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Saigon Still ParalyzedCourtBlock\\THOMAS CORPORASAIGON (UPI)-A Viet Congcivilians had been killedMayornkangaroo court set up in a Chinatown street today convicted and executedtriedgunshot a neighborhood residents said.His crime: “Being a tthebyarea and one Phuong Truong The judge,guerrillas engaged | reinforcedof them was a I the Vietnamese rangers andjury and executioner then faded away in theflaming streets of Cholon—Saigon’s Chinatown—where U.S. officials said the last intact Vietrangersbattle was still raging.;t Cong, 12 to 15 into a Cholontried to outflank before last andCong battalion rice was destroyed before theslippedpeople.’’ The condemned Cong battalion in the capital set afiremen,neighborhood and set an e block on fire. In another se Cholon a rice warehousehe city.I w\Battlefire was extinguished.Most of the fighting was inCholon. But Communist sniperswith “verv sonhistirpfpri Pnnin.To the southwest of the city, [ mentU. S. 101st Airborne Divisionscatteredthroughoutman was a Phuong Truong sort of mayor of the block. The Vietcourt’’ had htroops battled another Vietwas pursued by Vietnamese Viet Cong reportedly sur- j Cong unit. TheVienCong ‘ ‘peoples ’ had been set up near the HoarangersDaopagoda in an alley just three blocksheadquarters of Police confirmed that severalthe alliesBattle Still RagingThe rangers caught up with the guerrillas twice today. TwoViet Cong died in a hail of 1 low.bulletsCholon. Later, south of therounded a power station in the suburbs west of Cholon. Reportsthe station was holding out food and fuel were runningNortheast of Saigon Vietnamese paratroopers fought a I spokesman said about halfScreamingEagles overran a Communistheadquarters.The guerr.l!rice warehouse with antitank rockets that plu. e j the build-flames. A governmentSaigon kept civil government and commerce paralyzed, officials said.Saigon’s markets remainedclosed today. Even outside the attacked the j downtown area few shops wereopen. Although the governmentinsists it has enou the people, thepeople areworried and prices soared
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Wed, Feb 07, 1968
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