UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 22, 1968
Thieu increases draft calls; Communists attack in Laos
VIENTIANE, Laos — (UPI) — Strong Communist forces are shelling Attopeu in an apparent attempt to soften government defenses before launching an all-out attack on the important provincial capital in southernmost Laos, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
Col. Thongpan Knocksy said up to 1,000 North Vietnamese troops and Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas already have occupied two nearby villages controlling the main highway to Attopeu.
The attacks were described as part of the continuing Communist campaign to capture communications centers in Laos and open new infiltration routes for North Vietnamese troops and materials into South Vietnam. Communist supplies already flow southward over the maze of jungle tracks called the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Attopeu, about 400 miles southeast of Vientiane, lies near the border of South Vietnam and Cambodia, which Hanoi also is
reported using as an avenue to reinforce its troops fighting in Vietnam.
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SAIGON — (UPI) — President Nguyen Van Thieu announced Thursday a 135,000-man draft call this year would be "carried out urgently" by putting 18- and 19-year-olds in uniform and recalling veterans under 33 with less than five years service.
In a hard-hitting speech over national television, Thieu made a new pledge to erase the "shame" of corruption by establishing a committee for administrative reforms.
The government has been under increasing pressure from U.S. and other quarters to get more young South Vietnamese on the firing lines alongside American teen-agers.
Government corruption on all levels in Vietnam has been a sore spot for American diplomats and military men for years, and many U.S. officials believe the Saigon administration should push its programs more actively in the countryside.
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