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On The Inside Democratic primaries ...p.5 Viewpoint - the dome ...p.8. serving the notre dame - st. mary's community Vol. VI, No. 107 THE OBSERVERTuesday, April 11, 1972 North's losses stall Vietnam drive by Fox Butterfield 1971 New York Times (C) “I was just masses of bodies everywhere,” one Saigon, Tuesday, April--Allied military com American officer in Quangiri said, “The N.V.A. manders said Monday that the North Vietnamese (North Vietnamese Army) really got a bloody nose appeared to have suffered a serious setback in their out there.” drive into Quangiri Province in the northern part of The battles took place at Dongha, Hailang, five South Vietnam. miles southwest of Quangiri City, and at Firebase A count on the battlefield revealed, according the Pedro, 10 miles southwest of Quangiri. reports from the scene by American officers and The South Vietnamese Commander of Northern newsmen, that the communists lost more than 1,000 Military Region 1, Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam, said soldiersand30 tanks in their attacks Sunday west of at his headquarters in Danang today that "’this was the city of Quangiri. the big battle, we have defeated them.” Lam In the wake of those assaults, the only battle I asserted that the North Vietnamese invasion of reported in the area was a brief enemy attack on a Quangiri “has now been stopped.” bridge on the northern outskirts of Quangiri. It was reported repulsed by South Vietnamese rangers and United States Naval gunfire. Intensive artillery fire U.S. officers confident by both sides, however, was said to be continuing. American ofiicers did not make such broad South Vietnamese paratroopers on highway 13 bombing intensified claims, but they said they were confident that the effectively stem recent enemy offensives. communist thrust across the demilitarized zone A large South Vietnamese relief column of tanks, could be stopped if South Vietnamese troops con Exultant government troops displayed two tinued to fight with the same courage and tenacity captured north Vietnamese T;54 tanks in the citadel howitzers and troops dran from the Mekong Delta crept cautiously forward today trying to relieve the that they displayed Sunday. However, North of Hue, Vietnam’s ancient imperial capital. Vietnamese troops of the 324B Division continued The American retaliatory bombing campaign encircled Fifth Division at Anloc, 60 miles north of Saigon, in Binhlong Province. For the first time their shelling and probing attacks on Fire Base ag ain st Hanoi intensified today a s gian t B-52 since the estimated 20,000 North Vietnamese troops Bastogne, the key government defensive position bombers began hitting North Vietnam for the first trrust South from the Cambodian border into guarding the western approaches to Hue. The time since November, 1967, the U.S. command in Saigon command claimed killing 182 North Viet Saigon announced Bihnlong three days ago, there was little reported fighting. namese in fighting around Bastogne Sunday, with The command said the B;52 raids were being the loss of nine South Vietnamese killed and 46 made “in response to the commmunist invasion wounded. across the demilitarized zone.” major cities safe Saboteurs blew up a strategic bridge on Highway Viet Cong attacks decline seven jets lost l, seven miles north of Danang on the central coast yesterday, temporarily stopping supplied heading It also disclosed today that American fighter- There were also two communist attacks reported for the Quangiri front. bombers had made 225 strikes against North Sunday for the first time in coastal Bindinh South Vietnam’s major cities remained free from Vietnam during the first three days of the raids, Province, which had security rating in the country. terrorist attacks again today. No major North from last Thursday through Sunday. Two U.S. Fifty North Vietnamese and ten government troops Viennamese assaults were reported in Kontum Navy A,7 jet fighters have been acknowledged lost were said to have lost their lives. Province in the central highlands as has been ex in the raids over the North with one pilot reported Local Vietcong guerrillas launched 15 more rescued and the other missing. pected by American officials. American advisers who toured the sites of Sun assaults on government militia outposts in the Despite the heaviest fighting in Vietnam since the Mekong Delta Sunday, though the intensity of their day’s intensive North Vietnamese attacks on the 1968 Tet offensive and the step-up in the air war, attacks was said to declining. No casualty figures government’s western flank in Quangiri Province 5,500 additional U.S. troops were withdrawn last were immediately available. week, leaving the total American strength in reported that they had counted more than 1,000 V ietnam a t 90,000. bodies in three locations. continued on page three AL Council creates 'problems procedure' At a recent meeting of the Arts and Letters exploration of more diverse areas as the pass- College Council (March 15), a student- fail option was originally intended to do. introduced proposal to establish a “problems Presently, only30 percent of the student body procedure” within the college passed by a wide are taking advantage of the option, and most of m argin. these earned good grades, according to Arts and The procedure, according to Dan More, one of Letters Dean Frederick J. Crosson. the sponsors, of the proposal, is designed to provide an established procedure for students to get direct action on their ideas, complaints, and need University okay problems concerning the running of the university, the individual college, and Arts and Other members of the council believed the Letters courses. proposal would involve tampering with an ex perimental program, which should not be student final appeal tampered with so soon, and would also involve tampering with the professional relationship The procedure will also provide for a final between student and teacher. appeal by students who feel they have received a The motion was passed by hand vote with14 grade they do not deserve, and have exhausted members in favor,13 opposed and 6 abstaining. all grievance procedures within a particular Because all amendments to the option concern department. the entire university, and not just the college, the The “problems procedure” will be mediated proposal will still have to be endorsed by the by students with faculty participation, and final University Academic Council before it is decisions and recommendations will be brought adopted. to the Dean’s attention. Further details and the It will probably be introduced in UAC before procedure in its entirety will appear in the next the end of the semester. Scholastic, April 14. Freshman director extend pass-fail The Arts and Letters Coucil also unanimously approved in a voice vote a measure to provide a Also at the meeting, the council passed another Dan Moore presents a proposal before the Arts director for the Freshman Seminar Program. student-introduced proposal which calls for an and Letters College Council for solving The approved motion read: amendment to the pass-fail option “to allow a academic problems. “The program would have a coordinator who student to receive a letter grade in a course would also be a member of a department and previously designated pass-fail if the student so The proposal’s sponsors pointed out that the who would, in his capacity as coordinator, an requests prior to two weeks before the last class amendment would only give the student what he swer directly to the Dean of the College of Arts day of the semester.” had already earned and would encourage the and Letters.” 2 the observer T u e s d a y , A p ril 11, 1972 (c) 1972 New York Times Saigon-The North Vietnamese appeared to have suffered a serious on campus today setback in their drive into Quangtri Province, allied military commander all day: celebration of self, said after a battlefield count by American officers and newsmen revealed sym posium on women a t st. th at the C om m unist forces had lost m ore than 1,000 m en and 30 tanks in many's. through out smc attacks on Quangtri city. campus. 12:00 - 4:00 -signups, discussion world Moscow In ceremonies in Washington, London and Moscow, about 50 groups on human sexuality, 100- nations signed a treaty outlawing biological warfare and requiring states fa, psych bldg and 164 lemans. to destroy their stockpiles on the weapons. 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