UDK World News
By United Press International
Worst accident of the war
'Copter crash kills 34 Allied troops
SAIGON - A twin-turbojet Army helicopter crashed yesterday northeast of Saigon, killing 34 Allied troops and injuring 35 others in the worst accident of the war involving a single chopper.
U. S. military spokesmen, who reported the accident today blamed the crash on mechanical failure. They said an investigation has begun.
The CH47 "Chinook" transport helicopter was ferrying troops when it crashed near
Phuoc Binh, 75 miles northeast of Saigon.
Of the dead, 32 were South Vietnamese troops and two were Americans. There were 34 South Vietnamese and one American injured.
American artillerymen shelled North Vietnamese troops at two points in the Demilitarized Zone DMZ yesterday killing at least 11 communists and destroying 10 bunkers.
U. S. military spokesmen said the two bombardments raised to 100 the number of retaliatory strikes against Communists in
the DMZ since the United States stopped bombing North Vietnam last November.
The U.S. command reported eight Communist shellings overnight yesterday, two against U.S. outposts and the others against government bases and civilian towns. The government reported eight civilians killed and three wounded in an attack on the Mo Bia hamlet 114 miles southwest of the capital.
American B52 bombers flew six raids, three of them against suspected Communist base camps on the northern coast
near Quang Ngai. The others were directed at bunker complexes 45 miles northeast of Saigon.
Allied troops turned up three arms and food caches yesterday the biggest containing 10 tons of rice and located 200 miles northeast of Saigon. American troops operating 18 miles west of Saigon reported killing nine Viet Cong and suffering no casualties in a brief fire fight.
U. S. officers said at least 141 Communists were killed and 29 were captured in a furious assault by a regiment of North Vietnamese on a U.S. outpost near Cambodia. They predicted even heavier fighting in the frontier area northwest of Saigon.
"We're anticipating something big here," said one officer at Camp Carolyn, a U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division outpost, 63 miles northwest of Saigon, that was the target of the massive attack.
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Armed Arab guerrillas battled Lebanese army troops yesterday in the streets of a town in southern Lebanon, only seven miles from the border with Israel. In Beirut, the Lebanese army high command met in urgent session to discuss measures to cope with increasing guerrilla violence.
UPI correspondent Gerry Loughran reported from Beirut that there were no immediate reports of the number of guerrillas and troops involved in
the fighting in Hasbayeh or of casualties.
But reports from southern Lebanon told of almost daily skirmishing between regular army units and guerrillas of the Syrian-inspired organization known as the Am-Saigah Thunderbolt Group. The guerrillas were reported angered because the troops tried to block raids into Israel which Lebanon fears would bring reprisals.
support for the Arab guerrilla organizations. Scores of persons were killed and wounded in clashes between Palestinian Arab refugees and security forces which resulted in the downfall of the government of Premier Karami Rashad two weeks ago.
Lebanon already is in the grip of a political crisis over the question of more aggressive
Army authorities banned newsmen from the area but military sources said the fighting had escalated from isolated incidents into direct confrontations between the army and the guerrillas. They said the Arab guerrillas were firing from rooftops in Hasbayeh on the Lebanese army units.
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Irish premier grants amnesty to prisoners
BELFAST, Northern Ireland Premier James Chichester-Clark yesterday released all jailed Protestant extremist leaders and civil rights demonstrators in a general amnesty he said was aimed at restoring peace to Northern Ireland.
Within an hour of the new premier's general amnesty announcement, militant Protestant leaders Rev. Ian Paisley and Maj. Ronald Bunting were released from Belfast poison. The pair, serving three
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month sentences for disrupting a civil rights demonstration last year, were not due for release until July 20.
As a result of the amnesty, a total of some 133 charges against Roman Catholic civil rights demonstrators and Paisleyite counter-demonstrators arrested since the outbreak of civil disturbances last Oct. 5 will be dropped. The amnesty applies to all offenses except those involving the recent sabotage of power lines and water works in Northern Ireland.
Among civil rights leaders who faced charges were Bernadette Devlin, 22, Northern Ireland's first woman to be elected to the British parliament.
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