University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 21, 1970
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Kansan Staff Photo by STEVE FRITZ
OBVIOUSLY DISTRESSED about the one-sidedness of Saturday's game with Texas Tech, this future Jayhawk appears to be waiting for his chance to one day help KU win some football games. Sign him up, Pepper!
11 Americans Die in Action
SAIGON (UPI) — Eleven American soldiers were killed and 11 more wounded Sunday when Communist gunners shot down a U.S. helicopter near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and then fired mortar shells at a rescue force, U.S. military sources reported.
It was the heaviest American losses in a single engagement in the Vietnam War in three weeks.
According to the sources, a UH1 "Huey" helicopter was preparing to drop off a six-man Ranger team on a long-range reconnaissance patrol when it was hit by Communist fire six miles west of the Allied base at Gio Linh and one-half mile south of the DMZ separating North and South Vietnam.
the helicopter crashed and was destroyed, the sources said, killing nine of the GIs aboard and wounding one.
U. S. commanders ordered a reaction force of the U.S. 5th Mechanized Division helicoptered into the area. But shortly after the troops hit the ground, the Communists opened fire with 60 and 82mm mortars which killed two more GIs and wounded 10 others, the sources said.
Syrian Forces Enter Jordan To Join Palestinian Civil War
By United Press International
Syrian Army troops spearheaded by a large force of tanks and other armored vehicles swept into northern Jordan along a broad front Sunday to join Palestinian commandos in the civil war against the government of King Hussein, Amman Radio said.
The Jordanian government radio announcement stressed that the second force to cross the border into Jordan within 24
hours was composed of regular Syrian military forces.
UPI correspondent Richard C. Longworth reported from the Syrian border town of Deraa that he saw at least 23 Syrian Army tanks manned by regular troops racing to the border shortly before the Amman Radio announcement.
"Our advanced positions have engaged the aggressive troops and stopped their progress," Amman Radio said in a communique
from the Jordanian military governor, Marshal Habes Al-Majali. "A fierce battle is going on at present."
Only moments before the Amman Radio announcement at 2:20 p.m., the Palestinian radio broadcasting from the Syrian capital of Damascus claimed the guerillas had accomplished a "sweeping victory" Sunday over Jordanian Army units in northern Jordan.
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