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...communique issued in Washington and Saigon, President Nguyen Van Thieu said the thrust was aimed at cutting the Ho Chi Minh Trail and North Vietnam's supply and infiltration network in the Laotian panhandle...
...officials in Saigon said last night that the South Vietnamese push is being given full U.S. combat support, including tactical fighter-bombers, helicopter gunships and troop-carrying helicopters. They said medical evacuation helicopters and logistic support will also be provided...
...South Vietnamese embassy announced the invasion minutes before Thieu issued his communique in Saigon. Thieu said his government has no designs on Laotian territory or internal politics and "will withdraw completely" at the end of the operation-code-named...
...calls for total withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Indochina by a date to be publicly announced, and for an end to U.S. support for the current Saigon government...
Japan's Kyodo News Service reported from Saigon yesterday that between 4000 and 5000 South Vietnamese troops parachuted into Southern Laos early Monday. Kyodo said that U.S. planes and helicopters were assisting in the operation, but that no American ground combat troops were involved...