Word: attack
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...anti-Communist regime of Premier Lon Nol announced that it had invited Thailand to send several thousand troops to help defend it against attack from the increasingly wide-ranging Communist troops. South Viet Nam, besides moving ARVN regulars into Cambodia to clean out the sanctuaries, has ordered all available troops from its own Khmer minority to take up the defense of their ancestral home, and about 2,000 are in Cambodia...
With the help of emergency reinforcements, the Cambodian army repelled both attacks. At week's end the Communists were reported withdrawing toward the centuries-old ruins. Fearful of battle damage to the remains of the storied Khmer empire, one of the world's most treasured antiquities, the Cambodian government ruled out either a defense of the monuments or an attack if they were taken. One rumor had it that the deposed chief of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, might try to move his exile government to Siem Reap. Most observers figured, however, that the Communists picked the temple area...
Problem Areas. The job is less complicated in the two northern corps areas, which are still vulnerable to attack from Communist-held sanctuaries in northeastern Cambodia and southern Laos. In recent weeks, groups of North Vietnamese regulars have raided the picturesque lakeside resort of Dalat in the Central Highlands three times. Their most recent attacks were aimed at the airport, the National Military Academy and a government-owned villa where Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky frequently vacations. After killing at least 17 South Vietnamese, the Communists holed up in three Roman Catholic institutions and pinned down government forces from sharpshooter...
...isolated ARVN artillery base named Tun Tavern, on a mountain ridge 21 miles south of the demilitarized zone. North Vietnamese regulars, who apparently entered through Laos, overran the outpost, killing 50 and wounding 119. The South Vietnamese, with the help of U.S. advisers, recaptured the base, but the attack underscored the blunt admission of a U.S. officer: "I Corps and II Corps are our problem areas now." In I Corps, the number of small-unit contacts in recent weeks has averaged more than the total in all the other military regions combined...
...type offense seems to be in the making, though it remains to be seen if Yovicsin has a passer at his disposal. He came to Harvard with a reputation for strong passing teams, but Ric Zimmerman has been the only quarterback here to provide the Crimson with an air attack...