The World - News from Sept. 1, 1987

A private U.S. think tank said it has “irrefutable” evidence that American servicemen are still imprisoned in Laos. The conservative American Defense Institute released U.S. government documents quoting Laotian informants as saying that Air Force Maj. Morgan J. Donahue and five other “unknown” Americans are being held at a prison in Khammouan province. The Administration, however, has not given much credence to the Laotian informants. Former Rep. Bill Hendon (R-N.C.), director of the institute’s POW Policy Center, charged that several cases of prisoner sightings have been swept under the rug by defense officials. Officially, 549 Americans are still listed as missing in Laos.