SOUTH VIETNAM: UNITED STATES MILITARY CHIEF LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON -- AS COMMUNIST FORCES CUT HIGHWAY 13.

Record ID: 338304

  • Title: SOUTH VIETNAM: UNITED STATES MILITARY CHIEF LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON -- AS COMMUNIST FORCES CUT HIGHWAY 13.
  • Date: 25th October 1972
  • Summary: 1. SV Abrams shakes hands with General & towards aircraft & boards (3 shots) 0.22 2. GV Armoured car along Highway 13 0.29 3. LV Ditto firing at enemy (2 shots) 0.38 4. GV & SV Troops on field (2 shots) 0.45 5. LV PAN Aircraft bombing enemy positions (3 shots) 1.12 6. SV Troops looking at dead by roadside 1.15 7. GV Refugees fleeing (3 shots) 1.25 8. SV Children wandering along road 1.33 9. GV Army post at roadside 1.38 Initials SGM/0007 SGM/0035 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th November 1972 12:00
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  • Location: Saigon & Highway 13, South Vietnam
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Reuters ID: LVABVGXN36EB3LJDJTNU1GRK335Z
  • Story Text: General Creighton Abrams, commander of the United States forces in South Vietnam. left Saigon for Washington on Monday (23 October). He travelled shortly after Dr. Henry Kissinger, the special adviser to President Nixon who had spent five days in Saigon talking with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.

    General Abrams had helped brief Dr Kissinger on the latest situation, and took part in some of the discussions over a possible truce with North Vietnam and the guerrilla forces in the south.

    But while political commentators everywhere were talking of fresh hopes for peace, in South Vietnam itself the war went on. Several attacks were made on small South Vietnamese outposts, and several ambushes were encountered on Highway 13. An armoured car ran into an ambush between Binh Doung and Ben Cat, and the road was cut.
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