Monday, May 1, 1972
Laotians Retake Key Ridge
VIENTIANE (UPI) --Government troops Friday night recaptured the Skyline Ridge forming a natural defending wall north of the government defense base at Long Cheng, informed Laotian and American sources said Saturday.North Vietnamese forces virtually controlled Skyline Ridge during a major offensive against Long Cheng, 80 miles north of Vientiane, in early March.The sources said government troops dislodged the communists from the ridge after a massive artillery and mortar shelling. They said Communist resistance was light.No casualty reports were given."Laotians Retake Key Ridge", by (UPI), published in the Pacific Stars and Stripes on Monday, May 1, 1972 and reprinted from European and Pacific Stars and Stripes, a Department of Defense publication copyright, 2002 European and Pacific Stars and Stripes.