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...unfolded in Saigon. Near Soctrang, 90 miles south of the capital, a regional patrol stumbled on a regimental headquarters of 1,500 Viet Cong, who were dug into a field and camouflaged. Rangers, backed by air support that sowed the field with some 288,000 bullets, 4,000 20-mm. cannon shells, 1,552 rockets and 37,000 Ibs. of bombs, scattered the Red nest. At least 87 Viet Cong were killed and a record haul of Red weapons captured...
Nestled in a valley like a miniature Dienbienphu, the government strongpoint was attacked one night when hundreds of Viet Cong overran its two 4.2-mm. mortars, isolated on a nearby commanding hill. In a bitter three-day fight, the Reds virtually wiped out Anlao's 100 defenders. The attackers finally withdrew before air power and 1,000 counterattacking government troops, but there was concern over the capture of Anlao's guns-heaviest mortars the Reds have seized to date...
...King must be a "fervent Buddhist," but fervor in happy-go-lucky Laos covers a multitude of careless religious enthusiasms. Perennial civil war has left Buddhist practice virtually uninvolved, though near the Luang temple, skilled, cigarette-puffing monks cheerfully cast their Buddhas in brass melted down from 37-mm. and 105-mm. artillery cartridges...
...American air pirates" had been violating North Viet Nam's air space. Washington officials maintained that the planes had been clearly within the Laotian border, stressed the fact that escorting jets had "retaliated" with guns and rockets against the Communist antiaircraft batteries-probably Soviet-designed 1,4.5-mm. machine guns mounted on fast-moving armored cars...
Most of the B-57s crews were asleep when a little band of Viet Cong crept to within 2,500 yards of the Bienhoa flight line, took accurate aim and blasted the barracks and airstrip with 81-mm. mortars. G.I.s ran pell-mell from their bivouac as more than 100 rounds fell onto the sleeping quarters, injuring 72 and killing four. Already, the midnight raiders had pumped shell after shell onto the B-57s, destroying six and damaging at least six more...