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- Subject: NEWS/VN: Hanoi postpones trial of hijacker
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 14:53:20 GMT
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- VIETNAM POSTPONES TRIAL OF HIJACKER
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- HANOI, Nov 12, Reuter - Vietnam has postponed the trial of a former south
- Vietnamese air force pilot who could face the death sentence for hijacking an
- airliner to drop anti-government leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City.
- Supreme Court officials said late on Wednesday that the trial of Ly Tong, a
- Vietnamese-born naturalised U.S. citizen, which was due to be held in Ho Chi
- Minh City on Thursday and Friday had been postponed and no new date set.
- Tong was captured on September 4, hours after he hijacked a Vietnam
- Airlines plane flying in from Bangkok and dropped leaflets from the cockpit
- urging people to overthrow the government.
- No one on the plane was hurt and police captured him on the southern
- outskirts of the city after he parachuted out of the cockpit.
- Tong was first captured in 1975 before communist forces defeated the
- U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government. He escaped from a re-education camp in
- 1980 and travelled 2,500 km (1,600 miles) across Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia
- and Singapore before being resettled in the United States.
- An official newspaper said earlier this month that Tong would be tried for
- hijacking and attempting to overthrow the government. Both charges carry a
- maximum penalty of death.
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