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Dallas businessman H. Ross Perot arrived
EATON: LIVE
in Laos today with his gift-laden chartered airlines and indicated he may stay for several weeks to try to convince Hanoi officials to let him take the presents to American prisoners in North Viet Nam. Shortly after arriving Perot met with a Pathet Lao delegation and said he planned to extend his mission to American prisoners in Laos. According to non-official sources the Pathet Lao are holding about 200 U.S. prisoners of the war inside Laos. The pea-green Braniff International jetliner in which perot flew from Bancock remained at tiny Vientian airport where about 100 people, many of there Americans came to see it fly in. The plane and another one waiting in Los Angles are loaded with Christmas gifts, good and medical supplies for 1,400 men. So far the North Vietnamese have turned down Perots efforts, but he remains undaunted and optimistic and has requested another meeting for tommorow Perots mission is called "Operation
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.).[News Script: Perot Operation Understanding update],
script,
December 25, 1969, 12:00 p.m.;
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