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Hit Villages Near SaigonEnemy TakesBig Losses In FightingSAIGON (UPfJ—North Vietnamese troops unleashing what a captured prisoner said was a final offensive to mm Me Vietnam” seized two villages on the northern fringes of Saigon today awl then held off 2,000 U.S, awl South Vielnamcse troops in house-to-house fight-■tag.The fourth day of the Communis offensive sent several thousand North Vietnamese attacking the villages of Dong liach and Ho Nai near die American base at Bien Hoa and Long Blnb, 15 miles northwest of Saigon. U.S, artillery and air strikes turned part of the urban area into flames.The Communist offensive Inflicted losses on more than 100 South Vietnamese villages andU.S. bases, including nine helicopters destroyed at Clw Chi, about 20 miles to the west of Saigon, But Itie loss to the Communist b was staggering.The Communists lost 133 dead in the fighting near Bien Koa and Ohu Chi, another 166 in a major battle Tuesday near Quang Neal on the coast ami 157 in a battle near the Cambodian border.Since the beginning of the offensive earty Sunday the Communists have lost an estimated 8,500 killed, U.S. officials rejxwled. American Josses were put at 200 dead. South Vietnamese troop* at 400 and South Vtainame.se civiliansat 130.The fighting rtld not compare in scope with Ihe Communist Tet offensive of Inst year but it set off (he heaviest ground fighting in many months. Allied officials si ill believed the main push wa3 aimed at Saigon.A North Vietnamese soldier captured today In fighting around U.S. Army headquarters at Long Blnh, base for a 40,000 man Americun unit, said Ihe Communist troops were told tho fLsrcmlls would Iw the final attack to reunite Vietnam.”The soldier, Pvt. Tran Van Tblen, 18, said a Communist jxilitical commissar told theQeaingerNixon Gets Dledge Of ConfidenceBONN (UPI)—President Nix-m arrived in West Germany oday on the third leg of his European trip and won quick insurance of the Bonn govern-ncnt's ''full confidence'* in his jlan to begin talks with the lt;reml!n to ease world tensions,Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesln-?er gave toil pledge of support n the Rhlne-sidc Palerig Chaum-Dorg after Nixon declared he svould make no agreement with Moscow that would impair NATO. He had given similar aswraiKei in Brussels and London,The exchange of guarantees came at the end of Ihcir first round of political talks in Kdcslngeris office In the while-walled palace, heavily guarded today by the Federal Border DeFense Force and mounted policemen who kept 306 curious person* away from the buXng,Nixon arrived in prosperous West Gem any from Ixxxkxi, landing In a snow storm thatwm turning into s lt;totzz2e, Ihe weather forced the Nixon-KiostaRer party to travel by limousine into Boon Instead of taking helicopter*.In his formal airport rtate-ment, Nixon pledged enew Ameriea’a promise to champion reunification of divided Germany. He called It a “commitment, part of three basic goals dedicated to the orderly construction of a durable peace in Ihe world.”Although the inotatnent weath-or marred the President's visit, none of tho anti-American demonstrations that occurred during his earlier *lopn in Brussels and Uxxkai were reported here. However, lcftw-ing extremist students in West Berlin have threatened to block his passage with huge demonstrations when be vislEs that city 110 miles Inside East Germany on Thursday.Nixon and bis Gorman host began their political talks in thebackseat of a Cadillac limousrino ..........bearing Warrington, D.C. I iroops the disastrous attack onlicense plates on ihe drive From Wahn Airport,They continued K in Kiorin-gor's office for another 56 minutes with only interpreter* present.An iKHir before lunch they were joined by Secretary of Slate William P. Rogers and Foreign Minister Willy Brandt and other advisors. After this conference itoey walked from the pulare to the villa Hnmmorschnridt next door, official residence of F’rcsidcnl Hcnrieh Luchko, for a 15-mimite chat lK?foc lunch.t Bloomfield nice Is Studiedlocation would need * five-acre plol for their traitor,Tlds would Include. noted Gladstone, farm hired help, A f ner would have to sd off a five-acre kit for tho worker lo live In a trailer on llic (arm property. With shaking heads, board members expressed ^posit ion. Thai won't go, *rid lt;me official.Concern was also expressed about young people who couldn't afford to purchase properly, build homes, or Ixiy the necessary five-acres !c* trailer laml. “Where arc the young people g'ing to live? asked supervisor HaroM Shafer. I can't see this ftvo-aere k* business, he TKklcd.Goal Declared Gladstone said restrictions on single trailers were aimed at encouraging concentrated rlta er P *i acattcrfd development, Members of the two boards were urged to sltfdy the proposed ordinance and come up with(CiiMmi* m ra#t I, Cato T1.0jig Blob Sunday “would Ixj easily successful. That attack cost Uig Communists J32 Heart.Thicn said lh*» Com munis Is promised that afior this offensive they could return to Norlh Vietnam. He also said Ihcy were I old Hie men at 1/Hig Utah were “desk soldiers’* and tiiry could tonve all Ihe € rations llicy could eat.TJkj lieavtasl fighting of Ihe day ruged uround ihe villages of Dong bach and Ho Nai where U.S. nnrt South Viclnntnese tanks were hying lo ellskxlgft ihe North Vietnamese, Itiii the biggest Communist losses up-parenlly were farlhcr nor Hi.South Vietnamese spokesmen said the Communist at lucks in flic Qua jig Ngai area Inflicted heavy casualties on a force of R00 govirrnmcnt Infantrymen.Ibit In lor I ho .Sotilh Vieira mosn willi the aid of artillery awl air strikes killed 168 of the Hods.War communiques reported 50 more Communist barrages into cities and nilrtKl bases during the night and said (he Reds had invaded tho lieaquarlcrs of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division norlh of Saigon and destroyed nine iiclicoplrr.s. kill* tag 17 Americans.Opening with a [WtciH niortiif and rocket barrage, the Cum-journals tried a I h roe-pronged allack against the Bien Won air base itself and swept inlo the two neighboring villages.UPI corrD9ixnlt;tent Nal Gib-son sakJ I lie Ihrce Ihmst* M die base, I he world's busiest airport with more than 770,000 takeoffs and landings in 1066, were turned back but the guerrillas captured Dong Uich and Ho Nai.AM led commanders sealed offthe towns and ordered Lhe U.S. Army’s Vietnam headquarters at Long Binh five miles away on red alert. Seven waves of B52 bombers slammed 1.4 million pounds of bombs inla tho 40,000 - man Communist threat lo Saigom
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Wed, Feb 26, 1969
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