From: edwind@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (T. NGUYEN)
Subject: Perot is mentally unstable!
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Date: 13 Aug 1992 11:17 EST  

In article <1992Aug12.175732.20773@news.media.mit.edu>, you write...
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>08/11
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>Perot said he was Vietnamese assassination target

AFTER READING THE ARTICLE BELOW AND OBSERVING WHAT ROSS PEROT HAS BEEN 
DOING IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS, I HAVE COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THIS 
GUY IS MENTALLY UNSTABLE.  WHAT DO YOU THINK???

T.NGUYEN


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>	 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Texas billionaire and former independent
>presidential candidate Ross Perot told a Senate committee Tuesday that
>North Vietnam plotted to kill him in the 1970s because of his work on
>behalf of American prisoners of war in Indochina.
>	``The Vietnamese sent people to Canada in the 1970s with instructions
>to kill me and my family,'' Perot told the Select Committee on Prisoner
>of War/Missing in Action Affairs.
>	None of the 11 senators present questioned Perot about the assertion.
>	``They invited me to Hanoi,'' Perot said of a visit which he made to
>the Vietnamese capital in 1987. ``That was a surprise to me because they
>had tried to kill me. They didn't get to my house, but they got to my
>yard.''
>	Perot had attempted unsuccessfully to go to Hanoi at Christmas 1969
>with mail and medicine for the American prisoners. The effort brought
>widespread publiclicity to the plight of American prisoners and, they
>said on their released, resulted in better treatment by their captors.
>	Perot repeated his conviction that U.S. servicemen were left behind
>in Indochina after Hanoi officially released what it said were all of
>its American prisoners of war in 1973. ``We left men in Laos,'' Perot
>said, ``There's no question that we left men in Laos.''
>	But Perot provided little fresh evidence to bolster his conviction.
>He cited his 1969 conversation with a Laotian official who claimed that
>the Communist Pathet Lao held ``10s of 10s'' of Americans, far more than
>the nine Americans and one Canadian captured in Laos and officially
>identified in early 1973.
>	But that same Lao official later told the committee that his
>statement had been ``propaganda.''
>	Perot cited a March 1973 memorandum from Lawrence Eagleburger, then
>acting assistant secretary of defense, to then Defense Secretary Elliot
>Richardson, saying additional Americans were possibly held prisoner in
>Laos. The Pentagon published the memo last month as part of a general
>release of documents on Americans still missing in Indochina.
>	Perot noted that only weeks after the Eagelburger memo was written,
>Roger Shields, then head of the Pentagon's prisoner of war task force,
>stated officially: ``We have no indication at this time that there are
>any Americans missing in Indochina.''
>	Shields earlier testified that he disapproved of that statement, but
>had been ordered to make it by his superior, Deputy Defense Secretary
>William Clements. Clements is to testify later.
>	Perot said a reported satellite photograph taken as recently as 1988
>shows a Laotian rice paddy in which the letters ``U.S.A.'' and ``K,'' an
>Air Force code for ``pilot in distress,'' appeared to have been treaded
>into the dirt. The committee is studying the photograph.
>	Asked by Sen. Hank Brown, R.-Colo., whether he could suggest any
>further ``sources the committee has not heard from,'' Perot answered 
>``signals intelligence,'' the official term for intercepted foreign
>communications. ``Signals intelligence is a world class operation,''
>Perot said, ``there's no reason why that should remain classified.''
>	Perot spoke of a ``cover up'' of the fate of the missing Americans
>and warned that ``history is being rewritten.'' He was critical of the
>government's efforts to develop information on the missing Americans. 
>``If you want to get in trouble in a refugee camp,'' he said, ``just say
>you've seen an American.''
>	The Texan was challenged on that point by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.,
>a former prisoner in Vietnam, who noted that it was contrary to
>expressed U.S. policy.
>	McCain said that in the early days of the search for missing
>Americans, refugees often fabricated reports about missing Americans in
>order to gain preferental treatment.
>	Perot said he had gotten his information from a Drug Enforcement
>Administration agent formerly stationed in Thailand, but could not
>recall the agent's name.
>	Perot said Vietnam could be induced to release missing Americans
>through negotiations that offered economic aid. ``The people over there
>desperately need us,'' he said, ``they want desperately to be part of
>the world community.
>	``They feel that they won the war and we treat them as though they
>lost the war. Send someone to Vietnam to negotiate. Give that person the
>freedom to send a positive message.''
>	Noting allegations that in 1981 Hanoi offered President Ronald Reagan
>a chance to ransom missing Americans for $4 billion, Perot asked, ``Why
>don't we take the $4 billion offer from the Vietnamese?''
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