Viet-Thai border fighting escalates with hundreds wounded
Casualties estimated from 600 to 1000 civilians wounded as Vietnamese forces widen operations along the Thai Cambodian frontier. Red Cross reports 223 wounded at Khao I Dang, hundreds at Nong Chan, 350 Thais at Aranyaprathet, with tens of thousands displaced or fleeing. Thai reinforcements move in. Vietnamese forces dug in near border, with air support and fighter jets on alert.
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Muskie urges NATO pressure for Afghan withdrawal
Secretary of State Edmund Muskie urged NATO foreign ministers in Ankara to press the Soviet Union for a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. He called for a sustained allied response to Soviet aggression and offered possible talks on arms limits and European security in exchange for withdrawal. He met with Turkish and Greek officials amid tone of renewed detente and Greek reentry talks.
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