U.S. search
to resume
in Vietnam

U.S. officials hope to return soon to the central highlands of Vietnam to resume operations to account for 110 missing American servicemen.

The Department of Defense announced last week that U.S. and Vietnamese technical experts will meet in September in Pleiku, Vietnam, to review cases and interview witnesses as an initial step to resuming operations.

Access to the region has been delayed for three years because of what the department said was "local unrest," the New York Times reported.

There are still 1,855 Americans missing from the Vietnam War. Of the 88,000 missing from all conflicts, more than 125 are from the Cold War, 8,100 are from the Korean War, and 78,000 are unaccounted-for from World War II.

The Washington Times reported last week that the United States is considering relocating the headquarters functions of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to a base on Guam by transferring most of the personnel by October.

The newspaper quoted senior officials of Japan's Self-Defense Forces who said the two countries plan to integrate the functions of the 13th Air Force in Guam into the 5th Air Force at Yokota.