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Toward that end, Lon Nol three weeks ago launched his government's first large-scale offensive military action since seizing power. A 5,000-man force, borne by trucks and civilian buses, set out to clear a 50-mile stretch of Route 6 to Kompong Thorn, whose overland links have been cut for months. Only 17 miles along Route 6, which stretches like a muddy arrow through the countryside's monsoon-flooded paddies, the force ran into heavy enemy resistance at the hamlet of Tang Kauk. After losing 19 dead and 124 wounded in an eight-hour firefight...
...tons of rice, forcing the passengers to act as porters, then destroyed both locomotives with B40 rocket blasts. That line also runs through the provincial capital of Battambang, where most of Cambodia's rice reserves are stored in warehouses. Heavy fighting was reported at TonleBet and Kompong Thorn, two northern cities that have been under frequent attack for weeks...
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, retreating westward from their occupied sanctuaries, struck targets over a wide area of Cambodia. One force blew up a bridge and entered the city of Kompong Thorn, capital of the province just north of the capital province of Kandal. Another overran the river town of Setbo, a mere ten miles from Phnom-Penh, and held it for two days before being driven back by two hastily summoned and ill-equipped battalions of Cambodian soldiers. The Vietnamese Communist forces in Cambodia were reinforced by relatively small numbers of Cambodian Communist troops (the Khmer Rouge...
Last week, Dr. George Thorn, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics and chief of medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, met with the staff of the center for community health...
...League has long been a thorn in the NCAA's side, often quarreling with the Council- and power-mad president Walter Byers- over such issues as the mandatory 1.6 grade point rule. It is time that it cause a serious blow to NCAA authority by a powerful and unwavering protest over the Council's meddling where it clearly has no place...