THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 31 MAY 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977484
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: May 31, 1970

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The government has decided to evacuate the town of Lomphat, one of
its three remaining major outposts in the northeast. Two battalions there
will be sent a few miles north to Labansiek, which lies astride the -,:rin-
cipal road to the South Vietnamese border. ?Lomphat was under heavy attac:4
last nisht, and ?the Cambodian battalions there may have difficulty getting
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In the south, South Vietnamese and Cambodian forces have chased the
Viet Cong-from Prey Veng towmy
The Communists air are harassing &v.:ay Rieng town, and they have destroyee.
a 17rge bridge on the route connecting Svay Rieng with South Vietnam.
actions point.up the fact that, despite AWN operations, the Communists are
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MIDDLE HOT
Military actions along the Arab-Israeli cease-fire lines are con-
tinuing this weekend, with the heavieit activity on the Israeli-Ngyptian
front. Israeli planes hit again at the port of Safaga in the Gulf of
Suez, and ..egyptian raiding
rossed the Sues Canal in the north
to strike at Israeli positions there.
A meeting in Khartoum late last week of Libyan, 475rptian, and Sudanese
leaders %-oPears to have produced nothing but rhetoric and another Arab call
for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. Kasir in hi+peech noted
that any moves of the three countries toward eater unity would have to be
approved by their people. Libyan chief Qadhafi has begun a tour of the
Arab states apparently to encourage greater unity of action against Israel.
Qadhafi's tour and the Khartoum meeting are forerunners of a new meeting
in Cairo of the "confrontation! states -- Jordan. Syria, Iraq, and Egypt --
planned for 5 June.
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SUM! VINTNAM
The central hixhlanas city of Dalat was hit yesterday by a Cotrunist
force believed to be a reinforced local battalion. Small groups of enemy
soldiers attacked a number of South Vietnamese military Positione in and.
around the city and shellea several ?there: Other enemy bands at the same
time occupied a small portion of the redidential area of the city and
took over a Catholic seminary and a school.
The attacks against the military targets were repulsed without great
difficulty. As of last night, however, there still were pockets of enemy
resistance
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In Saigon, anti ?gpvermment agitation still simmers.4 )'l'ore than 1;000
students, using the occasion of the funeral of former chief of state
Phan Xhac Suu aemiededsge, passed out anti?Thieu leaflets and shouted anti?
government slogans. Police finally dispersed them with tear gas. On the
same day there was also a considerably smaller demonstration by disabled
veterans.
A number of militant An. Quang Buddhists have begun a hunger strike
that is to culminate in a march
the presidential palace on 2 June.
The militants intend Mash, demonstration both as an anti?war protest and
a .deMand that the government charter recognieing the rival guoc Tu faction
as the official Buddhist church be revoked. The An Quang leadership, however,
is not united behind the demonstration;
the palace could result in violence.
some fearlthat the march on
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