LOS ALAMOS (USA): Scientists at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory said yesterday [March 9] the newest search tool in the effort to harness the energy of the Hydrogen bomb has passed a major test. They said they were able to use a research device, dubbed “SCYLLAC,” to produce a stream of hot ionised Deuterium gas called plasma. …

This is a very happy occasion. I think the whole of the community in both this country and abroad will be looking forward with anticipation to the results that will come from this device, said Dr Frederic, Project Director. — Agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Vientiane] Laotian troops evacuated their last positions on the south-eastern edge of the Boloven highlands following a heavy attack by North Viet-Namese troops, a Defence Ministry spokesman reported…. Gen Thongphanh Knoksy said 500 Laotian defenders … began evacuating four positions about 62.5 miles south-east of the Mekong river town of Pakse, after being hit by Communist artillery bombardment and rocket shelling. …[A] South Viet-Namese military spokesman claimed in Saigon that five North Viet-Namese Soviet-made tanks … were destroyed….

Published in Dawn, March 11th, 2021