THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 APRIL 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977421
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: April 25, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
25 April 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
25 April 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Cambodia
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In Paris, hints that Xuan Thuy and Madame Binh, the
Viet Conggs chief delegate, may be going home soon
provide further indication of the declining impor-
tance--at least over the near term--the Vietnamese
Communists seem to attach to the talks as-a.forum
for developing their terms for a settlement in South
Vietnam. (Page 3)
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In the Caribbean area, shelling yesterday by the
Haitian coast guard did little damage either to
Duvalier's palace or to his power position. Trini-
dad's Prime Minister Williams, on the other'hand,
may have suffered irreparable political damage from
concessions he has had to make to ease tensions.
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CAMBODIA
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Meanwhile, some new Viet Cong attacks have been
reported. The government claims that a small Commu-
nist force made a hit-and-run attack on the coastal
resort of Kep, on the Gulf of Siam, on 24 April and
destroyed several government buildings. Some fight-
ing continues to be reported near Takeo town and at
last report the government had still not cleared
Communist forces from the village of Angtassom be-
tween Takeo and Phnom Penh. On the eastern border,
government reinforcements are trying to clear Viet
Cong forces from the area around the town of Mimot,
in Kompong Cham Province, which was hit by South
Vietnamese air strikes on 23 April.
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NORTH VIETNAM
Following Thursday's session of the Paris talks,
Communist spokesmen hinted that both Hanoi delegation
head Xuan Thuy and Viet Cong chief delegate Madame
Binh will soon be going home.
Le Duc Tho, the high-level "adviser" to the
North Vietnamese delegation, left for Hanoi
earlier this month, and Ha Van Lau, the
other principal delegate for the North Viet-
namese, has been absent since mid-February.
Should Thuy and Binh also depart, leaving
no high-level Communist personalities con-
nected with the talks, it would suggest
that Hanoi has decided to shelve the talks--
at least over the near term--as a forum for
promoting Communist terms for a settlement
in South Vietnam.
The Communists might have good reason to do
this. New opportunities for more effective
pressure on the US have developed recently
outside of Vietnam. The Communists may
have concluded that increased military pres-
sure in Laos and Cambodia and the specter
of a wider war is a more effective way of
eroding allied negotiating firmness than
any course presently open to them either in
Paris or South Vietnam.
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NOTES
Haiti: The coast guard mutineers led by the
commandant, Colonel Cayard, have been unable to at-
tract essential army support. Cayard would thus
seem to have little choice but to flee into exile,
unless he is foolhardy enough to attempt a landing.
The sporadic shelling yesterday from Cayard's three
coast guard cutters did little damage to Duvalier's
palace. Equally ineffectual were the strafing at-
tacks on the ships by the government's lone -P-5J--
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Trinidad: Tension in Port of Spain is sub-
siding, The government and the army mutineers seem
close to a settlement of the brief insurrection.
The political costs to Prime Minister Williams of
the events of the past few days have been high, how-
ever. Difficult days are ahead for him.
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