Thursday, August 10, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven Thursday, August 10, 1972 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Seven New Freshmen! Do you want money, a draft deferment, leadership and management training, self-confidence? If your answer is yes, then inyest 11 hour of your time to find out how you obtain the above by attending the Army ROTC orientation at Room 200 in North Hall at 3:30 p.m. every day. Folklore group partying Sun. In singing and dancing happens to be your thing, you can come on out and do it at Island Park this Sunday. The U of M Folklore Society and its friends are sponsoring an old-fashioned "Play Party" in the park. Lorre Weidlich, the socie- ty's president, describes the ga- thering as "sort of like a square dance, but the dancers s in g their own music, so you don't need a band." Originally, "Play Parties" were secret dancing and singing groups in the South. - FIGHTING NEARS SAIGON N. Viets elude Te 44 PRESENTS the first in a series of discussions on problems of the church and society beginning TONIGHT: THURSDAY, AUG. 10 8 P.M. TOPIC: THE CHURCH & HOMOSEXUALITY JIM TOY will lead a discussion on problems of the alienation of the homosexual from the church. THE ARK 1421 HILL ST. The North Vietnamese f o r c e that ambushed a group of South Vietnamese militia 17 miles east of Saigon Monday, has continued to evade a government ranger group yesterday. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong battalion escaped south af- ter killing 58 militiamen and wounding 55 during two days of fighting in the Binh Son rubber plantations. U. S. military sources report- ed South Vietnamese rangers are hunting for 250 troops who, with their Binh Son ambushes, brought fighting the closest it has yet come to Saigon since the North Vietnamese offensive began more than four months ago. Binh Son is east of Highway 15, which links Saigon with the coas- tal resort of Vung Tau. The rangers were brought in to relieve militia irregulars who first stumbled into the enemy ambushes Monday, then ke p t flinging in men in a futile opera- tion. U.S. and South Vietnamese air- craft were sent into the a r e a to support the ranger group with strafing and bombing attacks. The rangers overran the am- bush site yesterday but the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong had already pulled out and they fail- ed to make any contact, said military sources. Across the border, several Cam- bodian brigades were massed for a counterattack to,-relieve the be- leaguered town of Kompong Tra- bek, 50 miles southeast of Phnom Penh. Maj. Chhang Song, command spokesman, said two regiments of tanks were backing at least two infantry regiments around Kompong Trabek, the town on strategic Highway 1 about 50 mil- es southeast of the capital. "We think this is a major at- tack against the Cambodian re- public," Song told reporters. "We don't think the object of the at- tack is merely to open or widen an infiltration corridor into South Vietnam." He added that the high com- mand thought that the combined Cambodian - South Vietnamese naval base on the Mekong River at Neak Luong, 34 miles south- east of here, was one possible tar- get, Was Phnom Penh, perhaps, en- dangered, a newsman asked. "Yes," Song replied. The high command, w h i c h claims 24 North Vietnamese tanks have been destroyed by aerial attacks around Kompong Trabek, reported that intelli- gence sources have spotted 30 more tanks in the ar e a. The Cambodians have no armored ve- Th is is Newsprint. 40 Hlmist 4Mnis ' i? ..w. rangers hicles capable of fighting t h e Soviet-built T54 tanks. Loss of the control of the east bank of the Meking River would probably knock the Cambodians out of the war, say military ob- servers here. Without the secur- ity afforded by the Cambodian forces on the east bank, Convoys bringing fuel and ammunition supplies by the river would be at the mercy of North Vietnam- ese gunners. The spokesman said fighting at Kompong Trabek was fierce but sporadic and the enemy had not sent his tanks into action during daylight hours. "The situation there is a little bit more stabilized," the major declared. He gave a provisional casualty figure for the Cambodians since the battle began early Sunday as 98 killed, 114 wounded, and at least 240 missing. Most of the dead and missing came from the Cambodian battalion that was al- most wiped out Sunday near the village of Kraing Svay, not far from Kompong Trabek. The spokesman added that hel- icopters had managed to d r op supplies into Kompone Trabek by parachute but that Col. Thach Chan, who commands the troops in the beleaguered town, has still not managed to reach his men. Thach Chan, who was in Phnom Penh when the attack came, will try to parachute into the defense perimeter. In the air war, U.S. F4 Phan- tom jets for the second time in three months knocked out t h e Thanh Hoa Dragon's Jaw Bridge in North Vietnam, the Seventh Air Force reported. The bridge is a vital link in the North Viet- namese supply system. The western span of the 540- foot-long bridge over the Drag- on's Jaw gorge, 80 miles south of Hanoi, was destroyed by Phan- toms May 13 but had been repair- ed with planks and was opera- tional for truck traffic. "The bridge is a vital link be- tween the Supply depots in Han- oi and the demilitarized zone," said an Air Force spokesman. "They can still use ferries, but this slows them down tremend- ously." A6 intruders from the 7th Fleet carrier Saratoga hit the Hon Gai ship repair yard, 22 miles north- east of Haiphong, setting off fires and secondary explosions, said the U.S. Command. 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