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18 THE EVENING SUN Wednesday, January 20, 1971 South Viets Kill 119 Reds In Three Battles In Cambodia By GEORGE ESPEE SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese forces today reported 119 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in battles at three points in Cambodia. A spokesman said 11 South Vietnamese troops were killed end 23 wounded in the three actions Tuesday and today. One battle was south of the Pich Nil pass, on Route 4. Phnom highway to the sea. Cambodian forces were reported locked in sharp fighting at the northern entrance to the pass today.

Associated Press photographer Ghislain Bellonget reported from Highway 4 that the North Vietnamese began firing from bunkers as Cambodian infantrymen tried to clear their flanks before renewing the assault on Pich Nil, 60 miles southwest of the capital and where the road enters the Elephant Mountains. They killed five Cambodians and wounded 40 For the third day, Cobra helicopter gunships attacked suspected North Vietnamese and Viet Cong positions. Cambodian mortars, cannon and machine guns kept up a steady barrage. while the Communist forces replied with small arms fire so as not to reveal the positions of their fortifications on the hillsides. More than 1.000 South Vietnamese marines landed by helicopter nine miles southwest of the pass were reported to have met heavy resistance Tuesday as they attempted to push northward The marines called in Vietnamese air force jets to bomb and strafe the enemy, and their headquarters in Saigon said 32 of the enemy were killed, South Vietnamese casualties were four killed and 10 wounded, A South Vietnamese-Cambodian task force has been trying for a week to reopen the highway to relieve a shortage of gasoline, fuel oil and other imported commodities in Phnom Penh.

Associated Press correspondent Holger Jenyen reported from the Cambodian capital that it was believed the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong still controlled about 10 miles of the 115-mile-long road. The heaviest fighting reported today raged along Route 7, in eastern Cambodia near the town of Kandol, about 60 miles northeast of Phnom Penh. The Saigon government said North Vietnamese forces slammed 300 mortar shells into the night bivouac of a battalion of 400 South Vietnamese troops and followed with a ground attack, triggering a five hour battle. Flare ships illuminated the night skies for artillery blasting the enemy, and a spokesman claimed 56 North Vietnamese were killed. losses were six killed and 12 wounded, the spokesman said.

Southeast of Phnom Penh, 400 South Vietnamese rangers clashed with enemy forces outside the Cambodian town of Kompong Trach, 10 miles from the Vietnamese border. The rangers reported 31 of the enemy killed, along with one South Vietnamese soldier. Another South Vietnamese was wounded. An estimated 500 Cambodian troops were reported battling North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces 20 miles southeast of Phnom Penh today, and bombers were called in to attack the Communists. A spokesman in Phnom Penh said he had no report on casualties.

Meanwhile, mier Lon Nol arrived in Saigon for his first visit to South Vietnam since he seized power last March and he met with President Nguyen Van Thieu. He also was scheduled to meet with U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, commander of U.S.

forces in Vietnam. Nol was expected to stay at least two days. American sources said Bunker will fly to Washington in the first week of February to consult with President Nixon and State Department officials and will stop in Paris to confer with Ambassador David K. E. Bruce, chief of the U.S.

delegation to the Paris peace talks. The sources said trip was a routine one and it was expected to last about 10 days. Deaths Of Noiables SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Arnold T. Nordsieck, 60, physicist who invented the electric vacuum gyroscope, the heart, of a nuclear automatic guidance system, died Monday after a long illness.

He headed the physics department. at General Research Corp HOLLYWOOD, Calif (AP) Kermit Maynard, 73, rodeo star in the 1930s who acted in dozens of silent films, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was a brother of the late cowboy movie star Ken Maynard. ITHACA, N.Y i AP) Ben Light, 59, a former president of the National Collegiate Basketball Association and more recently vice president for development at Ithaca College, died Tuesday. He also had been basketball and golf coach at Ithaca.

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