The World - News from Nov. 4, 1988

Vietnam turned over to a U.S. military team what it believes are the remains of 23 Americans unaccounted for since the Vietnam War, a U.S. spokesman said in Bangkok, Thailand. A U.S. military honor guard solemnly saluted as the remains, in coffins draped with folded U.S. flags, were loaded onto a C-141 transport plane during a short ceremony at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport, Maj. Dan Trout said. The plane left the Vietnamese capital for Guam, en route to Honolulu. There, the U.S. Central Identification Laboratory will try to confirm the preliminary analyses done by the Vietnamese, said Trout, spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Command.