Cambodia to Release Captured American
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BANGKOK, Thailand — The government of Cambodia announced Friday that it will release an American Vietnam War veteran arrested for illegally crossing the border more than a year ago.
“The government of the People’s Republic of Kampuchea (Cambodia) has decided to release Sterling Brian Bono, an American citizen who was captured on May 2, 1987, while illegally intruding into Kampuchea,” the official SPK news agency reported.
The report did not say when Bono, 35, a native of Las Animas, Colo., would be released.
Bono told a Thai friend that he was going into Cambodia to search for some of the 83 American servicemen missing in action in Cambodia before he disappeared near the Thai-Cambodian border.
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