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...involved with those students [in the Wall Street fighting]. There's not a man among us who is proud of what he did. But we just couldn't stand there and take it any more. They were waving Viet Cong flags. Some of them spit on our flag. It was just a spontaneous reaction on our part. Look, there were a lot of World War II and Korean veterans there. Some 18-year-old punk does that-what does he expect...
...South Vietnamese patrol craft extended their coastal quarantine to a 70-mile stretch of the Cambodian coastline. At Neak Luong, South Vietnamese Marines and heliborne troops recaptured the vital Mekong River ferry crossing in a battle that left 139 Communists dead. Farther up the Mekong, North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were making determined stands. And north of the border, the Communists were putting so much pressure on Laos that a spokesman in Vientiane said it might become "a necessity" to ask South Vietnamese troops to help "clean up" the country...
...again, if necessary." Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was equally outspoken. Resplendent in black flying suit and purple scarf, Ky helicoptered into Neak Luong and told newsmen that ARVN troops would remain in Cambodia for "at least months." When the Cambodians "can fight the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong by themselves, we will go home," said Ky, sounding like a U.S. general discussing Vietnamization...
...towns and highways south of Phnom-Penh, but the allied quarantine of the coast may have foreclosed Hanoi's hopes of staking out new sanctuaries in the lower half of Cambodia. Attacks on the Mekong towns above Phnom-Penh confirm that most of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong are spilling into the northeast and northwest quadrants of the country. Their temporary destination may be the quiet shores of Tonle Sap Lake, 70 miles north of Phnom-Penh. There they would be near the Cambodian rice bowl and a rich supply of fish, while waiting for a chance...
...been the Channel 11 news telecasts from Saigon, which feature clips of the fighting. Some residents wonder, however, just how long the city will remain so remote from the war. As one Western military observer in Phnom-Penh warns: "I wouldn't be surprised to see Viet Cong mortars dropping in here as this struggle goes...