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VIETNAM: US NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ANTHONY LAKE MISSION

(13 Jul 1996) English/Nat US National Security Adviser Anthony Lake has returned to Vietnam, 31 years after he served there as a diplomat during the Vietnam war. Lake used his visit to go to central Vietnam on a mission that recalled the sacrifice and tragedy of the war - the search for soldiers missing in action. He said Vietnam's assistance in clarifying the fate of wartime missing had enabled Washington to push relations with Hanoi forward in other areas. U-S National Security Adviser Anthony Lake took time off from meetings with Vietnamese officials Saturday to travel to Quang Tri province. He headed off to Site Thirteen-seventy-two - a steep jungle hillside where an American helicopter crashed during the Vietnam War. It's one of dozens of locations where teams of Vietnamese and Americans search for the remains of the thousands of Americans still missing in action from the war. Lake used the occasion to praise the American G-Is who'd fought for their country - often given their lives. SOUNDBITE: "I think the point is that American soldiers fought very bravely, as they were sent here to do. The policies were not theirs to make. And I for one feel extremely strongly that America did not do service to them in putting any blame for what happened on the men who died here or fought here and returned." SUPER CAPTION: Anthony Lake, U-S National Security Adviser After scrambling down a steep path from a hilltop landing zone, Lake inspected the site where an Army helicopter crashed in 1969. A joint US-Vietnamese excavation team has found teeth, bones, insignia and a dog tag from the six Americans and two South Vietnamese who were on board. The team now hopes they'll be able to identify the remains - teeth resist decay in the acidic jungle soil and can be identified through dental records. But the search for MIAs not running as smooth as at Site Thirteen-seventy-two. Even though there are still over 25-hundred Americans listed as missing - not only in Vietnam but Laos and Cambodia as well - the joint task force is running out of information, clues and sites it can explore. Despite the setbacks though, Lake was quick to assert that Vietnam's assistance in clarifying the fate of wartime missing had enabled Washington to push relations forward. He said the two former enemies, who opened diplomatic relations one year ago, have common interests in cooperating on economic, refugee and strategic issues. SOUNDBITE: "After the elections as before this is not a partisan issue in the U-S. That said the cooperation with the Vietnamese government has been very good. My talks here suggest that it will continue to be very good, and we will be moving on in our other relationships with Vietnam both now and into the future. SUPER CAPTION: Anthony Lake, U-S National Security Adviser He added the U-S understood that Vietnamese were still suffering the after-effects of the war. He named the effects of the defoliant chemical Agent Orange, the widespread minefields and the 300-thousand Vietnamese who went missing-in-action. SOUNDBITE: SUPER CAPTION: Anthony Lake, U-S National Security Adviser After leaving the site, Lake flew in a Russian-made helicopter to Hue, where he served as U-S vice consul in the early 1960s. He was scheduled to go on to Ho Chi Minh City for a meeting with Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet before flying on to South Korea and Japan on Sunday. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...