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' TRARFUL PRAYERS - _ South Vietnamese woman. prostates herself ah coffin as her husband tearfully prays for the youth, the victim of a Nor ‘ namese artillery. attack on the village of My Chanh, near Hue, S, Viets close on strongho, ’ SAIGON — House-to- ‘| house fighting raged yess ferday in the, provincial capital of ‘Quang Tri, with ~ South Vietnamese troops: , reported. inchink their way ‘toward tHe walled Citadel . still in North Vietnamese hands iy J . One ‘unit a8 only 160 Ayatds ffom: the southeast - en corner: of the fortress gst another airborne ele~ -_ - tent was within a few vid eB -advancing hundred yards of the northeastern comer, & field ‘report said, ve North Vietnamese sol- diers ‘poured fire into the ‘paratroopers from every ruined house, every bunker, every street ‘cornel, As they fell back they directed artillery and mortar fire on their va-. ‘cated positions, The ,bitter, close-range fighting has exacted heavy casualties on-both i US bombers © fe 7 as | more than 300 s ] against highways; supply barges i installations insi Vietnam on, Monde Hanoi claim ed: Arnerican aireratt 9 ‘shot down, There” ee - corifirmation, from. a a command, which F's report downed aj ai: until search and. “Blast hits bs vai 1 near N. Viet