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...North Vietnamese went all put last week to make that impression stick. In a series of chest-beating radio broadcasts, Hanoi urged the Communist forces in South Viet Nam to "take advantage of our victory in Laos" by mounting "any action, large or small." Mortar, artillery and rocket fire continued to pepper Khe Sanh, Vandergrift and other bases near the DMZ, while bloody ground assaults disturbed the long peace in some supposedly "secure" areas. Deep in the somnolent Mekong Delta, nearly 150 Viet Cong ripped into the hamlet of Cang Long, killing 16 children, five women, six national policemen...
...base exploded. Hundreds of mortar shells arced down out of the moonless sky with uncanny accuracy. Hunkered down in their bunkers, the G.I.s never even saw the 50 or so North Vietnamese sappers who slipped through the perimeter wire, wearing nothing but shorts, black grease and strings of rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). One group wiped out the 155-mm. howitzers, another tossed tear gas grenades and satchel charges into the TOC, killing or wounding virtually everyone inside. Methodically, the others went from bunker to bunker, blowing them with satchel charges, RPGs and, in some cases, homemade grenades fashioned from Coca...
...border, not only in their own Sovietbuilt machines but in some of the 30 or more American-made M41 tanks abandoned by ARVN in Laos. East of the border at Khe Sanh, the former U.S. Marine outpost from which most of Lam Son's 600 helicopters operated, enemy rocket and artillery fire thudded in round the clock; one night last week 40 Communist sappers slipped past the perimeter wire and destroyed or damaged five choppers. At week's end G.I.s were dismantling everything that they had put together at the start of the operation, right down...
...Dacca, army tanks and truckloads of troops with fixed bayonets came clattering out of their suburban base, shouting "Victory to Allah," and "Victory to Pakistan." TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin, who, along with other newsmen, was subsequently expelled from Pakistan, reported: "Before long, howitzer, tank artillery and rocket blasts rocked half a dozen scattered sections of Dacca. Tracers arced over the darkened city. The staccato chatter of automatic weapons was punctuated with grenade explosions, and tall columns of black smoke towered over the city. In the night came the occasional cry of 'Joi Bangla [Victory to Bengal],' followed...
...Marines, and what many Americans consider ARVN's top infantry division, the 1st. Moreover, the operation underscored continuing deficiencies in crucial areas like communications. American pilots had problems with Vietnamese ground controllers, who have a tough time pronouncing words like "coordinate"-or speaking English at all while ducking rocket and mortar fire...