THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 MARCH 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977342
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 11, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
11 March 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Lao
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Cambodian students attacked Vietnamese Communist
embassies today to protest the presence of the Viet
Cong on Cambodian soil and the forthcoming visit of
North Vietnam's Premier. (Page 3)
Soviet
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The pacification program in South Vietnam may be
frustrated in some local areas by isolated Communist
attacks. (Page 6)
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CAMBODIA
Cambodian students sacked and burned both the
North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong's embassies in
Phnom Penh today. Before the attacks began, a rep-
resentative from a quasi-official Cambodian polit-
ical group told US Embassy officials that demonstra-
tions were planned to protest the Viet Cong presence
on Cambodian territory and the forthcoming visit of
North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong.
The students may very well have had the
blessing of some elements of the Cambodian
Governments including Deputy Premier Matak.
Matak has been aggressively anti-Communist
during Prince Sihanouk's extended tour
abroad.
Sihanouk is now in Moscow and plans to
visit Peking before returning to Phnom
Penh. Earlier this week he publicly stated
that most Viet Cong troops had departed
Cambodia and there are no indications that
Sihanouk gave his approval to the students'
attacks.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
The Communists struck hard at three government
outposts on 9-10 March, overrunning one position in
Phu Yen Province on the central coast and another
near Can Tho in the delta. A second outpost in Phu
Yen came under heavy Communist :pressure but held out.
The government's Territorial Forces lost 35 dead and
42 Wounded in the action; there were-no reports of
any enemy losses.. Last week a number of other gov-
ernment outposts in the delta and south of Da Nang
in I Corps were also hit hard.
Attacks such as these cause local setbacks
to the pacification program at a.time when
the general' level of fighting eountrywide
remains low and most of the enemy's big
units remain in rear base areas. This
kind of activity also reminds a signifi-
cant part of the rural population that
the Communists, despite their many prob-
lems, are still a force to reckon with.
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NOTE
North Vietnam: Hanoi has sent about 3,400
troops into the infiltration system so far this
month. This figure is made up of about 1,100 per-.
sonnel in two groups identified in communications
intelligence, and another 2,300 in four groups the
existence of which is implied by the group number-.
ing system. If a steady flow continues through the
end of March, the number of enemy personnel start-
ing south in the first quarter of 1970 will range
between 35,000 and 40,000; during the same period
last year, over 60,000 troops started south.
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