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Bricks and Mortar...
...pilots have reported heavy North Vietnamese mortar and rocket fire at the base, which they claim is "doomed." Because of the heavy fire pilots are having difficulty flying in supplies, and some South Vietnamese forces were reported running low on artillery ammunition...
...Military sources reported yesterday that rocket and mortar shelling of Khe Sanh, a South Vietnamese supply point and flight center for operations into Laos, has been the heaviest since...
...begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself," he later told reporters. "But I was told it was much...
...faster movement. North Viet Nam moved two divisions out of areas south of the DMZ and into the Laotian panhandle, bringing total Communist troop strength along the trail to 30,000. Company-size units engaged the South Vietnamese in more than a dozen battles, usually night-time rocket and mortar attacks on lonely ARVN fire bases. In the heaviest fighting of the campaign, the Communists reportedly overran one base and cut off at least two others. South Vietnamese casualties officially rose to 147 dead and were probably much higher; Communist casualties were...