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TroopsLeaveLaosSAIGON (UPI)—South Vietnam withdrew the last of ils army and armor front 1iU0.itoday, leaving only a smallrearguard of marines in thefinal phase of the controversial drive against the Ho ClhMinli Trail Americans begun pulling out of Khe Ranh us Communist tanks and Infantry-men neared the border of South 'ci Vietnam. cU.S. air strikes destroyed ' four North Vietnamese tanks n and damaged Uvo today, hut U.S. helicopter pilot 1st l.l. Erick Heinlz, 25, of Spokane, ^•Wash., said in Khc Saiih, Ike rt way the Communists are ^ moving they* 11 le on top of this place in a week.” gIn northern Laos, 400 miles ^ north of the 45-day-old Soul I. c Vietnamese operation, a Luo-lian ' military spokesman said heavy fighting broke out today only half a mile north of the airfield at the royal capital ftf j, Luang Prabang. Twenty-five ^ American dependants were . flown out earlier but. Kin? Savang Vatthana stayed on. despite what spokesmen called 1 a “critical situation. 1Saigon and Pentagon Spokes- 1men saw the incursion as af victory that disrupted the llo • a Chi Minh Trail, slowed down 1 Communist operations In South ' d Vietnam and Cambodia fcr many weks and destroyed vast quantities of war materiel. Saigon said its troops destroyed or captured more than 176(Ki(i tons of enemy munitions and \ killed 13,000 Communist sob diers In a 10 to 1 kill ratio.\m However, on Tuesday the Pentagon said for the first lirr.c that the drive had ben cut ft short because the North Vietna-r -mcse threw in superior troops. n The Defense Department said y the drive would have lasted :1~ several weeks longer if Hie ^ Noilh Vietnamese had not reacted so strongly.M Khe Sanh, 12 miles inside the t, border from Laos, came undar ►1, heavy rocket and mortar attack 10 today, but UPI correspondent th Stewart Kcllerman reported ul from there that flight afler flight of Cl30 Hercules Irons-port planes airlifted men out of Khe Sanb on an around-ihe-clock schedule.Exact status of the Soulh Vietnamese marine rearguard was not certain. Field reports said there were less than 2,0013 |1G left, nil near the one remaining -1.1' artillery base called Hotel, two ™ miles inside Laos and two miles on south of Route 9. They were not using radios so they would not “5 give their positions away hut ,ir were-believed moving through a.n the jungles to the border.i/[Keller man said I roops pulling D' out of Khe Sanh included 100 on men from the 101st Airborne ml Division, Air Force adminislia-:ay live units and South Vietna-to mese Rangers and Marines who his had Guarded the base perlmc-
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger
Canandaigua, New York, US
Wed, Mar 24, 1971
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