
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Another 2,320 prisoners in
cluding 36 disabled POWs are
to be designated ralliers to the
South Vietnamese side under
the government’s so-called
“open arms” program for
defectors. They will be freed
after perhaps three months, the
communique said.
The Defense Ministry said the
POWs involved were Viet Cong,
and no North Vietnamese
troops were included.
The amnesty announcement
coincided with reports from the
United States that members of
the U.S. Senate were told that a
major breakthrough on the
prisoners of war issue might be
imminent. The report could not
be verified.
The South Vietnamese De
fense Ministry communique
said, “The released POWs are
being given clemency from the
government of South Vietnam.
They have shown repentance
and good discipline during their
detainment. They have submit
ted demands to be released or
to enjoy the status of ralliers.
The release is being done as a
humanitarian gesture.”
On battlefronts, South Vietna
mese troops killed nine Viet
Cong 44 miles southwest of
Saigon in the Mekong Delta
Wednesday at a cost of four
government soldiers wounded.
The South Vietnamese also
reported a clash a mile west of
the Central Highlands helicop
ter base at Tan Canh in
Kontum Province. The govern
ment communique said five
Viet Cong were killed without
any South Vietnamese casual
ties.
Reports from neighboring
Cambodia said Communist
troops attacking in the dark
ness Wednesday killed 17 and
wounded more than 100 Cambo
dian soldiers and civilians in a
series of coordinated assaults
north of Phnom Penh. Commu
nist casualties were listed as 30
dead.
In Phnom Penh, the Cambo
dian government announced
today that that national curren
cy, known as the riel, will be
floated starting Friday in what
the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) called a “cou-
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