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North Vietnamese troops retreated under the furious lash of U. S. air power yesterday as South Vietnamese forces pushed westward across parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Southern Laos...
...communique issued in Washington and Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu said the thrust was aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and North Vietnam's supply and infiltration network in the Laotian panhandle...
...flow of supplies, as was done in Cambodia last spring (see THE WORLD). An evident further goal: to reduce Communist pressure on the regime of Cambodian Premier Lon Nol. Such a campaign, pitting Saigon's forces against North Vietnamese regulars and other Communist troops on the Ho Chi Minh Trail through southern Laos, would involve high stakes. Among the possibilities would be a serious defeat for the South Vietnamese army or, conversely, an ARVN victory that could close the Ho Chi Minh Trail's vital flow of Communist supplies southward. The entire situation in Indochina could change drastically...
...main U.S. concern is the increasing flow of rice, fuel, ammunition and other supplies down the Ho Chi Minh Trail, which became more important to the Communists than ever when the Cambodian port of Kompong Som (Sihanoukville) was closed to them last year. In December, a U.S. bomber hit a jungle-covered truck depot 700 yards off the trail. Subsequent raids caused 7,000 secondary explosions and ignited fires that sent smoke rising 6,000 ft. That find and others like it have strengthened Washington's belief that the Communists are scrambling to restock the sanctuaries along the South...
...objective of the invasion would be to sever the Ho Chi Minh trail leading from North Vietnam through Laos into South Vietnam. The jungle trail is the main route for reinforcements and supplies being transmitted from North to South Vietnam. An additional objective would be to relieve the forces of Premier Souvanna Phouma in Laos, Souvanna said on Sunday that he was convinced that the North Vietnamese are planning a general offensive against Laotian government positions, weakened by constant warfare with Pathet Lao forces since...