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...credibility of the optimistic official Pentagon and White House assessment of the Laos campaign received a jolt yesterday when the U. S. Command in Saigon quietly revealed that nearly half of the Saigon troops sent into Laos are now dead, wounded or missing in action. The figure was twice that given by the official South Vietnamese spokesman...
...Command also revealed that it believes Saigon's estimates of North Vietnamese troops killed by U. S. air action in Laos to be nearly four times higher than the actual figure. Saigon officials had been claiming that U. S. planes and helicopter gunships flying in support of ARVN troops had killed some 14,000 rebel troops in Laos. President Nixon had been emphasizing the importance of these North Vietnamese "losses" in recent statements, and Joseph Alsop, the ever-obliging hawk columnist, went so far as to treat his readers of two days ago to a lurid description of how some...
...helicopter forces, under increased attack from North Vietnamese gunners inside Laos, began yesterday to pull out of their command post at Khe Sanh near the Laotian border...
Several border command posts, including the headquarters of the South Vietnamese rangers, were under heavy attack. Khe Sanh, the U.S. operational base for helicopters, was shelled for the seventh straight day on Sunday...
...North Vietnamese regiment numbering up to 2000 men defied B-52 raids that laid down nearly 100 tons of bombs and attacked a South Vietnamese marine command post only five miles from the South Vietnamese border...