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...tanks and armored personnel carriers sat immobile barely 15 miles inside Laos on jungle-bordered Route 9. Out on the flanks, where elite airborne and ranger units clung to rugged hilltop fire bases, Communist toops launched a series of furious assaults. First blood was drawn at an outpost about 14 miles inside Laos, where the ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) 39th Ranger battalion held out valiantly against a North Vietnamese force of regimental strength for three days before abandoning its positions. By the time the survivors had hacked their way through to another base two miles away...
Deeper inside Laos, at an outpost known as Hill 31, an ARVN airborne battalion was locked in a ferocious seesaw struggle with a Communist force of up to 2,000 men, backed by Soviet-made PT-76 light tanks. As the fighting raged, the smoking hulks of broken Communist tanks and shattered U.S. helicopters littered the battlefield; B-52 strikes thundered so close, said a downed chopper crewman, that the dust "made our eyes water." Though the outcome of the battle remained in doubt at week's end, the Lam Son toll was already substantial: in three weeks...
...United States is 18,000 miles away. It is probable that we are unable to win the war, and that the Lao generals will wish that they had followed the lead of the Pathet Lao's Souphanouvong, and chosen a protector closer to home, because defending an "outpost" 18,000 miles distant does not have the immediacy of defending one just across your borders...
...Cambodia, fighting between the South Vietnamese troops and their Cambodian allies broke out twice over the weekend. On Saturday night, according to the Associated Press, South Vietnamese marines attacked a Cambodian outpost at Veal Thom, seven miles outside of Phnom Penh. Later a Viet Cong force attacked the same outpost and a Cambodian spokesman said he did not know whether the three Cambodians killed and seven wounded were victims of the South Vietnamese or the Viet Cong...
...people at City Hall, in turn, see themselves as the last outpost of fiscal responsibility combatting narrow-minded self-interest on the part of local factions. They view Model Cities as a group that doesn't have to return regularly to the electorate, and therefore is free to spend federal money on any proposal designed to benefit people in the Model Cities area...