# New South Vietnamese thrust

## Saigon

A South Vietnamese armored strike force of 100 vehicles and thousands of troops drove into eastern Cambodia Friday in a new thrust designed to destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base camps.

News of March 9 and 10 compiled from wire reports.

Enemy Bunkers in Cambodia
Reported Destroyed by B-52's

The New York Times/March 12, 1972

B-52's struck at enemy base in Cambodia (cross).

TAYNINH, South Vietnam, March 11 (AP)—United States B-52's bombed a North Vietnamese base in eastern Cambodia, collapsing reinforced-concretes bunkers, destroying supplies and food and killings, a number of enemy troops, military authorities said today.

The raids were carried out in support of a 5,000-man South Vietnamese ground thrust spearheaded by more than 100 armored vehicles that began yesterday in an area ranging 75 to 100 miles northwest of Saigon.

The military authorities said that the bombers had destroyed up 30 to 40 bunkers, each 30 feet long, 20 feet wide and 15 feet deep. They reported that large stores of supplies and five tons of rice had been destroyed. Aerial observers spotted at least three enemy bodies in a bunkers, they added.

The raids were carried out about 12 miles inside Cambodia in an enemy base area northwest of Tayninh.

The South Vietnamese Gov-
ernment forces are pushing
northward from Routes 1 and
13 through eastern Cambodia
in a dry-season offensive that
senior officers say is aimed at
disrupting the enemy's supply
system for South Vietnam's
Military Region III. The region
includes Saigon and 11 sur-

rounding provinces.

There has been no major
fighting reported, but 21 enemy
sappers were reported killed
and one captured in an opera-
tion on the South Vietnamese
side of the border southwest
of Tayninh. One South Viet-
namese soldier was reported
killed and three wounded.

The sappers were said to be
from a battalion of about 120
soldiers. The South Vietnamese
reportedly rushed in reinforce-
ments to surround the area,
and about 1,000 Government
troops were sweeping the re-
gion.

# Allies Claim New Gains In Cambodia

SAIGON, March 14 (AP)— The allied commands reported today a series of victories along South Vietnam's western borders, including the destruction by bombers of a major enemy headquarters in eastern Cambodia.

Field reports claimed at least 166 North Vietnamese killed, 3 tanks and 13 other vehicles knocked out and more than 100 bunkers and huge quantities of supplies destroyed.

Senior U.S. advisers in the field said U.S. B52 bomber strikes sent about 200 enemy troops fleeing in disarray yesterday from their headquarters, 15 miles across the border and about 85 miles northwest of Saigon.

There was no confirmed count of enemy killed, U.S. advisers said, but one prisoner told interrogators 30 were killed by air strikes. Another four were deported killed by artillery bombardments.

U.S. helicopter pilots reported sighting mangled bodies strewn across the base camp, in bunkers and bomb craters.

## Lon Nol Takes Oath
### As Cambodias Ruler

From News Dispatches

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 14—Sherwal Lon Nol swore himself in as president today as Buddhist monks chanted their approval and balloons and doves soared skyward.

Lon Nol, who seized all civilian and military power over the weekend, was accompanied at the ceremony by his close associate Sisowath Sirik Matak, adding to the belief that Sirik Matak will continue to be his chief deputy. Elsewhere in the city, university students called a strike and occupied classrooms to show their opposition to any role in the government for Sirik Matak.

many of the 10 provinces and
financial interests throughout
Canada want the country to
remain open to maximum U.S.
investment.

Ontario is already devel-
oped; Alberta has gotten rich
on U.S. investment in its oil,
and the maritime provinces
dream of even a Hershey choco-
late factory to help mitigate
their poverty.

For these reasons, one of
the highest-ranking members
of the Trudeau administration,
who asked not to be identified,
said: "The position we're
going to take will be so weak
you'll wonder why we bother-
ered. The reason? Because
we're chicken."

Traseau is expected to
choose from a variety of rec-
ommendations made in a re-
port last year by Herb Gray,
his minister of revenue. The
report was leaked in the maga-
zine Canadian Forum last
November. One of Trudeau's
aides said the long delay since
the leak had been used to feed
back reactions to shape the
final government policy. Most
of these reactions presumably
came from the business and fi-
nancial communities.

## Screen Takeovers

The government is expected
to set up, as a minimum, an
agency of process to screen fu-
ture takeovers of existing Ca-
nadian companies by foreign
interests.

It could conceivably develop
limits on foreign investment
in key sectors of the economy
or take other measures to di-
rect Canadian savings into
more productive investments.
Common stocks presently take
a low priority among Cana-
dian savers.

While U.S. business seems
ready to go along with much

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# B-52s Hit Cambodia, Destroy Enemy Base

SAIGON, March 15 (AP)—U.S. B-52 bombers pounding the enemy in eastern Cambodia demolished another North Vietnamese base camp today and South Vietnamese ground forces claimed victory in a clash just a mile away.

The bombers, supporting a 7,000-man South Vietnamese drive, ripped up 500 small bunkers and destroyed two trucks 15 miles from the South Vietnamese border, government spokesmen reported. The base bordered another camp where the B-52s were reported to have destroyed bunkers, supplies and trucks yesterday.

Field reports on the ground battle, about 85 miles northwest of Saigon, said South Vietnamese soldiers suffered one killed and 16 wounded while killing 30 North Vietnamese.

Ground fighting also flared along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams. In the biggest artillery action there in months North Vietnamese gunners slammed more than 200 rockets into both camps Alpha 2 and Alpha 3, at two government outposts guarding the DMZ.

Field reports said the South Vietnamese returned the fire with 105 and 155-mm. artillery and called in shellings from the guns of the U.S. 7th fleet in the Gulf of Tonkin.

The third major front was in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. Government airborne soldiers fought with a company of North Vietnamese troops five miles southeast of Fire Base 5 near the border. The South Vietnamese reported killing 28 of the enemy while suffering two wounded.

The B-52s also flew four missions in South Vietnam, all in the northernmost provinces of Quangtri, Thuathien and Quangnam. Each raid in-

cluded from one to three planes.

Vietcong terrorists set off an explosive device at a primary school for Vietnamese military dependents seven miles south of Danang. The blast killed seven children and wounded four others and a teacher, field reports said.

In Laos, informed sources reported that government forces regained control today of a strategically important ridge overlooking Long Cheng army base. Heavy North Vietnamese artillery fire drove the Laotians from a commanding position on the ridge yesterday.

HUGE SUPPLY HAUL
CLAIMED BY SAIGON

Caches Reported Seized in
Cambodia—U.S. Raids the
North 97th Time in '72

By The Associated Press

SAIGON, South Vietnam, March 18—South Vietnamese forces reported that they uncovered tons of enemy supplies in eastern Cambodia today, the ninth day of an operation there.

Also today, the United States command reported its 97th air attack this year on North Vietnam. The strike followed what the command called one of the most successful raids of the war last night on the Ho Chi Minh trail network in Laos.

Reports from Cambodia said the South Vietnamese had found two caches containing a total of 90 tons of rice, five tons of ammunition, including 122-mm. rockets, and 1,000 drums of fuel with more than 50,000 gallons of gasoline.

## Enemy Toll Put at 10 Dead

The operation involves 8,000 men in an area about 85 miles northwest of Saigon and 10 to 15 miles inside Cambodia. It is designed to halt or slow the flow of enemy troops and supplies into South Vietnam.

The Saigon command reported scattered fighting in the area, with 10 enemy soldiers killed in a clash 12 miles northwest of Kompong Trach, which is about 10 miles west of the border. The South Vietnamese also reported seizing one .50-caliber machine gun, 24 automatic rifles and six AK-47 assault rifles.

South Vietnamese losses were put at one killed and six

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HUGE SUPPLY HAUL
CLAIMED IN SAIGON

Continued From Page 1, Col. 5

wounded. In the raids on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, United States military sources reported that strikes by American fighter bombers and gunships had caused 800 secondary explosions and 600 fires with hits on ammunition and fuel depots.

They said the number of secondary explosions on any given night was usually 50 to 300 and the number of fires 10 to 150.

They said much of the damage was caused by the Seventh Air Force AO-130 gunship equipped with television cameras and infrared devices that can spot camouflaged installations in darkness and armed with rapid-firing 40-mm cannon to destroy them.

## Report Tanks Destroyed

The Seventh Air Force also said it had confirmed earlier reports that North Vietnamese tanks had been destroyed in Laos. Air Force sources said 15 tanks were destroyed and 14 others damaged between March 3 and March 8 in two areas of southern Laos near Tchepone and Chavane.

They said that two of the tanks destroyed were Russian-built T-54 or 55's, the largest

The New York Times/March 19, 1972

Enemy supply cache was found during drive in east Cambodia (cross).

and most powerful tanks in the

North Vietnamese Army. These are 40-ton tanks with speeds of up to 30 miles an hour and armed with one 100-mm. gun and two machine guns. The others destroyed were Russian-built T-34 medium tanks and the PT-76 light amphibious tanks, they said.

Sources here said earlier that the presence of large numbers of tanks indicated North Vietnam's apparent intent to increase the fighting.

"The feeling is that it's part of a build-up of firepower in conjunction with a build-up of troops, 130-mm artillery guns and 122-mm field guns," one source said.

## 'Protective Reaction' Strike

The United States command said the attack in North Vietnam was a "protective reaction strike." A communique said Air Force F-4 fighters had bombed and destroyed an anti-aircraft artillery battery about 15 miles north of the demilitarized zone.

The planes attacked the site, the command said, after it had fired on an unarmed United States reconnaissance plane. There was no damage to the United States planes, the command said.

On the ground, a South Vietnamese infantry battalion fought with enemy forces in the third major battle of the week in an area between the ancient imperial capital of Hue and the Ashau Valley.

The Government forces said they had killed 55 North Vietnamese troops with the support of bombers and artillery. South Vietnamese losses were reported as seven killed and five wounded.

Since Monday, reports from the field have said that 232 North Vietnamese soldiers have been killed in the 2,500-man South Vietnamese drive through an area on the eastern edge of the Ashau Valley, about 15 miles Southwest of Hue.

The drive has been supported by heavy United States B-52 strikes. Like the Cambodian operation, it is designed to check the movement of enemy supplies and troops.

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# CIA's Long Cheng Base Reels, Defenders Flee

By D. E. Ronk

Special to The Washington Post

VIENTIANE, Laos, March 20—North Vietnamese infantry and tanks launched a heavy attack on Long Cheng, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency base 80 miles north of here, and U.S. spokesmen said today base defenses were crumbling under the onslaught.

Enemy forces were said to have captured much of Long Cheng Valley defense lines and the situation was described by U.S. officials as "critical and rapidly deteriorating."

Laotian volunteers were

said to be fleeing in large numbers. Enemy artillery has completely closed the base's airstrip.

Between six to eight battalions of irregular Laotian troops, who were flown into the Long Cheng areas in January and February, have mutually against their commander and abandoned their positions.

Informed sources said about 1,000 Laotian irregulars

See INDOCHINA, A12, Col. 1

Communists hit Phnom Penh with rockets. A17.

# Saigon Sends 2,000 More Troops Into Cambodia to Hit Enemy Camps

SAIGON, March 22 (AP) — A new 2,000-man South Vietnamese force crossed into eastern Cambodia today, raising to 10,000 the number of government troops operating there in a drive to destroy enemy base camps.

South Vietnamese headquarters reported the first phase of a drive there by 8,000 troops, mounted March 10, had ended with 743 enemy soldiers killed, including 583 by artillery and air strikes. South Vietnamese casualties were given as killed, 65 wounded and 1 missing. These claims apparently fit the pattern of exaggerated enemy losses, minimized government casualties.

The new task force, led by 30 armored vehicles, was

headed toward the town of Krek, along Highway 7. The other 8,000 troops opened their second phase in the spoiling operation in an area roughly 85 miles northwest of Saigon and 10 to 15 miles inside Cambodia.

The thrust of the campaign has been against a Communist command supply complex in a general area 25 miles southwest of Krek. A communique said that in the first phase, tons of ammunition, 544 tons of rice, 1,109 rifles, 38 heavy weapons and four trucks were captured or destroyed.

Elsewhere in Cambodia, the district town of Prey Veng, 30 miles east of Phnom Penh, still was under attack by enemy forces. Government troops in the town were being resupplied by air drops.

A command spokesman described the situation as serious and said four Cambodian soldiers were killed and 15 wounded by enemy shelling.

Only scattered ground action was reported in South Vietnam. The U.S. Command said four soldiers were wounded in a clash with enemy forces 25 miles north-east of Saigon. One enemy soldier was reported killed.

Laotian forces abandoned two more positions to North Vietnamese attackers on Skyline Ridge overlooking the Long Cheng CIA base as heavy fighting continued there for the fifth day, former sources in Vientiane said. Government spokesmen acknowledged a high desertion rate among Defenses.

Soviet marshal in Hanoi
for defence talks

Hongkong, March 28.—A delegation of senior Soviet military officers has arrived in Hanoi for a visit which observers saw as aimed at strengthening North Vietnamese air defences against an increase in American bombings.

The delegation is led by Marshal Pavel Fedorovich Batitsky, Deputy Defence Minister and commander-in-chief of the Soviet air defence forces, the North Vietnamese news agency said. Other members are connected with the Soviet air and naval forces, artillery, and anti-aircraft missile and radar forces.

At a reception given by General Nguyen Giap, North Vietnamese Defence Minister, in Hanoi yesterday, Marshal Batitsky "sternly condemned the recent piratic bombings of North Vietnam" by American aircraft, the agency said.

He added: "The Vietnamese people's fight against United States aggression will win victory with support of the Soviet Union

and other socialist countries, and the United States aggressors will meet with ignominious defeat."

Saigon, March 28.—North Vietnamese gunners attacked three American helicopters trying to rescue the crew of a South Vietnamese helicopter, the United States Command said today. One pilot was killed and four other crew members were wounded.

Phnom Penh, March 28.—Cambodian aircraft continued today to pound suspected enemy concentrations amid reports of North Vietnamese troop movements around the capital.

"There are no large enemy units around Phnom Penh", said one high-ranking American. "There are some small sapper units and a few rocket crews, but they aren't in any position to take the city." He said there were a large number of "scare stories circulating in the capital", but a convoy of 20 boats had reached the city from South Vietnam.—Agence France Presse, Reuter, AP.

# U.S. Financed Thais To Bar Laos Defeat

By Laurence Stern

Washington Post Staff Writer

In order to prevent a military defeat in Laos, the United States undertook to finance and organize a 25-battalion expeditionary force of Thai "volunteers" at an estimated yearly cost of $100 million, according to a heavily censored Senate staff report released yesterday.

Although the presence of Thai units in Laos was officially acknowledge after press disclosures of their presence, their numbers and costs have been kept secret by U.S. officials in Washington and Vientiane—primarily because of Thai governmental sensitivities.

The Central Intelligence Agency, as well as the De-

fense and State Department, spent more than two months clearing the staff report which was prepared for the Symington subcommittee on security commitments abroad. The document was riddled with official deletions. It was prepared by Foreign Relations Committee staff members James G. Lowenstein and Richard M. Moose.

The purpose of the report was to give Congress a comprehensive picture of U.S. financed military activities in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

As described publicly for the first time in the staff report, the salaries of the Thai

See REPORT, A14, Col. 1

## Deletions Noted

"At the time of our visit, there were (deleted) Thai irregular infantry battalions in Laos and (deleted) on leave in Thailand. Of the (deleted) in Laos, (deleted) were in (deleted), (deleted) in the (deleted) and (deleted) at (deleted)."

The Thai units, introduced into Laos in 1970, were designated as "volunteers" after Congress adopted an amendment by Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) to prohibit U.S. funding of "third country forces" to support the Lao and Cambodian governments. Fulbright's purpose was to limit further American military and financial commitments in Indochina.

Despite the tight secrecy maintained on all details of the irregular operations, the report cited a previously-unnoticed Voice of America interview with Laotian Premier Souvanna Phoum. It provided the first and only official statement on the size of the force.

In the January 14 broadcast Souvanna confirmed that American and Lao officials had agreed on a "volunteer" force of 25 to 26 battalions to fight in Laos but had been able to raise about 13. (Thee are about 400 men in a Thai irregular battalion.)

Souvanna told the VOA interviewer that he hoped to have five or six more battalions recruited for duty by this month. "They can't be called Thai battalions," Souvanna emphasized in the in-

## REPORT, From A1

irregulars are paid by CIA officials to Thai officers at Udorn Air Base near the Lao border in northeast, Thailand. The method of payment, by U.S. government officials to regular Thai officers, has been previously classified.

In earlier statements administration spokesmen have said that the Thai units were primarily ethnic Lao who had volunteered as local forces to fight the Communists in their ancestral homeland. The staff report said, however, that the irregulars were recruited from all over Thailand. An irregular private, according to the report, is paid $76 a month—three times the salary of a regular Thai private.

Portions of the report that apparently tended to question the voluntary nature of the program were deleted from the sanitized version made public.

An example of the intense censorship applied to the staff document was the following paragraph on the Thai presence in Laos:

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Rail Link
To China
Is Severed

By Thomas W. Lippman

Washington Post Foreign Service

SAIGON, May 13 (Saturday)—The battle for Anloc intensified sharply Friday as fighting flared in the streets of the ruined provincial capital under the heaviest U.S. B-52 bombardment of the war and artillery barrages from North Vietnamese attackers.

[U.S. bombers knocked out a key railroad bridge cutting Hanoi's northeast rail link with China, according to American pilots, the Associated Press reported. North Vietnam's entire rail system is said to have been heavily bombed.]

In the Central Highlands, U.S. military sources said an unspecified number of American military personnel are being evacuated from Pleiku in anticipation of further fighting.

South Vietnamese troops controlled most of Anloc except for a small salient occupied by about 70 enemy troops, military sources said. But government forces were kept from clearing the town by heavy enemy shelling.

An estimated 1,700 rounds of enemy artillery were dropped into Anloc Friday, far below the 7,000 rounds reported Thursday, and a U.S. spokesman described the situation facing the defenders as "less serious" than previously.

Anloc, 60 miles north of Saigon, has been under siege for five weeks by North Vietnamese forces which drove down Highway 13 from the Cambodian border shortly after the current offensive began. There have been reports of thousands of casualties on both sides as the battle ebbed and flowed.

The town is reported to be largely destroyed. Its defenders, an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 men, are virtually surrounded by enemy troops which also hold a stretch of Highway 13 south of Anloc.

Before the offensive, Anloc had a population of 40,000 President Nguyen Van Thieu has ordered it held at all costs.

Besides the B-52s, which are operated mostly from bases in Thailand, planes from six squadrons of Navy jets based on carriers in the South China Sea also attacked enemy positions.

See INDOCHINA, A16, Col. 3

MAY 13 1972

W.P.

The Washington Post

Heaviest fighting yesterday was at Anloc, with Communists pushing into town; U.S. pilots reported destroying key railroad bridge and cutting Hanoi's northeast rail link with China; U.S. personnel are being evacuated from Pleiku, in Central Highlands.

# North Viets expand in Cambodia

‘You won’t believe it . . . but, sir, the enemy is attacking — on motorbikes’

By Daniel Southerland
Staff correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor

Saigon

Never great admirers of their Cambodian counterparts, South Vietnamese military men now say that their Cambodian neighbors are doing less than ever to help contain the Communists.

One South Vietnamese officer recently reported to President Thieu that elements of a Communist division were roaring across the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia — in broad daylight — on Honda motorbikes!

Col. Hoang Duc Ninh, commander of the 44th Special Tactical Zone, told Mr. Thieu of the motorbikes during Mr. Thieu's recent trip to border provinces.

"You won't believe it," the colonel said, according to government sources. "It's a new war. . . . The Communists are attacking us on Hondas!"

Thanks to Cambodian Army setbacks and the pullout of many South Vietnamese units for action in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese now are using Cambodia more extensively than ever before.

## Route 1 defeats

Cambodian losses have been largely overlooked lately because of the more heavily publicized actions in Vietnam. But it now has become clear that the Cambodians have given up more territory this year than at any time since the fighting started in Cambodia two years ago.

In April, after the start of their offensive in South Vietnam, the Communists launched attacks aimed at giving them unimpeded access to South Vietnam's Military Region III, which is the region surrounding Saigon, and Military Region IV, which encompasses the Mekong Delta.

They pushed the Cambodians out of a string of positions along Route 1, took control of most of Route 1 between the Mekong River and the South Vietnamese border, and pinned down a sizable Cambodian force at

the town of Svay Rieng in the Parrot's Beak.

In southernmost Cambodia bordering on the Mekong Delta, the Communists pushed the Cambodians out of all but a few positions. In effect, they clipped off the southern extremities of the Cambodian provinces of Kampot, Takeo, Kandal, Prey Veng, and Svay Rieng.

The Communists now command a great swath of Cambodian territory extending the full length of the Vietnam border from the Gulf of Siam in the south to a point opposite Kontum Province in the northeast.

The Communists have put just enough

pressure on the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh to force the Cambodians to keep the bulk of their Army in and around their capital.

It's doubtful that the Communists would want to launch a major attack on the city, particularly now that the rains have begun. But they can be expected to continue to lob rockets in Phnom Penh and to make further command raids on the fringes of the city—just to let the Cambodians know there's still a threat.

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U.S. Downs 3 Migs
In Raid Near Hanoi

SAIGON, July 9 (AP)—U.S.
Air Force jets destroyed one
of North Vietnam's biggest
military vehicle repair depots
on the edge of Hanoi and shot
down three Mig-21s trying to
intercept them, the U.S. Com-
mand announced Sunday. It
also reported one American
plane lost.

In ground warfare, South
Vietnamese forces remained
at a standstill in their drive to
retake the city of Quangtri in
South Vietnam's northernmost
sector. Paratroopers have met
such tough North Vietnamese
resistance that they are rely-
ing on U.S. air planes to clear
their path with bombs.

One of eight Air Force F-4
Phantom fighters that en-
gaged four Migs over North
Vietnam was downed but the
two crewmen were rescued,
the U.S. Command said.

In the past two weeks, Mig
interceptors have downed a
half dozen F-4 fighters. In all,
14 American planes have been
reported lost to Migs since the
resumption of full-scale bomb-
ing of North Vietnam a little
more than three months ago.

The latest U.S. loss raised to
59 the number of American
planes lost to all causes over

North Vietnam since the re-
newal of bombing April 6, the
U.S. command said. A total of
67 U.S. airmen are listed as
missing.

North Vietnam claimed four
Phantoms were shot down in
the action Saturday. Hanoi
also charged that U.S. jets
bombed homes and industrial
installations inside Hanoi, de-
stroying 183 houses and killing
"a score of people."

Four F-4 Phantoms carried
out the bombing of the mili-
tary depots. Pilots reported
they beamed laser-guided
bombs onto the repair build-
ing. Other F4 Phantoms es-
corted the attack planes.

The U.S. Command reported
that Air Force, Navy and Ma-
rine fighter-bombers carried
out 280 strikes inside North
Vietnam on Saturday.

The raids included an attack
by Navy pilots against the
Hongai port facility, 23 miles
northeast of Haiphong. Pilots
said they destroyed two piers,
a crane and a building. An-
other strike near the port fa-
cility destroyed two buildings
and caused a large secondary

See INDOCHINA, A18, Col. 1

INDOCHINA, From A1

explosion at an ammunition
storage area, the Navy said.

In ground fighting, South
Vietnamese marines clashed
with North Vietnamese forces
four miles northeast of Quang-
tri.

The extent of Communist
resistance in the city itself
puzzled allied commanders. It
was too strong for a rear-
guard delaying action, yet not
strong enough to shake the
governments confidence that
it will retake the city.

Although none of the eight-
jet B-52 Stratofortresses has
bombed the provincial capital,
two days of continuous bomb-
ing by smaller American jets
have already caused wide-
spread destruction, in and
around Quangtri.

South Vietnamese para-
troopers now face the city on
the south and -east. Marines
are reportedly advancing on
the northeast side. But allied
commanders have left the
Communist-led forces a north-
west escape route across the
Tachhan River.

Reports from the northern
front said that airborne divi-
sion officers had bared news-
men fon traveling to the
front, posting military police
to stop all civilian reporters at
a bridge at Hailang, six miles
southeast of Quangtri.

In Cambodia, government
troops who got to within 200
yards of the beleaguered town
of Angtassem, 40 miles south
of Phnom Penh, have been
forced to retreat by the fury
of Communist attacks, the
Cambodian high command re-
ported.

Cambodia
allied
ml Op

JUL 10 1972

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