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...Communist forces. All five highways leading to the city were under siege, and three outposts along the road to the provincial capital of Takeo had been lost. More important, the Communists had severed, for the moment at least, the vital Mekong River supply route from South Viet Nam. A convoy of about a dozen ships, already ten days overdue in the Cambodian capital, was delayed in the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau while the Cambodian armed forces and U.S. bombers tried to clear the riverbanks of enemy rocket launchers...
JUST after the 11 p.m. curfew, a convoy of green and white police vans slid into a small alley off Phat Diem Street in Saigon's Second District. Policemen toting M-16 rifles and wooden clubs jumped out and sealed off the alley at either end. Pushing brusquely into each apartment, they demanded identity cards. Suspected Viet Cong sympathizers, draft dodgers or army deserters were hustled...
Since that time the rebellion has simmered in the North. The Portuguese keep it laidden from public viewas much as possible; the roads through the affected areas can only be traveled on in a military convoy...
...rioted to express its opposition to the presence of American bases in Japan under the U.S.-Japan mutual-security treaty. All to little effect. Now the protesters have a more peaceful-and potent-tactic. Since Aug. 5, when a group of Socialist demonstrators sat down in front of a convoy of tank transporters hauling five U.S. M48 tanks, the Army has been unable to move any armor into or out of its huge depot at Sagamihara, where military equipment is repaired for use in Viet Nam. Though some 200 tanks and armored personnel carriers are now bottled...
Escorted only by a squad of Lebanese military police, three carloads of visiting Syrian officers last week took a tour along Lebanon's border with Israel. The trip was uneventful until the tiny convoy reached Ramieh, a town eight miles inland from the Mediterranean where paved roads run parallel on both sides of the border. There the Syrians emerged from brush and trees along the Lebanese road to a startling sight. Scarcely a hundred yards away, five Israeli tanks and three halftracks lay in ambush for them on the other road...