Word: dich
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TIME photographer Greg Davis and I were in Hanoi for our first meeting with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others...
...Dich warned that it would be a long and difficult journey. A U.S. investigator who had made the trek agreed. But a new witness -- Luong Van Phe, who was chief of police in Truong Tien village at the time of the crash -- had surfaced. He claimed that he knew precisely where the graves were and had even found some personal effects...
...dead Americans, perhaps to be used as a bargaining chip at some future date. Forensic examination of some recently returned bodies indicates that the bones that have been returned were stored aboveground. The charge that they have been holding back the bodies of MIAs incenses the Vietnamese. Says Dich: "We have not been detaining any live Americans and we do not have a storehouse full of remains. That is why we are willing to let Americans look all over Vietnam...