Correspondents: Mich

Michèle Is Missing

The Green Berets named a search-and-clear mission after her. Landing lights and television cameras were trained on her when she visited an aircraft carrier, and the sailors were later treated to an "Hour with Michele" over closed-circuit sets. After she spent a night in the field with the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku, the soldiers nailed a sign to a tree: "Michele Slept Here." But last week Michele Ray, the red- haired, 29-year-old French beauty and ex-model, was nowhere to be found: she had been captured by the Viet Cong.

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