CLASH IN CAMBODIA
REPORTED BY SAIGON

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Friday, Oct. 8 (AP)—The South Vietnamese command reported today a new flareup of fighting across the Cambodian border and said allied ground and air forces had killed 50 North Vietnamese soldiers without suffering any losses.

The command said that South Vietnamese units battled a North Vietnamese force of undetermined size yesterday two miles east of the town of Krek, seven miles inside Cambodia.

"Fifty enemy were killed in the engagement," a South Vietnamese statement said. "Most of the enemy casualties were inflicted by air strikes. Eight enemy antiaircraft gun sites and three antitank mines were destroyed. There were no friendly casualties."

The scene of the action, about halfway between Krek and Fire Base Alpha, was the site of the heaviest fighting of the 10-day North Vietnamese border offensive, that ended last Tuesday when the main enemy force withdrew.

The command also reported a small ground clash on the Vietnamese side of the border three miles north of the town of Thienngon in Tayninh Province. It said four North Vietnamese had been killed and six Government soldiers wounded.

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economic counselor at the United States Embassy, who has been working with M. Ngoc on the new economic package.

The attack on South Vietnam's economic problems reflects the Saigon Government's concern over the United States diminishing role in South Vietnam. The withdrawal of American troops, with the loss of the protection they gave, has reduced the money they spent, and the jobs they provided has had a negative effect on several aspects of the South Vietnamese economy.

The economic problems translate themselves into political issues that President Nguyen Van Thieu is reporting to the American bases. There are thousands of South Vietnamese out of work and ruined businesses that catered to the troops, such as bars, laundries, specialty shops and restaurants.

South Vietnamese businessmen, meanwhile, express fear that the South Vietnamese Army is not going to be able to hold off the Communists without American ground troops to help it. Instead, making long-term investments in the South Vietnamese economy, many businessmen are reportedly either putting the money into short-term ventures.

# Saigon Infantrymen Clash With N. Viets In Border Region

Reuter

SAIGON, Oct. 8 (AP) — Fighting broke out again today along the Cambodian-South Vietnamese border and units of a third North Vietnamese regiment were reported in action for the first time.

South Vietnamese infantrymen clashed late in the afternoon with North Vietnamese regulars near Highway 22 just south of U.S. Firebase Pace, the same area where the Saigon troops made contact yesterday.

By nightfall, there were no reports of the outcome of the latest engagement.

South Vietnamese commanders identified the opposing troops as elements of the 209th Regiment of the North Vietnamese 7th Division, a regiment known to be in the area but heretofore not committed to the enemy's border campaign.

The fresh enemy troops were believed by allied officers to be a rear guard covering the withdrawal of the main body of North Vietnamese troops.

Previously, the North Vietnamese had committed units of two regiments to the drive they launched on both sides of the border Sept. 26 — the 7th Division's 141st Regiment and the 5th Division's 174th Regiment.

Main elements of both these regiments were reported last Tuesday to have withdrawn to the east and north of Krek, seven miles inside Cambodia, after 10 days of fighting.

The South Vietnamese commander of the border fighting, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh, said his troops would pursue the enemy and indicated that new operations were planned.

He said at his headquarters in Taynihn that he had sent

out long-range patrols to try to get a fix on the latest positions of the North Vietnamese in order to bring U.S. and South Vietnamese air strikes on them.

## CIA Guerrilla School Closed in Laos

PHNOM PENH, Oct. 8 (UPI)—The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency closed a secret school for training Cambodian army guerrillas in Laos when police arrested a high-ranking Cambodian officer at the school on herion smuggling charges, military sources said.

The officer was a top aide of Lt. Col. Lon Non, brother of Prime Minister Lon Non, the sources said.

Since his arrest in June, the aide has been released and, dressed in civilian clothes, has resumed duties in Phnom Penh at at Lon Non's super secret special coordination committee.

The Cambodian army, in the meantime, has established a new guerrilla training center in southern Laos, and the CIA is once again considering providing American instructors and equipment, the officers said.

## British Find Oil In North Sea

LONDON, Oct. 8 (AP)—Oil experts say British Petroleum has tapped an oil field in the North Sea that could eventually produce 400,000 barrels a day, a fifth of Britain's current daily consumption.

BP announced yesterday that two out of three wells drilled in the company's new field, 100 miles northeast of Scotland, have a potential of at least 10,000 barrels a day.

Saigon Reports a Breakthrough
To Battered Base in Cambodia

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Oct
9 (AP)—A column of 1,200
South Vietnamese rangers, led
by tanks, was reported to have
fought through North Viet-
namese lines today and reached
a battered artillery base in
eastern Cambodia.

The rangers and armored
cavalry, taking the offensive in
the resurgent fighting along the
Cambodian-South Vietnamese
frontier, reportedly thrust over
Route 7 from the town of Krek
in Cambodia to a fire base,
Alpha, 90 miles north of Saigon.

The armored column was said
to have been followed by a
supply column, the first to
reach the base by road in 14
days of border fighting, much
of it in the three and a half
miles that separates Krek and
the base. The base had been
supplied by air.

The rangers said that 97
North Vietnamese had been
killed. South Vietnamese losses
were put at one dead and eight
wounded.

Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh,
commander of all forces in the
border campaign, said: "We re-
supplied the base by road with
food and ammunition. Alpha is
now very strong."

Last week, a South Viet-

namese task force had fought
through North Vietnamese lines
to reach the base and relieve
some of its garrison, which is
made up of South Vietnamese
and Cambodians.

The report said that the
North Vietnamese had with-
drawn at first, then returned
to besiege the base and men-
ace Krek where the South
Vietnamese operate a forward
command post.

The reported thrust was
preceded by saturation bomb-
ing raids on both sides of
Route 7 by B-52s and fighter-
bombers of the American and
South Vietnamese air forces.

B-52s Busy Elsewhere

Other B-52s reportedly flew
nine missions against sus-
pected North Vietnamese con-
centrations, bunkers and anti-
aircraft gun sites on the South
Vietnamese side of the border,
7 to 10 miles south of Krek.

A United States military
spokesman said the strikes
were intended to ease pressure
around an artillery post, Pace,
that is almost directly on the
border and is manned by
American artillery units and
South Vietnamese soldiers.

FIGHTING REPORTED
HEAVY IN CAMBODIA

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Oct. 10 (AP)—Heavy fighting broke out today near the Pnompenh-to-Saigon highway in eastern Cambodia, the South Vietnamese command reported. South Vietnamese forces said that 46 North Vietnamese soldiers had been killed. Seven South Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed and 15 were wounded.

It was the first fighting in
several weeks along Route 1
between the two capitals.

For the last two weeks, the
North Vietnamese have been
conducting an offensive 30 to
50 miles north of Route 1, along
two other key highways—Route
22 in South Vietnam and Route
7 in Cambodia. All three are
key overland supply routes for
the South Vietnamese.

The latest action was said to
have centered 7 miles north-
east of the Cambodian town of
Kompong Trabek, on Route 1
about 80 miles northwest of
Saigon and 50 miles southeast
of Pnompenh. The reported
fighting took place 20 miles
from South Vietnam's border.

Thirty-five miles farther
nort along Route 22 on the
South Vietnamese side of the
border, North Vietnamese
troops reportedly ambushed a
supply convoy and battled Sai-
gon forces on both sides of the
highway.

U.S. War Dead at 8 in Week, Fewest Since '65

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Oct. 14 (UPI) — The United States command announced today that eight Americans were killed in action in Indochina last week, the fewest for a week in more than six years.

This figure, for the week ended Saturday, compared with 21 the week before and underlined the diminishing role of American forces in the war. It was the lowest toll since six Americans were killed in the week ended Aug. 28, 1965, at about the time of the start of the United States build-up in Vietnam.

The command also reported a sharp drop in the number of wounded last week, listing 72 against 117 the week before.

South Vietnamese casualties, however, increased. The Saigon command reported that 333 Government soldiers were killed last week, a rise of 28, and 877 wounded, an increase of 8.

The two commands put the enemy death toll last week at

1,423, a decrease of 417.

The latest figures raised the reported totals for the war since the beginning of the nineteen-sixties to 45,572 Americans killed and 301,936 wounded; 134,225 South Vietnamese killed and 290,996 wounded, and 777,033 North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops killed.

## Sharp Battle Near Krek

SAIGON, Friday, Oct. 15 (AP) —A South Vietnamese armored task force reportedly clashed with North Vietnamese troops yesterday in a brief but savage battle northwest of here just inside Cambodia.

South Vietnamese officers reported that the fighting, near Krek, a rubber plantation town seven miles from the border, lasted half an hour. The North Vietnamese then withdrew, it was reported, under heavy United States and South Vietnamese air strikes and artillery bombardments.

The South Vietnamese said 52 North Vietnamese had been

killed in the action, and reports from the field put Government casualties at 5 killed and 20 wounded.

The South Vietnamese task force was made up of a 400-man ranger battalion and an armored force of 20 tanks and personnel carriers.

It reportedly pushed out from Krek to pursue North Vietnamese main force troops withdrawing northward in eastern Cambodia from the border drive they opened Sept. 26.

Allied bases on both sides of the frontier once again came under North Vietnamese shell-ing. All the shellings were light, probably intended as harassment, officers reported.

Among outposts hit was a United States fire base called Pace, just inside the South Vietnamese border 75 miles northwest of Saigon. It was struck by half a dozen shells yesterday, the 19th consecutive day it has been under fire. In the latest shell-ing, two Americans were wounded, the United States command reported.

Associated Press

Border of Northern Ireland.
by roads that cross border.

Ulster Border

ern Ireland is in the United
Kingdom our army will do its
duty there in the defense of
law, order and justice."

Mr. Maudling said there must
be no "doubt or hesitation" be-
cause these would play into the
hands of the I.R.A. His strong
words unquestionably fit the
mood of the delegates, who
voted their backing for the cam-
paign.

Government Authority Sapped

But, privately, members of
the Conservative Government
do not conceal their deep con-
cern about the trend of events
in Northern Ireland. They fear
that the authority of the Ulster
provincial government has been
snapped almost to the vanish-
ing point.

The Catholic minority in Ul-
ster has long been alienated

Pakistani Governments.

But Robert J. McCloskey, the
State Department spokesman,
denied reports from Pakistan
that the United States had of-
fered to mediate in the civil
war between West and East
Pakistan. He said that the Unit-
ed States had urged the Paki-
stani Government to seek po-
litical reconciliation.

On March 25, the Pakistani
army moved to quell a move-
ment for political autonomy in
East Pakistan, separated from
the west by 1,000 miles of In-

officially described.

dian territory. East Pakistan has
since been torn by civil war
and millions of refugees have
crossed into India, causing seri-
ous tension between the two
Governments.

The reported arms delivery
to Pakistan was the first from
North Korea that officials here
could recall. They said it was
unclear whether the shipment
was the result of a commercial
sale or a governmental transac-

Vatican Synod Shifts Discussion
To Promotion of World Justice

By EDWARD B. FISKE

Special to The New York Times

ROME, Oct. 14—Delegates to
the International Synod of Ro-
man Catholic bishops began to-
day to shift the focus of their
deliberations from the crisis in
the priesthood to what they
could do to promote world
justice.

Archbishop Teopisto Alberto
y Valderrama, president of the
Philippines Bishops Conference

must be "world trade in unreg-
ulated free markets that gen-
erally favor the strong over
the weak."

The Archbishop said that the
church itself had indulged in
"an accumulation of wealth
that causes identification of the
church with the rich and pow-
erful while reducing her cred-
ibility when she does seek to

NEW SAIGON DRIVE
IS ON IN CAMBODIA

2,500-Man Force Reports
No Contact With Enemy

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Thursday, Oct. 21 (AP)—The South Vietnamese command reportedly sent a 2,500-man force yesterday into an operation in eastern Cambodia where North Vietnamese troops were said to have been in retreat after a four-week drive.

Reports from the field said that four Government ranger battalions and an armored cavalry battalion found only four large empty bunkers as they moved through an area north of the road from the rubber plantation town of Krek to the battered outpost known as Fire Base Alpha, three and a half miles from the town.

South Vietnamese officers said that the operation would continue a day or two more, depending on whether contact

The New York Times/Oct. 21, 1971

Area of the drive (cross)

with the enemy developed. Estimates earlier this week had put enemy strength around Krek at 1,600 to 2,000 men.

Ground fighting in the border region 60 to 90 miles northwest of Saigon is said to have subsided in the last week, especially on the Cambodian side of the frontier. Enemy rocket and mortar attacks, however, are said to have continued.

## U.S. Outpost Shelled

Fire Base Pace, an American-manned outpost just south of the border, was shelled yesterday for the 26th consecutive day. The entrenched United States infantrymen and artillerymen reportedly suffered no casualties.

A skirmish six miles west of Pace, in which South Vietnamese paratroopers were said to have killed two enemy soldiers, was the only ground action in the area reported yesterday.

Far to the north, two United States Air Force F-105 fighter-bombers supporting B-52 raids over Laos reportedly flew into North Vietnamese airspace late Tuesday and fired missiles at a radar site 41 miles north of the demilitarized zone. It was the 69th reported "protective reaction" strike into North Vietnam this year.

The Thunderchief jets attacked after sensing radar "lock-on," usually a preliminary to antiaircraft fire, the United States command reported.

# Saigon Force Chases N. Viets in Cambodia

SAIGON, Oct. 20 (UPI)—A force of 2,500 South Vietnamese troops, backed by U. S. artillery and air strikes, struck into the Krek rubber plantation area of eastern Cambodia today in pursuit of an elusive North Vietnamese regiment.

The government units, rangers and armored cavalry, pushed into the area from the north and south, behind a wave of air strikes by U.S. B-

52 bombers and F-4 Phantoms, and 40 raids by Vietnamese jets and Skyraiders.

American artillery at Firebase Pace, 400 yards inside South Vietnam, fired across the border to help soften resistance. But military spokesman said there was no resistance to the drive and by late afternoon the total accomplishment was the destruction of four enemy bunkers.

In Saigon, student demon-

strators burned two American vehicles, including an Army bus, clashed briefly with police, and scheduled more vio-

lence for Thursday, the fourth day of a campaign against President Nguyen Van Thieu's approaching inauguration.

## Mammoth Skelton Found in Siberia

Reuter

MOSCOW, Oct. 20 — The skeleton of a huge mammoth, which had been buried for about 80,000 years, has been

dug up by Soviet scientists in the lower reaches of the River Indigirka in Siberia.

The skeleton will go in the Yakutsk Museum.

# SWEEP IN CAMBODIA FAILS TO FIND ENEMY

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Thursday, Oct. 28 (AP)—South Vietnamese rangers and armored units sought unsuccessfully yesterday to catch up with withdrawing enemy troops in the Cambodian border region northwest of here, the South Vietnamese command reported.

The South Vietnamese, who were conducting a sweep in the area of the eastern Cambodian rubber town of Krek, reported that they had found the bodies of 20 enemy soldiers, who apparently had been killed by air strikes.

Twenty-five miles west of Saigon, meanwhile, other South Vietnamese troops reportedly engaged enemy forces in two brief battles. They said they had killed nine enemy soldiers and captured one.

Elsewhere in South Vietnam, battlefield action remained light but United States B-52's continued their raids against North Vietnamese supply lines in Laos and Cambodia. The United States command reported that an Army light observation plane was shot down in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam near the border with Laos, injuring two American crewmen.

300 Cambodians Reported Slain
In Attacks on Relief Task Force

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Oct. 29 (Reuters)—More than 300 Cambodian soldiers were reported killed or wounded as enemy forces mounted renewed attacks today against a Government task force trying to relieve the provincial capital of Kompong Thom, in northeastern Cambodia.

The high command said tonight that the Government had suffered the casualties following a series of clashes this week at various points along the 25-mile route 6.

Wounded Cambodian soldiers arriving today in Pnompenh said the worst fighting had been at Romluong, about 50 miles north of Pnompenh. They said that at least 100 government troops had been killed or wounded.

They told reporters that the township of Romluong was isolated and that even helicopters could not land there because of heavy rocket and mortar fire.

The command said that enemy troops were reported to have mounted renewed attacks

along most of the entire front covered by a 20,000-strong Cambodian task force.

The command said that a major part of the task force had been cut off by road from supplies and reinforcements, but declined to say whether the government was able to relieve Romluong and other threatened areas by air.

The New York Times/Oct. 30, 1971

Fighting was reported in
area of Kompong Thom.

Cambodia Bearing Up Well

Nation Seems Unchanged Despite Rule by Decree

By Peter A. Jay

Washington Post Foreign Service

PHNOM PENH—Eighteen months after somebody else's war spread into their quiet little country like a windblown grass fire, most Cambodians are bearing up very well, according to observers here.

Though it has been unable to win back the thinly populated northern and north-eastern areas—nearly half the country—that were occupied by the North Vietnamese in the early days of the war, the ragtag but enthusiastic Cambodian army has made a better showing than almost anyone here dared hope.

The most important roads are open, especially Phnom Penh's links to the rice growing area around Battambang in the west and to Saigon to the east. Using a system of well-defended convoys, supply ships have been able to sail regularly up the Mekong River to the capital.

At the U.S. mission here, however, pleasure in the generally satisfactory military situation has been muted recently by political developments that set off dis-

tinctly bad vibrations in Washington — just at the time Cambodia's foreign aid appropriation was being considered.

The worst of these by far was the radio announcement by Premier Lon Nol that the sometimes obstreperous National Assembly—whose constitutional mandate had expired—would no longer function as a legislative body, and that the government would rule instead by decree.

According to the French version of the Khmer-language broadcast, Lon Nol declared he had no more patience with "this sterile game of liberal democracy."

At least from a distance, the Lon Nol speech appeared to indicate that the Cambodian republic, declared only a year ago (six months after the ousting of Prince Norodom Sihanouk), was headed down the road to military dictatorship. According to some translations of the radio speech, Lon Nol himself said as much.

See CAMBODIA, A4, Col. 1

based program of nationali-
tion, starting with the big
epsons companies, but drew
ant visible support.

Flatly rejected was any no-
ion of building a new struc-
ture of regulatory agencies
such as those created by the
New Deal. And Miller, of
George Washington Universi-
s National Law Center, cau-
ned against looking to the
urts to impose substantial
straints on corporations, es-
pecially because of their abil-
ty to get what they want from
Congress or elsewhere in gov-
ment.

There is a sampling of ideas
from comments that did
herge:

public directors" to represent
those interests, earn divi-
dends for the public purse,
and improve efficiency, said
Shepherd.

* Robert Townsend, author of "up the organization," also urged public-interest directors on corporate boards, but said they should be given funds and staff ample to serve that interest—along with limited tenure to prevent them from being co-opted.

* Willard F. Mueller of the University of Wisconsin, former chief economist of the Federal Trade Commission, decrying the secrecy which prevents assessment of the "social legitimacy of the corporation" and even now denies vital data for price controls to

sider nominating a giant
firm's employes "as the consti-
tuency with sufficient cohe-
sion yet sufficient independ-
ence to serve as a meaningful
check and balance upon corpo-
rate management."

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his voice — “we are afraid there may be royalists in the cabinet.”

If anything goes wrong in Cambodia, the monk said, it will be the fault of “royalists”—not Lon Nol.

"You know," an American source said, "the trouble with the Cambodians is that they really don't know what to do about legitimate opposition. The National Assembly was no threat—it was noisy, but it would have passed whatever the government asked for."

Two of the most prominent opponents of the government are Duc Rasy and In Tam.

## Sardonic Lawyer

Duc Rasy is a very bright and rather sardonic lawyer who is an oppositionist by nature. As a member of the National Assembly under Sihanouk, he opposed Sihanouk. Under Lon Nol, he opposes Lon Nol, whom he calls "half a man," referring to the premier's stroke last spring.

"It isn't the same republic it started out to be," he said morosely, sitting in his comfortable suburban villa while his wife — a wealthy pharmacist, — brought drinks. "The republic of di-

verse opinions is dead. Now we have a republic of small Caesars, more brutal than prestigious."

His visitor said that was very eloquent.

"Do you like it?" he asked, brightening up. "I'm putting it in my book."

In Tam, who was president of the National Assembly and then deputy prime minister until Lon Nol fired him (apparently because he seemed too ambitious), is a different sort of man. Unlike Duc Rasy, he would rather be inside the government than outside snipping at it.

## New Constitution

He was chagrined about the National Assembly, and remarked sadly that "some people in the government won't play by the rules." But he said he is ready to pitch in an help draft the new constitution — a job he said should take four or five months.

(One problem with the old constitution, drafted under Sihanouk, is that it is filled with references to "the king"—although the monarchy was formally abolished a year ago.)

In Tam, Duc Rasy and two or three others disenchanted

with the government have formed a group — clearly named by Duc Rasy — with the grandiose title of the Association for the Defense of the Rights of Man. About all the group has done, to date is to have lunch with U.S. Ambassador Emory C. Swank.

Swank, in the opinion of Cambodians in the government and veteran diplomats here, has done a superlative job in providing inconspicuous support for the new government.

## Swank Trusted

"Swank is trusted," said a high-ranking official at the embassy of a neutral nation. "He realized the National Assembly was composed of buffons, and perhaps he let his awareness slip a little too much. But he has kept your mission very unobtrusive, no matter what the press says, and that's a feat."

American officials here concede there was a policy squabble within the embassy about four months ago over the size of the mission.

Officials say the mission is not likely to grow much more, and will certainly not approach the size—over 700 Americans—it reached here in 1963, before Sihanouk broke relations with the United States.

The American military aid to the Cambodian army remains very simple. Much of it is munitions—for rifles and for the small 105-mm. howitzers, the biggest weapons the army has.

The Cambodians have one squadron of 25 armored personnel carriers, and may get one more. They have six helicopters — the South Vietnamese have 500—and may get 10 more. But there is little support for the contention that the aid pattern is following that of South Vietnam.

## Holding Action

"Look," one U.S. official said recently. "What this is a holding action. The United States is desengaging from Southeast Asia. We hope the whole Indochina issue can eventually be settled by negotiations—though I'm personally not optimistic—but in the meantime we're doing what we can for the Cambodians. They're certainly

doing plenty in their own behalf."

Meanwhile, life in Phnom Penh goes on imperturbably. Next month, delegates from several countries will arrive here for an Asian Parliamentary Union conference.

Yem Sambaur, the president of the National Assembly at the time it came to an end, will greet the delegates, a prospect to which he is looking forward with undiluted eagerness.

He was asked if it would be embarrassing to receive foreign parliamentarians with his own parliament temporarily out of order. He thought a moment, and sighed.

"Oh yes," he said. "It will be a little embarrassing. But of couse, we'll go ahead with the conference anyway."

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ing court in Queens. He was
charges of possessing drugs.

Ecology Awards

United Press International

President Nixon announced a new award program yesterday to stimulate high school students to undertake programs designed to protect the environment.

"I have been impressed by the thousand of letters I have received from young people who want to join our national effort to reclaim, protect and preserve our national inheritance," Mr. Nixon said. "Environmental programs sponsored by high school students can play an important part in this vital effort."

William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wrote to each of the nation's 38,000 public and private high school principals urging them to participate in the program.

Ruckelshaus said each high school would be permitted to administer the awards program in its own way, awarding as many or as few of the certificates as it considers proper for environmental projects.

Awards would be made for educational programs, community service projects and public affairs programs.

The awards would consist of either a certificate of merit or an award of excellence, both with the presidential seal. There would be no cash prizes.

Theme of the program is "Life—Pass It On."

Ruckelshaus said the program was conceived to "stimulate as much as possible activity on the part of high-school students to preserve the environment in their own community."

He said one objective was to create projects that would provide an answer to an oft-asked question about the environment—"What can I do?"

## Segregation Bill

### of Public Is Opposed
ing; 18 Pct. in Favor

1,506 adults, 18 and older, in approximately 300 scientifically selected localities

### The Gallup Poll

across the nation. Interviewing for the latest survey was conducted Oct. 8-11.

All persons who said they had heard or read about the issue were asked this question:

In general, do you favor or oppose the busing of Negro and white school children from one school district to another?

As the following table shows, overwhelming opposition to busing is found in all four major regions of the nation, particularly the South.

Whites, both in the South and outside the South, oppose busing, while a fairly

close division of opinion is found among Negroes.

The national results and results by key groups.

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Favor</th><th>Oppose</th><th>No Opin.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>NATIONAL</td><td>18%</td><td>76%</td><td>6%</td></tr><tr><td>Whites</td><td>15</td><td>79</td><td>6</td></tr><tr><td>Negroes</td><td>45</td><td>47</td><td>8</td></tr><tr><td>East</td><td>22</td><td>71</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>Midwest</td><td>16</td><td>77</td><td>7</td></tr><tr><td>South</td><td>14</td><td>82</td><td>4</td></tr><tr><td>Far West</td><td>21</td><td>72</td><td>7</td></tr></tbody></table>

In a test election in which President Nixon is pitted against Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine and Gov. George Wallace of Alabama, supporter of all three express overwhelming opposition to busing, as seen in the following table:

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>Favor</th><th>Oppose</th><th>No Opin.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Wallace supporters</td><td>8%</td><td>89%</td><td>3%</td></tr><tr><td>Nixon supporters</td><td>10</td><td>85</td><td>5</td></tr><tr><td>Muskie supporters</td><td>25</td><td>65</td><td>8</td></tr></tbody></table>

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# U.S. Navy Jet Reported to Strike Missile Site in North Vietnam

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Wednesday, Nov 3 (AP)—An American Navy jet that was bombing the enemy's supply trail in Laos was reported to have darted over neighboring North Vietnam yesterday to attack an antiaircraft battery that had fired two missiles at it.

The United States command reported that the American plane had not been hit in the missile attack and that the results of its strike at the North Vietnamese site, 105 miles north of the demilitarized zone along the line between the two Vietnams, were not immediately known.

It was the 70th so-called "protective reaction" strike by United States planes inside North Vietnam this year, the command said.

The command also announced that enemy gunners had shot down two American helicopters in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. In the downing of one—an observation helicopter 17 miles west of Pleiku—an American crewman was reported wounded. There were no casualties in the other, that of a transport helicopter shot down 34 miles northwest of Kontum.

In other action, American helicopter gunships reportedly killed 24 North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers in the Mekong delta, 140 miles southwest of Saigon, but a battlefield lull was reported to continue elsewhere in South Vietnam.

## Cambodian Siege Broken

PRAKHAM, Cambodia, Nov. 2 (Reuters)—A Cambodian armed column today broke through to this town 56 miles north of Pnompenh, lifting a weeklong siege by eight North Vietnamese and Vietcong battalions.

Officers said that the enemy troops, which encircled the town a week ago, pulled back this morning when the column advanced through their positions, already pounded by artillery and mortar fire for more than 24 hours.

The New York Times/Nov. 3, 1971

Area of attack (1) was 105 miles north of the buffer zone. Two U.S. copters were downed in Central Highlands (2). A Cambodian relief unit pushed into Prakham (3).

The relief of Prakham was the first Government success in breaking up big enemy concentrations since a recent operation that cleared Route 6 up to Kompong Thom.

## 291 Reported Killed

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Nov. 2 (AP)—The Government today reported 291 North Vietnamese and Vietcong killed in the campaign at Prakham.

Prakham is one of the rear strong points for the 20,000 Cambodian soldiers who have been battling an enemy counteroffensive.

"We lived like mice—underground," Maj. Thach Xoai said. "One reason for the low casualties were that we had plenty of deep bunkers."