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...last year. Now the supply will be speeded up-and broadened. Defense Secretary Clifford announced last week a dramatic increase in the U.S. production of the M-16 so as to equip all ARVN units by midsummer. The South Vietnamese will also be issued a new type of improved mortar, more armored personnel carriers, better communications equipment. They will also get more helicopter support to increase their firepower and mobility...
...there was no enemy to be seen, though an occasional artillery or mortar round still whistled in on the camp. What the Marines were watching was the approach of the vanguard of Operation Pegasus, a relief force of 30,000 Marines, Army troopers and South Vietnamese soldiers. The relief columns advanced down National Route 9 to ward Khe Sanh almost without opposition; they were accompanied by heliborne troopers, who were the first to reach the camp, landing on Khe Sanh's pocked runway. Thus, after 76 harrowing days, the siege of Khe Sanh last week came to an ironic...
...strikes a day against North Viet Nam, twice hitting a vital railroad-highway bridge and power plant in the port city of Haiphong. U.S. planes also kept up relentless pressure on the Communists surrounding the besieged U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, though 100 to 300 rounds of mortar and rocket fire continued to pour into the garrison each day. Last week the Marines...
...border of northeast Thailand-a threat so close to home that Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman warned Hanoi that the Thais might have to take direct action to aid Laos. Worst of all is the situation in southern Laos, where North Vietnamese forces have cut road links, launched mortar attacks and surrounded the provincial towns of Lao Ngam, Saravane and Attopeu...
...Viet Nam footage he screened on his CBS newscast one night last week was particularly poignant for Walter Cronkite. It showed a mortar bar rage at the Khe Sanh airstrip that wounded both the co-producer of his show, Russ Bensley, and CBS Cameraman John Smith. Neither Smith nor Bensley, who was filling in for an injured CBS sound man at the time, was seriously hurt. But three days later, after evacuation to Danang, Producer Bensley was wounded again during a rocket attack. His colon was ruptured and his spleen had to be removed. "The irony of it," said...