War In Brief
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) Developments in the Vietnam war recorded by N.Z.P.A.-Reuter include: SAIGON Ten Vietnamese civilians were killed and 14 wounded in a bus shattered by a mine on Saturday north-west of Saigon, an American spokesman said. One Government soldier was also injured in the explosion. SAIGON Guerrillas opened a mortar attack on the base of the United States Ist Air Cavalry Division at An Khe early today and were reported to have hit some of the scores of helicopter parked for the night There was no immediate word on casualties. First reports said high explosive rounds hammered what the cavalrymen call “the golf course”—the world’s largest landing pad that the cavalrymen carved out of the jungles of the central highlands. The attack began at 1 a.m. and lasted for 15 minutes.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 13
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