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...Their mission: a strike at the Communist high command hidden in groups of heavy concrete bunkers at several points beyond the border. Farther south, troops of the South Vietnamese army (ARVN), aided by U.S. advisers, helicopters and medical teams, swept into another Communist stronghold known as "the Parrot's Beak," located only 35 miles from Saigon. U.S. planes, meanwhile, began bombing the three other sanctuaries. By week's end the two ground forces reported a combined enemy death toll of 398; they suffered at least eight killed, 'including five Americans...
Yesterday's two massive drives into the areas of Cambodia known as Parrot's Beak and Fishhook accounted for 1952 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, 14 American, and 151 South Vietnamese deaths...
...operations begun Wednesday in the "Parrot's Beak" region of southern Cambodia-described by Nixon as "exclusively South Vietnamese ground operations, under South Vietnamese command. with the United States providing air and logistical support"-will continue Nixon did not commit troops to the central area of Cambodia, which is also involved in conflict...
Seeking to consolidate authority in their all-important sanctuaries leading to South Viet Nam, Communist forces last week closed in on two key border cities. In the "parrot's beak" area jutting into South Viet Nam, they surrounded Svay Rieng Ville on three sides. Moreover, they moved to within striking distance of the Mekong River ferry linking Svay Rieng with Phnom-Penh, leading some observers to speculate that they hoped to lure a large defense force across the river and trap it there. To the south, a combined force of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops advanced...
Sean Flynn arrived in Cambodia on April 2, on assignment for TIME. The next day he joined TIME Correspondent Burton Pines in a rented car headed for Parrot's Beak, a jut of Cambodia that cuts into South Viet Nam about 40 miles west of Saigon. Pines reports: "In one village, where the V.C. had burned a district office that Sean wanted to photograph, we two Americans created quite a commotion. Sean, especially, fascinated them. Six feet tall, strikingly handsome, with long blond hair almost to his shoulders, he wore only sandals, khaki shorts, a white pullover and love...