Marines Lock in Battle SAIGON (AP) — American Ma- Imy Total Since Last April
Vandals Disrupt Ocean School Transportation SEE STORY BELOW Weather HOME Sunny and cooler today, high THEDAILY 75-80. Fair tonight, low in lower 10s. Tomorrow, mostly sunny, Red Bank, Freehold FINAL high around 80. Outlook Satur- I __ Long Branch day, fair and warm. 7 MONMOUTH COUNTY'S IIOMK NKWSPAPKK I'OK 89 YEARS DIAL 741-0010 VOL. 90, NO. 51 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1967 10c PER COPY PAGE ONE 188 North Viets Reported Slain Marines Lock in Battle SAIGON (AP) — American Ma- imy total since last April. radios and submachine guns. Although the Marines hit hard,!North Vietnamese made ml- rines and some 4,000 freshly Action in the ground war had Although the Marines esti- one company pushed out and1 nor breaches in the battalion's equipped North Vietnamese reg- >een relatively light for about mated that about 4,000 North charged into the exposed flank of|defense before being repulsed, ulars locked in a fierce battle two months until eajly this week, Vietnamese were engaged in the the attacking Reds and rolled it In much of the fighting, the over the blood-stained rice pad- when Communist forces began fight, they identified elements of up, killing 50 of the enemy in North Vietnamese battled from dies of the Que Son valley today showing signs of readiness for re-three units—the 1st, 3d and 21stone sudden surge without losing hamlets well prepared with with 188 Communist soldiers and lewed action in the northern zone regiments of the 2d Infantry Di- a man. trcnchlines and bunkers. 70 Marines reported killed.
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