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U. S. SOLDIERS (Continued from Page 1)Vietnam empty into the Sepone area, from which supplies aresent southward.The drive was supported by massive U.S. air strikes into Laos, an offense by B52s and fighter-bombers that entered its 118th day today. U.S. helicopter gunships and supply planes alsowere involved.Few CasualtiesThe U.S. command said the drive had encountered little resistance as the Allies reoccupied a string of bases already famous -Khe Sanh, the Rock-pile, Camp Carroll, Cam Lo, Lang Vei—all of them just below the demilitarized zone(DMZ),A spokesman said total casualties so far were three Americans wounded and four Communist soldiers killed.The news blackout lifted today was the most severe of the 10-year-old war in Vietnam. It had given the Communist nations a field day for propaganda blasts against the United States and aroused misgivings among some congressional leaders.The Communist nations charged that South Vietnamese already had invaded Laos, and the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said on Tuesday American officers were commanding them. Communist China said today the Allies were “poised” to invade Laos.And in Paris today the chief Hanoi negotiator, Xuan Thuy, and the Viet Cong negotiator, Mme. Nguyen Thai Binh, charged U.S. and South Vietnamese troops actually were inside Laos and that the Nixon administration was trying to cover up.Laos Claims NeutralityIn Vientiane, Laotian Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma said if an actual invasion were underway he would protest to the Soviet Union and Great Britain, co-chairmen of the Geneva Convention on Laos. At the same time he reported a North Vietnamese offensive in Laos had swept 25 miles past the government bastion of Muong Soui and threatened to cut the land routes between Vientiane and Luang Prabang, the royal capital to the north.The sweep covered rugged terrain over two provinces and was launched Jan. 30 to counter a ‘‘significant Communist threat to Allied forces in South Vietnam’s northern quarter, the command said.News of the drive, called Operation Dewey Canyon II, had been withheld for security reasons for six days under the most stringent news embargo of the Indochina War.The command said the troops reoccupied the abandoned Marine fortress of Khe Sanh and other outposts in the drive which stretched from the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) southward to the A Shau Valley.The U.S. command said the drive was aimed at breaking up Communist troop and supply buildups along the Laotian border “to facilitate continued withdrawal of U.S. forces and advance the Vietnamizaticn program.”American and South Vietnamese troops in the drive had by today met little resistance fromthbeMrenopibedibedrfntadrneBiindrerrefilt;ofsbalsoorwithylt;giatCDthC(1exPihlt;PDwdrwccCcar th ar th tr c YinEiComintellcaternine27,00ArinchAmeAirtInfaisippry £ spok Th secufrom whic also outp day in A Th
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Decatur Daily Democrat
Decatur, Indiana, US
Thu, Feb 04, 1971
Page 4
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