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Saigon On Full Ales't
By ALVIN B. WEBB JR.
SAIGON (UPD—South Vietna
mese troops defending Saigon
went on full alert today for a
Communist attack marking the
eighth anniversary of the Viet
Cong's National Liberation
Front (NLF>.
U.S. 852 bombers in seven
flights dumped 2. 5 million
pounds of bombs on a 30,000-
man guerrilla build-up threaten
ing Saigon from the Cambodian
frontier while allied soldiers
killed 58 Reds in the same area.
Announcing the Saigon alert.
South Vietnamese headquarters
called it a “preventative
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The NLF celebrates its eighth
birthday Dec. 10 looking for
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its position at the Paris talks.
Its Liberation Radio urged
widespread attacks to mark the
celebration.
American headquarters said it
knew of no Imminent threat. On
several recent occasions, such
alerts have been called without
attacks materializing, spokes
men explained.
U.S. military sources said,
however, that the U.S. air base
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at Bien Hoa and U.S. Army
headquarters at Long Binh,
north and northeast of tne
capital, went on "yellow alert,"
next to “Red alert” the highest
U.S. military alarm.
At the same time, Navy
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been doubled in the “Parrot’s
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for assaults toward the capital
trom the Cambodian frontier to
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The alert came as U.S.
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nonnced that American combat
deaths for the war had
surpassed 30,000. Sources within
the U.S. command made the
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same disclosure two days ago.
Tlie weekly casualty report
said the 172 Americans who
died last week brought to 30,057
the number of U.S. servicemen
killed in Vietnam since Jan. 1,
1961. The 1,110 wounded brought
tlie wounded figure to 189,269
for the war.
On the U.S. dead, nearly half
of them—l4,2sß—died this year,
tlie statistics showed.
South Vietnamese losses last
week were 150 killed and 811
wounded. The 1,715 Communists
reported killed pushed the
guerrilla death toll for the war
to 422,979 spokesmen said.
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QUIXOTIC MAYOR
ST. LOUIS, MO. (UPD—
Mayor Alfonso J. Cervantes was
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all city employes.
Wednesday ho ordered city
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his office pick up the cards for
their employes and then have
the employes address, stamp
and mail the cards to them
selves.
COULDN'T WAIT
PHILADELPHIA (UPD—Two
gunmen robbed $6,900 from a
Savings and Loan Association
office Wednesday while work
men were installing a camera
to photograph holdups.
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BOOBY TRAPS —An Aussie combat engineer holds his side
arm ready as he and a comrade look for booby traps in a
Viet Cong bunker about 30 miles southeast of Saigon.
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