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...ARVN force was to have been choppered 48 miles across the trail area to Attopeu, an important Communist-occupied Laotian town on the edge of the Bolovens Plateau; but helicopters supplying the Route 9 operation have been too busy to be diverted to the Attopeu mission...
...Tchepone, a Communist staging area and a key control point for the Ho Chi Minh Trail 25 miles inside the Laotian panhandle. A second possibility was that ARVN troops would be helicoptered to the mountainous Bolovens Plateau, which forms the western flank of the trail. Their likely objective: Attopeu and Saravane, two Laotian river towns captured last spring by North Vietnamese troops, apparently in an effort to secure the trail's flanks and provide a starting point for a riverine route into Cambodia...
...northern Laos took the major bases of Na Khang and Moung Soui, rendered Sam Thong inactive as a center for refugee operations, and installed themselves in force southwest of the Plain of Jars for the first time. In southern Laos they captured the provincial capitals of Saravane and Attopeu, and extended their control over most of Laos' six southern provinces...
...Communist troops still estimated to be in Cambodia, moreover, are moving swiftly to establish new supply lines. Even now they are knitting together a river network that will supplement the Ho Chi Minh Trail. In southern Laos, North Vietnamese regulars two weeks ago overran Attopeu, a town on a Mekong River tributary called the Se Kong; last week they menaced Saravane, another strategically located town. Along the Mekong in northern Cambodia, Communist troops have captured Kratie and Chhlong; last week they attacked Stung Treng, a key town at the confluence of the Se Kong and the Mekong, and sent...
...Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar attacks and surrounded the provincial towns of Lao Ngam, Saravane and Attopeu...
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