NEW OFFENSIVE IN INDO-CHINA
By Ian Yeats
1972Ian YeatsVietnam and IndochinaPolice and the courtsSoviet Union Read the scan at ETOL (PDF) →Read from the scan by machine and not corrected: headlines and words can be misread, and a caption or advert can run into the text. For anything you quote, read the scan.
GUERRILLAS struck at a town in the Mekong delta, S Vietnam, yesterday, burning down a police compound and a housing estate for military families.
N Vietnamese troops continued their pressure around the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh following their biggest-yet commando and rocket attack earlier in the week. Guerrillas have been hitting targets in neighbouring areas in a co-ordinated offensive.
In an attack in S Cambodia by the N Vietnamese on the command post of an enemy armoured regiment 35 S Vietnamese troops were killed. Rockets destroyed fuel tanks in a S Vietnamese staging area NE of Saigon. Two cargo ships were blown up in a harbour outside Phnom Penh.
TEN STUDENTS on trial in Saigon for opposing the war slashed their wrists in court.vesterday. smeared messages • in. blood the walls. accused. President Nguyen Van Thieu of being a dictator and sang antiwar songs.
The mother of one student said her son only wanted peace and an end to the war. The accused have already spent five months in prison awaiting trial. THE RUSSIAN Orthodox Church's submission to the bureaucracy is denounced in a letter attributed to novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Written from a Christian standpoint and addressed to the Moscow Patriarch, it says that the church has acquiesced in allowing Russian children to be deprived of their right to carry on their fathers' faith.
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