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...main South Vietnamese force of 10,000 troops and 100 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...
...report major South Vietnamese operations in Laos. Officially, their only source of information is briefings by U.S. and South Vietnamese officers. U.S. helicopter pilots have been forbidden to carry correspondents into Laos. And when some American flyers leaked word to newsmen last week about an embattled South Vietnamese Ranger battalion, they were promptly prevented from having further conversations with correspondents. The pilots' operations center at Khe Sanh is now ringed with barbed wire and guarded by gruff MPs, who are under strict orders to keep all civilians...
...base is five miles from a point where a South Vietnamese ranger base was overrun last weekend with severe losses to the defenders...
Field reports said six more U.S. helicopters were shot down or damaged in trying to defend the South Vietnamese ranger bases in Laos...
Four of the six American helicopters that were downed were hit Tuesday and two more on Wednesday at one of the ranger bases that the American-supported South Vietnamese are setting up in Laos. It was no reported how many of the six damaged helicopters were lost...