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(CHIPHOU, CAMBODIA)-VIET CONG FORCES APE REPORTED TODAY TO HAVE
ATTACKED THE CADODIAN TOWN OF CHIPI4OU, TEN MILES FROM THE SOUTH
VIETNAMESE BORDER. CAMBODIAN MI LITANY OFFICIALS SAY THE ATTACKERS
WERE DRIVEN BACK. SIX CAMBODIAN SOLDIERS AND 30 OF THE VIET
CONG ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED.
AS THE VIET CONG WITHDREW, WARPLANES WERE SEEN ATTACKING COMMUNIST
POSITIONS NEAR THE BORDER. THE PLANES WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE
BEEN FROM THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE AIR FORCE. THERE WERE OTHER REPORTS,
OFFICIALLY DENIED IN SAIGON, THAT SOUTH VIETNAMESE TROOPS CROSSED
INTO CAMBODIA A FEW MILES TO T{HE.SOUTHEAST OF CH IPHO U.
(SAIGON)--THE U-S COIKNAND IN VIETNAN SAYS TWO MORE AMERICAN
PLANES WERE SHOT DOWN OVER LAOS YESTERDAY. ONE PILOT WAS KILI.ED,
THE OTHER RESCUED. THE CRASHES OCCURRED IN THE PLAIN OF JARS
AND NEAR THE HO CHI MINH TRAIL IN SOUTHERN LAOS.
MEANWHILE, U-S PILOTS REPORT THE SITUATION AT THE DAK SEANG
SPECIAL FORCES CAMP NEAR LAOS IS CRITICAL. THE CAMP HAS BEEN
UNDER SEIGE SEVEN DAYS. SOUTH VIETNAM SAYS '96 OF THE ENEMY
WERE KILLED IN FIGHTING AROUND THE BASE YESTERDAY BUT THEPE ARE
DOUBTS ABOUT THE ACCURACY OF THIS REPORT.
ELSEWHERE IN VIETNAM, FIVE A"'RICANS ARE REPORTED WOUNDED IN
3E SHELLING ATTACKS.
(SAIGON)--SOME 50 DISABLED SOUTH VIETNAMESE WAR VETERANS CLASHED
TWICE WITH POLICE TODAY IN SAIGON. THE FIRST BATTLE, ON A BOULEVARD
LEADING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, LASTED MO MINUTES. THE VETERANS
CHARGED POLICE LINES, USING WHEELCVAIPS AS BATTERING RAMS.
THEY LATER MARCHED TO THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, WHERE THEY WERE
DRIVEN BACK BY TEAR GAS. THE GAS SPREAD INTO STORES, OFFICES
AND RESTAURANTS. THE FIGHTING CONTINUED FOR 45 MINUTES, WITH
THE VETERANS AND THEIR STUDENT SUPPORTERS THROWING ROCKS AND
IDTTLES AT POLICE. THE- VETERANS ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THEIR
HOUSING, MEDICAL CARE AND ALLOTMENTS.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Updates in Vietnam War], script, April 7, 1970, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1267883/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.