| Show r J0 14A The Salt Lake Tribune Friday September 18 ISK Leaflets Afloat With Hopes for MIAs NAKHON PHANOM Thailand (AP) — Thai authorities on Thursday blocked relatives of missing American soldiers from launching 2500 balloons into Laos but message-lade- n allowed them to float the messages down the Mekong River The messages offered 22 4 million in reward money to anyone who rescued American servicemen the group believes have been held prisoner since the Indochina war The Thai Foreign Ministry said the balloon launch would have amounted to using Thai soil “to conduct psychological warfare against Laos Six members of the American group lost relatives during the long war in which about 2400 servicemen are still listed as missing in action Of these 544 were lost in Laos The group was escorted to the pro-vinci- al Relatives of missing Americans send leaf- lets down Mekong River offering reward police headquarters and letter from the Interior Ministry forbidding the launch After for rescue of servicemen Thai officials i shown a brief blocked original plan to launch balloons I talks between the two sides authorities allowed the river launch Three members of the group threw plastic bags containing the reward offers into the Mekong while the others applauded and cheered them on Then all joined in wading into the river and pushing the water forward with sticks or their hands to get the bags moving towards the current The packages hugging the Thai shore floated out of sight as darkness “this river goes for 700 miles to the ocean It passes through Laos Cambodia and Vietnam the very countries where our men are being held” said Elizabeth Stewart a Washington DC attorney whose father’s plane was shot down in Indochina 21 yean ago “We have found our vehicle — the Mekong” The reward offer is written in Vietnamese and Laotian and also includes a cartoon of an Indochina out of peasant secreting an American his homeland and getting a bprof ' gold in return Bill Hendon a former Republican Caroliba congressmen from North said the small packages were heada route where ing downstream along he claimed a number of Americans had been sighted Hendon said the group had not contacted Thai authorities for permission to launch the balloons before be- fore arriving in Thailand n Wednesday The State Department'siid that the balloon launch could hurt official efforts to account for the missing It said goverament-to-governmecooperation was the most effective way of resolving the Wednesday nt ISSU6 “Well we frown on the State Deprogress on the MIAIls-su-e partment’s over the past said 14 years" Hendon - r 1 He Says War Is Over vfbiffiamt&hm anoj vunmllm sna Cadhafi Claims Ouster of Chadian Army ROME (AP) — Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi says his troops have ousted Chad's forces from a disputed border zone and claims the war is over Libya’s official news agency said Thursday ton® Chad's ambassador to France O called Gadhafi’s statement “a flagrant manifestation of dishonesty ” "By these words Gadhafi wants to impose on Africa and the international community his policy of ‘fait accompli’ of annexation and of expansion into Chad” said Ambassador Ahmad Allam-M- i Libya’s JANA news agency in a dispatch monitored in Rome quoted Gadhafi as saying the war “is over after the dogs of war were pushed out of Aouzou destroyed m In 1973 Libya annexed Aouzou a disputed border strip President Hissene Habre of Chad has vowed to reclaim the area which is believed to be rich in uranium and other minerals refers to Matan-as-Sar- a the site of a Libyan air base which Chad said it seized in an attack nearly two weeks ago Libya in turn claimed 'Co have crushed the Chadians at the I base more than 60 miles north of the ‘ internationally recognized border JANA quoted Gadhafi as saying I’that Libya “stood inside jts international territories closing forever its MrobUers with Chad leaving Chad for the Chadians” The pews agency said Gadhafi lmadef ther declaration at a rally ' Wednesday night at Saioug in Libya ' In a drive that began in January Chadian forces pushed Gadhafi’s troops from most of northern Chad Libya claims the Aouzou strip un- der a never-ratifie- d War II ‘treaty between France and Italy During African colonial days France governed Chad and Italy governed Libya Last month Chad ousted Libyan forces from Aouzou but 20 days later on Aug 28 Gadhafi’s forces said they recaptured the area ! 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