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Laos Communists

Laos Forces Hunt Communists

17.3. 1968

1:29

Various shots with natural sound on film showing US-trained and equipped

soldiers from the Royal Laotian Army advancing through a village and

through bush country, the sounds of a propeller-driven aircraft flying

overhead.

Various shots of a propellor-driven fighter-bomber (possibly a Douglas Skyraider) flying overhead as it delivers a rocket attack on suspected Pathet Lao positions.

Various shots showing the soldiers, armed with M-2 carbines, crossing a stream and entering an abandoned hamlet.

Various shots of small structures in a forest clearing designed as shelters

and a cookhouse and three captured US-made anti-personnel mines left behind

by the Pathet Lao fighters.

Various shots showing the unit''s radioman reading captured Pathet Lao

propaganda portraying US President Lyndon B Johnson as a bloodthirsty

murderer killing ordinary Laotian peasants and sending in US warplanes to

bomb defenceless villages.

A shot of the Royal Laotian Army soldiers resting in the abandoned village.

In a war fought almost entirely in the absence of western journalists and war correspondents, an UPITN cameraman makes a rare film record of CIA-trained Laotian troops in action against Pathet Lao communist guerrillas.

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Vietnam Loc

PM Loc visits Hue

20/03/1968

1:01

Various shots of Premier Nguyen Van Loc, a dark-haired man wearing glasses and accompanied by South Vietnamese army soldiers, walking over to greet survivors of the fierce fighting in Hue during the ''Tet'' offensive.

Various shots showing him shaking hands and talking to the people.

Various shots of the local mayor and Premier Nguyen Van Loc making speeches and local people listening without showing any obvious enthusiasm.

Various shots showing the destruction to homes and to a school caused by the three weeks of fighting in Hue in February 1968.

STORYLINE:

South Vietnam''s prime minister, Nguyen Van Loc, a passing figure on the South Vietnamese political stage, visits the war-torn city of Hue to show concern on behalf of the Saigon regime for the plight of its inhabitants.

F07010

S.Vietnam plague

Authorities respond to plague epidemic in Saigon

31/03/1968

00:01:00

Saigon, South Vietnam - 31/03/1968

1. Various shots showing civilian buses at a busy bus stop (possibly in Vung Tau) by a main road full of military and civilian traffic.

2. Various shots showing a Vietnamese health worker using a machine to spray DDT (?) powder over the tyres of a bus and inside the main passenger door.

3. A shot showing the health worker spraying the inside of the bus.

4. Various shots showing a Vietnamese nurse administering anti-plague injections to a little boy and to other bus passengers.

5. Various shots of a nurse injecting people and people who have received the

injection receiving certificates proving they have been inoculated against the plague from another male health worker.

6. Various shots showing a woman receiving the certificate and heading off in the direction of a bus and Vietnamese civilians boarding a bus.

STORYLINE:

Saigon, South Vietnam - 31/03/1968. The South Vietnamese medical authorities introduce public health measures to combat an outbreak of pneumonic and bubonic plague.