CLASH IS REPORTED
IN CAMBODIA SWEEP

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 2 (AP)—New fighting was reported today in eastern Cambodia, where 3,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen launched a sweep operation six days ago.

Reports from the battle scene said that 21 North Vietnamese soldiers had been killed and that eight South Vietnamese had been wounded.

The North Vietnamese force was estimated at company size, or about 100 men.

Allied fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships supported the infantrymen in the day-long fighting south of Route 1, the

major road connecting Saigon and Pnompenh, Cambodia's capital. The area is about 85 miles northwest of Saigon.

The engagement was only the second reported in the South Vietnamese sweep of the Route 1 sector since it began Wednesday.

In the first clash, on Thursday, the South Vietnamese troops said that they killed 72 North Vietnamese.

The sweep operation is the fifth in eastern Cambodia since early July. It is aimed at pushing North Vietnamese forces back from the border, preventing them from infiltrating the southern half of South Vietnam and safeguarding national elections late this month and early in October.

# S. Viets, Enemy Clash in Cambodia

From News Dispatches

SAIGON Aug. 2—New fighting flared up today in eastern Cambodia, where 3,500 South Vietnamese infantrymen launched a large sweep operation six days ago.

Incomplete reports from the battle scene said the South Vietnamese killed 21 North Vietnamese soldiers and took casualties of at least eight wounded.

The North Vietnamese force was estimated at company size, about 100 men.

Allied fighter-bombers and helicopter gunships supported the infantrymen in the day-long fighting south of Highway 1, the major road connecting Saigon and Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital. The area is about 85 miles northwest of Saigon.

Meanwhile, The South Vietnamese government, with U.S. financial backing, has launched a pilot program of "the 50 most wanted" Vietcong terrorists with rewards for individual captures ranging up to $11,000.

The program, being publicized nationwide on Vietnamese television, is being conducted in four provinces, one in each of the four military regions.

The Vietcong on the list are not top echelon members, but are known terrorists who have thrown grenades or engaged in other activities where civilian lives have been lost. If the captured Vietcong is dead and therefore cannot be interro-

gated, the reward amounts to about $360.

## U.S. Officials Keeping Magazine From Viets

SAIGON, Aug. 2 (AP)—One issue of a magazine published by the U.S. Information Service for rural Vietnamese is being kept in warehouse because it carries a picture of President Nguyen Van Thieu distributing land titles, U.S. officials said today.

Officials of the Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office decided that the picture might be construed as an attempt to boost Thieu's campaign for re-election in October, they added.

The monthly magazine, Huong Que (Native Perfume) is written and edited by Vietnamese who work for the U.S. organization. It has an estimated readership of 500,000 rural Vietnamese.

## Soviet Jews Held in Kiev

MOSCOW, Aug. 2 (UPI) — Twelve Jews who staged a demonstration prayer meeting at the Babyi Yar memorial at Kiev Sunday were detained for investigation, Jewish sources said today.

Babyi Yar is the site of the mass grave of tens of thousands of Jews whom the Nazis killed in 1942.

The demonstrating Jews drafted a petition to Soviet President Nikolai V. Podgorny asking for emigration papers to Israel. They were presumably detained on charges of loitering, the sources said.

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## Around the Nation

# Last 3 Flee Blazing

MIAMI — The last three men aboard the burning tanker Lacon abandoned the 575-foot vessel about 580 miles east of St. Augustine yesterday after the Coast Guard said “she’s a goner.”

The captain, second mate and radio operator left ship as it burned out of control. They were safely taken aboard the Venezuelan ship.

The other 37 members of the crew aboard the Librarian tanker were removed in lifeboats Sunday. The Coast Guard said the crew members would be taken to Newport News, Va., by the Icoa. None was believed injured.

The fire broke out early Sunday in the engine room. The Coast Guard had said the vessel was in serious trouble but was not in immediate danger of sinking.

They fed to say what caused the fire to worsen.

## Youths Arrested

More than 30 youths were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., after they tossed stones and bottles at police while attempting to crash the gate at a rock concert.

Meanwhile, in Augusta, Maine, four persons were arrested and several others injured when a motorcycle gang stormed police headquarters and fought with police in the streets.

## Grand Jury Aversion

SAN RAFAEL, Calif.—Black people and young people frequently refuse to serve on grand juries, a Marin County judge testified.

Judge Samuel W. Gardiner, 68, was questioned by attorneys for Angela Davis on procedures for selecting grand jurors in Marin County. Miss Davis has been indicted on charges growing out of the Marin court house shootout last August and is challenging the legality of the grand jury.

Judge Gardiner said young people who are well-qualified “won’t serve because they can’t afford the time away from their money-making activities.”

He also said that black people refuse to serve because they “do not want to be called ‘Uncle Toms’ for serving with an establishment organization.”

Allied Planes Level 2 of Enemy's Cambodian Havens

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Aug. 3 (AP)--Allied aircraft leveled two Cambodian villages today and drove out North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers blocking a South Vietnamese advance in eastern Cambodia.

The thatched-roof communities were hit repeatedly with fire bombs and rockets. Newsmen who accompanied South Vietnamese ground

forces said the strikes left many dead and sent others fleeing. South Vietnamese casualties were two killed and eight wounded, field reports said.

The Cambodian villagers were said to have fled before the battle, the second in two days in the same sector.

The air strikes were called in after intense fire from

Communist-led forces had stopped the 800-man South Vietnamese advance several times.

The fighting in the Parrot's Beak area of eastern Cambodia was the only major action in the Indochina war. Across the border in South Vietnam only small patrol clashes and isolated shellings were reported.

# S. Vietnamese Jets Level Two Villages in Cambodia

SAIGON, Aug. 3 (AP)—Allyed aircraft leveled two Cambodian villages today and drove out North Vietnamese and Vietcong soldiers blocking a South Vietnamese advance in eastern Cambodia.

The thatched roof communities were hit repeatedly with napalm fire bombs and rockets. Newsmen who accompanied South Vietnamese ground forces said the air strikes left many enemy dead and sent the others fleeing. South Vietnamese casualties were two killed and eight wounded, field reports said.

They reported that the Cambodian villagers had fled the area long before the battle, the second in two days in the same sector.

The fighting in the Parrot's Beak area of eastern Cambodia was the only major action reported in the Indochina war today. Across the border in South Vietnam, only small patrol clashes and isolated shellings were reported by the allied commands.

The area is eight miles south of Highway 1, the main Saigon-Phnom Penh route. The battle erupted about 55 miles west of Saigon and seven miles inside Cambodia.

An AP photographer who accompanied the South Vietnamese infantrymen reported the strikes destroyed a Buddhist pagoda, a school and numerous thatched homes—many of them by fire from the napalm.

The air strikes were called in after intense fire from Communist-led forces inside

the villages had stopped the advance by the South Vietnamese ground troops several times. These consisted of a battalion of rangers and a battalion of 25th Division Infantrymen, a total force of 800 men who had been lifted into the flatlands area in helicopters.

The operation is part of a larger sweep by 3,500 South Vietnamese troops launched last Wednesday to curb North Vietnamese infiltration into the southern half of South Vietnam and safeguard the forthcoming national elections from sabotage.

Almost all of the air strikes were carried out by South Vietnamese fighter-bombers and rocket-firing helicopters. Two U. S. helicopter gunships joined in the attacks but these were withdrawn after they mistakenly made strafing runs close to South Vietnamese forces, it was reported.

## Saigon Commanders

### Slap Field Officers

PHOM PENH, Aug. 3 (UPI)—Senior South Vietnamese military commanders publicly humiliated field officers by slapping their faces for allowing atrocities against Cambodian civilians, military sources said today.

The commanders lined up their field leaders in front of the residents of Kompong Trach, 75 miles southeast of Phnom Penh, for the face-slapping last Sunday, the sources said.

Cambodian officers had

filed official complaints that elements of a 2,000-man South Vietnamese force, near Kompong Trach had committed "numerous acts of rape, torture and thievery."

## Cambodians Detain

### Vietnamese Civilians

KBAL KRALONG, Cambodia Aug. 3 (UPI)—The 53 Vietnamese residents of this small Cambodian village have been arrested and jailed as prisoners of war.

The Vietnamese, including seven women and five small children, chose to stay behind in Cambodia last year when most of the country's 250,000 ethnically Vietnamese residents fled to South Vietnam.

Kbal Kralong was occupied by Communist forces about a year ago, and the Vietcong set up Cambodian liberation committees, using the residents of the village as front men.

## Warning Clears

### British Building

LONDON, Aug. 3 (UPI)—Police evacuated 400 employees from the Ford Motor Company's accounts department in Ilford today when an anonymous caller told Scotland Yard a bomb was in the building.

Police said a 45-minute search of the building uncovered nothing. Last March, a gelignite bomb damaged the building, but no one was injured.

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# Enemy Attacks Cambodian Gunboats

From News Dispatches

Three Cambodian soldiers were killed and 29 others wounded yesterday in a battle north of Phnom Penh in which naval gunboats and dive bombers were engaged along with infantry.

The fighting took place 50 miles north of the Cambodian capital in an area that had

been pronounced "govern-ment-controlled" Saturday following a 10-day operation to clear out Communist troops. There was only one small boat during the operation by 5,000 Cambodian troops.

A Cambodian spokesman said the battle began in mid-morning when Cambodian naval gunboats patrolling

seven miles west of the village of Prey Kry came under fire. Ground troops were brought in from the nearby city of Kompong Chang and aircraft later carried out strikes against enemy positions, the spokesman added.

Meanwhile, Cambodian refugees caught in battle zones along Highway 1 said in Siigon

yesterday that South Vietnamese soldiers looted their village, then robbed them of food and blankets they received at a refugee center.

Field reports said they alleged incidents occurred Friday and Saturday about 60-miles southeast of Phnom Penh in the Parrot's Beak province of Svay Riang.

# U.S. Jets Attack Gun Positions
## In North in 'Protective Reaction'

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Monday, Aug. 9 (AP) — Two American supersonic fighter-bombers yesterday attacked antiaircraft emplacements six miles inside North Vietnam that had fired on an American reconnaissance jet, the United States command announced today.

It was reported to be the 48th "protective reaction" strike inside North Vietnam this year. A spokesman, Maj. Richard Gardner, said that the United States aircraft had not been damaged and that the results of the strikes against the enemy sites were unknown.

The RF-4 reconnaissance plane apparently was photographing North Vietnamese defenses and troop and supply movements. The antiaircraft sites were reported attacked by two F-4 fighter-bombers escorting it.

In other air action, United States B-52 bombers stepped up their raids over the weekend against North Vietnamese supply routes and depots inside Laos and Cambodia, the command said.

Meanwhile, thousands of

South Vietnamese troops are operating in eastern Cambodia along Routes 1 and 7 leading into the southern half of South Vietnam.

The Saigon command said that its forces had killed 24 enemy soldiers in sporadic clashes in Cambodia and that five of its soldiers had been wounded.

South Vietnamese forces reported killing 48 of the enemy in four clashes in South Vietnam, two of them in an area south of Danang. South Vietnamese losses were put at 4 killed and 16 wounded.

## Cambodians in Battle

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Aug. 8 (AP) — Three Cambodian soldiers were reported killed and 29 wounded in a battle today that included Government naval gunboats and dive bombers along with the infantry.

The Cambodian command said only sketchy reports of the battle were available. Fighting was in the heart of an area that Cambodians had said they had cleared, about 50 miles north of the capital.

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U.S.-Aided Drive

By Murrey Marder

Washington Post Staff Writer

Cambodia is planning a winter offensive with "American air cover" and South Vietnamese ground support against Vietnamese Communist forces, Acting Prime Minister Sisowath Sirik Matak said here yesterday.

The Cambodian general told a press conference that he was "worried" before he left his capital of Phnom Penh that the United States

Penh that the United States
might "withdraw all troops
from South Vietnam." One of
his associates quickly inter-
jected, "in the near future."

"But after seeing President Nixon" on Tuesday, Sirik Matak said through an interpreter, this "worry is over."

Sirik Matak said that Cam-
bodia is now discussing plans
with the United States for the
intended "dry season" offen-
sive whose objective will be
to recapture four provinces in
the north and northeast now
controlled by North Vietnam-
ese and Vietcong forces.

This operation "will require
American air cover" plus rein-
forcing South Vietnamese
troops, he said. The dry season
in Cambodia begins in the
November-December period.

U.S. officials neither denied
nor disputed what Sirik Matak
told newsmen in a morning
meeting. The Cambodian
leader, who also serves as his
nation's defense minister, con-
ferred over lunch yesterday
with Defense Secretary Mel-
vin R. Laird and other U.S.
military planners.

Defense Department spokes-
men said afterward that the
meeting with Sirik Matak was
"private." But they noted that
Laird's position is that al-
though the American air com-
mitment in Southeast Asia is
not "open-ended," Laird would
recommend that the United
States provide air support to
countries "willing to help
themselves under the Nixon
Doctrine."

See MATAK, A9, Col. 1

CAMBODIANS TO ASK
'72 SAIGON PULLOUT

Lieut. Gen. Sisowath Sirik Matak, the Acting Premier of Cambodia, said here yesterday that his Government would ask South Vietnam to withdraw its troops from Cambodia by June, 1972.

By that time, General Sirik Matak said at a news conference in his suite at the Waldorf Towers, the Cambodian Army should be sufficiently well-equipped and organized to defend the country against the North Vietnamese by itself.

He said that the South Vietnamese would begin withdrawing troops from the eastern provinces this September and would complete the pullback by next June if there were no dramatic changes in the military situation.

There are 10,000 to 12,000 South Vietnamese fighting the North Vietnamese and Vietcong in the provinces east of the Mekong River. Their presence has been a source of constant friction and civilians have repeatedly accused them of looting and burning.

General Sirik Matak said he had discussed problems caused by these troops with Secretary General Thant of the United Nations this morning. The Acting Premier is on a 19-day visit to the United States.

Cambodian Troops Regaining Ground

By CRAIG R. WHITNEY
Special to The New York Times

PNOMPENH, Cambodia,
Sept. 17—Cambodian army
troops, taking advantage of
the current rainy season that
has flooded most of the Me-
kong Delta basin, have moved
out from the capital along
highland roads and have re-
established Government con-
trol in about half the national
territory, according to West-
ern sources here.

American military analysts
say that the advance of the
Cambodian troops south,
west and north of the capital
has been for the most part
unopposed by the enemy.

In June there was fighting

only a few miles east of
Pnompenh and the enemy
controlled about three-quar-
ters of Cambodia.

The Cambodians, feeling
more confidence now, are
saying that they would like
to take over the combat role
of the South Vietnamese
troops operating on the Viet-
namese-Cambodian border.

Plundering Protested

Incidents of plundering and
looting by South Vietnamese
troops, particularly in the so-
called Parrot's Beak area in
Svayrieng Province east of
Pnompenh, have led to pro-
tests by the Cambodian au-
thorities and to negotiations
for the eventual withdrawal
of Saigon's forces from Cam-
bodia.

But, according to both Cam-
bodian and American sources
here, there are no formal
high-level meetings under
way to discuss the question
urgently. "The Cambodians
know they aren't ready to
take over yet," one high-
ranking official said.

Another American here said:
"They have to organize prior-
ities—taking over the secu-
rity for the supplies up the
Mekong River; taking over
the security of Route 4 be-
tween Kompong Som [the
port city on the Gulf of

Siam] and Pnompenh, and
finally taking over the of-
fensive operations the Viet-
namese have been carrying
out in the eastern provinces."

The Cambodians want to
take over the South Vietna-
mese base at Neak Luong, a
ferry crossing point on the
Mekong River about 30 miles
south of Pnompenh.

But President Nguyen Van
Thieu said in Saigon a few
days ago that the Cambodians
are not ready yet. The Cam-
bodians will not even have
naval vessels to escort the
supplies up the Mekong until

Continued on Page 2, Column 3

The New York Times Sept. 19, 1971

Troops have moved out
from Pnompenh to extend
areas of army control.

SEP 19 1971

N.Y.T.

New Drive by Allies Reported
Along Border With Cambodia

Highway Is Objective

By The Associated Press

TAYNINH, South Vietnam, Thursday, Sept. 30—A large allied counteroffensive was reportedly begun yesterday against North Vietnamese forces along the Cambodian border near here in the hope of preventing them from interfering with South Vietnam's Presidential election on Sunday.

Nine South Vietnamese and United States generals held daylong strategy sessions here in preparation for the counter-drive.

Its objective was to reopen the 30-mile stretch of road leading north along Route 22 from Tayninh to Krek, which is eight miles inside Cambodia. It had been cut by North Vietnamese troops who appeared to be threatening to overrun half a dozen allied positions.

Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh, commander of South Vietnamese forces in the Third Military Region, which includes Saigon, about 60 miles south-east of here, said initial reports indicated that ground contact

Continued on Page 18, Column 6

NEW ALLIED DRIVE
ON ROAD REPORTED

Continued From Page 1, Col. 1

with the enemy was light. The
area to the north of Tayninh
had been under heavy pressure
since Sunday, reportedly from
elements of two North Viet-
namese divisions.

General Minh, who already
had the equivalent of two divi-
sions in the region, about
20,000 troops, said he had
moved in 4,000 reinforcements,
including two brigades of para-
troops from the Saigon area.

The United States command
reported moving 1,500 Ameri-
can troops and a squadron of
armored vehicles from rear
bases to the front, and United
States bombers heavily support-
ed the allied effort.

The American troops reinforced two United States artillery bases on the Cambodian border and filled a void at the Tayninh base camp and another base left vacant by South Vietnamese troops pushing out in the counteroffensive.

Support by U.S. Bombers

General Minh and his deputy,
Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Xuan Thinh,
said enemy attacks had sub-
sided after three days after
scores of United States B-52
heavy bombers and tactical
fighter-bombers bombed enemy
troop positions and rocket- and
mortar-launching sites.

The B-52 bombers, making
their first concentrated close-in
raids, were said to have flown
through heavy monsoon clouds
and to have been guided to tar-
gets within 1,000 yards of al-

lied bases by radar. General
Thinh said South Vietnamese
forces might have to retreat
from their bases on both sides
of the border unless the strong
United States support is
continued.

Maj. Gen. Alton D. Slay, who directs all United States bombing raids in Indochina, flew to this forward command post from his Seventh Air Force headquarters in Saigon to arrange for increased American raids.

"We're attempting to see
what we can arrange if the
weather doesn't break," he said.

General Slay was overseeing
the installation of beacons on
allied fire bases to guide bomb-
ers in during heavy overcasts.
He said the new system would
increase United States air
power.

In yesterday's action, one
South Vietnamese paratrooper
column pushed northward to
relieve an infantry company
surrounded and cut off at Tran-
hungdao, a fire base 18 miles
north of Tayninh and about 70

miles northwest of Saigon.

Some supplies were dropped
into the base by helicopter, but
there were reports of wounded
there awaiting evacuation.

By dusk, the paratroopers
were reported within two and
a half miles of Tranhungda
and to have set up their own
artillery to protect the besieged
base. Half of the guns at Tran-
hungdao were said to have been
disabled by enemy rockets and
mortars.

General Thinh said about 60
South Vietnamese wounded
were awaiting evacuation at
bases along Route 22. Some
were lifted out by helicopters
during a break in the weather.

American officers said that
the enemy forces were apply-
ing the heaviest pressure
around Krek in Cambodia and
Tranhungdao, the southern-
most South Vietnamese base on
Route 22.

"General Minh said the North
Vietnamese activity was timed
to coincide with Sunday's pres-
idential election and to exploit
political unrest in Saigon over
the election, in which Presi-
dent Nguyen Van Thieu is un-
opposed.

"The enemy plans to create
difficulties for us in the coun-
tryside," said General Minh.
"They want to disrupt the elec-
tions, create noise and keep
the people from going to vote.
They want to try to make a
good propaganda effect."

The New York Times

Sept. 30, 1971

LOW DRAFT CALL
EXPECTED TODAY

Pentagon's 3-Month Total
May Be Below 15,000

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (AP) —Resuming the draft after a three-month lapse, the Pentagon will announce tomorrow a new induction quota that will leave 1971 call-ups at the lowest annual total in nearly a decade.

A Pentagon spokesman, Jerry W. Friedheim, said the new call would cover inductions for October, November and December, and that this year's draft total would end up below 100,000 men. The last time the draft fell below 100,000 was in 1962, when the total was 76,500.

Mr. Friedheim did not give a firm figure for the October-November-December call, but he indicated that the total for the three months would be below 15,000.

A total of 84,000 men were inducted in the first six months of this year before the old draft law died June 30.

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## Enemy Again Attacks Base in Cambodia

SAIGON, South Vietnam, Saturday, Oct. 2 (AP)—Despite a nightlong pounding by allied aircraft, North Vietnamese troops were reported to have launched another ground attack early today against a South Vietnamese artillery base in eastern Cambodia.

Initial field reports carried no details of the results of the fighting at Fire Base Alpha, where South Vietnamese rangers and Cambodian troops have been under attack for a week. But the base five miles east of the rubber plantation town of Krek, was said to be still in allied hands, and South Vietnamese troops were expected to make a second attempt today to relieve its defenders.

A South Vietnamese relief column pulled back to Krek yesterday after it drove eastward on Route 7 to within two miles of the fire base, then bogged down against heavy enemy resistance.

Tactical fighter-bombers were

then called in against the enemy positions through the night, it was reported. Some of their bombs struck within 400 yards of Alpha's perimeter.

United States B-52 bombers also flew missions against the enemy positions early today, report said.

Another relief column of South Vietnamese troops yesterday reportedly broke the enemy siege of a second artil-

lery base, Tran Hung Dao, to the south of Alpha on the Vietnam side of the border.

The breakthrough ended five straight days of enemy shelling of the installation.

Allied commanders reported that United States B-52 bombers and smaller fighter-bombers had wiped out a big North Vietnamese supply base near the Cambodian frontier.

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Foreigners Receive Leaflet

Some foreign residents in Cairo reported having received "Leaflet No. 2" of the National Front, which was in English and which bore a symbol of a pyramid against a background of the Nile delta.

"Brethren compatriots," the leaflet opened, "we said in our previous call that we took upon ourselves to set free our Fatherland from the burden of Soviet

reiterates that it would not the Russians imperialism till the very end by all the ways and means in our possession."

Some Westerners who saw copies of "Leaflet N. 2" noted that it used the term "Soviets" rather than "Russians," which is normally used by Egyptians. The leaflet also transliterated the name of the Libyan leader as "Qaddafi," used by some Western publications. Egyptians generally transliterate the name "Gaddafy." It was uncertain, however, whether there was any significance in this.

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SAIGON, South Vietnam, Oct. 4 (AP)—A tank-led South Vietnamese rescue column fought its way through North Vietnamese lines this evening to relieve a besieged artillery base inside Cambodia, South Vietnamese spokesmen said.

The task force was said to have clashed several times with enemy troops before reaching the base, known as Alpha, and a nearby South Vietnamese contingent locked in heavy fighting just north-east of the rubber-plantation town of Krek.

Saigon headquarters said South Vietnamese troops had killed 154 North Vietnamese in pushing through to the artillery base and in the fighting near Krek. South Vietnamese losses in the two actions were put at 10 men killed and 49 wounded.

The artillery outpost, manned by South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops, has been under North Vietnamese shelling for nine days. The siege was part of a North Vietnamese offensive in the border region, a drive that ranged 60 to 90 miles northwest of Saigon.

## Enemy Covers Retreat

However, enemy rear guards were reported covering the retreat, and enemy antiaircraft crews were said to be deployed in the two most sensitive areas —one around Fire Base Alpha, three and a half miles east of Krek, the other astride Route 22 on the South Vietnamese side of the frontier in Tayninh Province.

General Minh reported the North Vietnamese pullout less than 24 hours after a tank-led South Vietnamese relief force pierced a North Vietnamese blockade of the fire base and relieved the garrison, which had been cut off for 10 days. Two earlier attempts had failed.

General Minh estimated that the North Vietnamese force totaled 3,000 men. He said it consisted of three regiments, all far under strength at about 750 men each. A regiment at full strength would have 2,900 men.

He identified the units as the 209th and 141st Regiments of the North Vietnamese Seventh Division, and the 174th Regiment of the Fifth Division. Both divisions were said to contain some Vietcong troops.

## Cambodians Said to Fall Back

PNOMPENH, Cambodia, Oct. 5 (Reuters)—A Cambodian task force that cut through an enemy ring around the provincial capital of Kompong Thom has reportedly fallen back after making brief contacts with troops inside the beleaguered city.

One of the Cambodian commanders said his men were preparing a fresh assault on entrenched North Vietnamese troops in an attempt to end the 18-month siege of the town 75 miles north of Pnompenh.