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- ftCarriaott (Ark.) fllmteg—Monday, Feb. 7, 1972Battles Rage on Dozen Frontslio-ntfytao-e-d-n-cherii-in-JStib-m-itilhe»y,In*mngal-hek’sWrforourrithley000cu-nk,sasof-1 n-sed ras ral-omBy george esper associated Press WriterSAIGON (AP) - South Vietnamese forces battled the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong today and Sunday at a dozen points from the northern end of the country to the southern tip. It was one of the heaviest periods of action this year, military spokesmen said.The South Vietnamese command claimed 77 enemy troops killed in the scattered fighting, while 20 South Vietnamese troops were reported killed and 55 wounded.No American casualties were reported in engagements with enemy troops, but the U.S. Command said one GI was killed and five were injured when a shell exploded acciden tally inside a 175mm gun at an artillery base near Da Nang. The command said the accident is being investigated.The heaviest fighting raged through the mangrove swamps of the U Minh Forest, at the southern end of the Mekong Delta, and on the Ca Mau peninsula to the east. In five clashes in that region, 51 ene my troops and 15 South Vietnamese soldiers were reportec killed and 40 government troops were wounded.Along the eastern end of the demilitarized zone, South Viet namese marines reported an other nine North Vietnamese killed and said one marine was wounded. And in Quang Nga province south of Da Nang three enemy were slain in raid, the South Vietnamese Command said.Two small fights were reported in the central highlands provinces of Kontum ancPleiku, where U.S. officials have been predicting a major north Vietnamese offensive, nemy forces attacked a vil-age defended by militiamen in Contum province, and two' '6f he enmy were reported killed and one militiaman was wounded. Two South Vietnamese infantrymen were killed and three wounded in an engagement in Pleiku Province, while enemy losses were not mown.Three other small fights occurred 20 to 50 miles north of Saigon. Twelve North Vietnamese and Viet cong were reported killed, while South Vietnamese losses were put at three men killed and 10 wounded.Field commanders attribute the continuing upsurge in fighting to more active allied patrolling to reduce the Communist command’s ability to launch attacks during the Tet festival of the lunar new year beginning Feb. 15 and during President Nixon’s visit to Red China beginning Feb. 21.U.S. B52 bombers kept up their heavy attacks along the western side of the central highlands and the northwest frontier, hitting at enemy troop and supply buildups....PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -Two city boys had a brief and unsuccessful fling at horse thieving, police report.Officers aid the boys found two horses tied up outside a golf course restaurant Sunday, mounted them and galloped off.After a short chase officers, alerted by a police helicopter, arrested one boy, who had been knocked off his mount by a tree limb.The other boy dismounted from the horse’s rear, received a kick in his own, limped to a car and escaped,Officers didn’t identify the youths.
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Harrison Daily Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Mon, Feb 07, 1972
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