THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 JUNE 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977486
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 1, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
1 June 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
1 June 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Many Cambodians are unhappy about the presence of
South Vietnamese troops in their country. (Page 1)
Israeli forces are active on all fronts. (Page 3)
Gromyko will talk with the French about a number of
things, (Page 4)
Laos continues to be quiet. (Page 5)
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CAMBODIA
?a dispute between.
those who strongly oppose the use of South Vietnam-
ese troops and those who regard it as an unfortunate
necessity of war. The disputants are junior army
officers and civilian bureaucrats. Both factions
are laboring to drive a wedge between Lon Nol and
Matak, but thus far the two leaders have not been
drawn openly into the dispute.
Cambodian nationalists outside government cir-
cles have also been irked by the use of South Viet-
namese troops and Phnom Penh's efforts to establish
close relations with Saigon.
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nationalist group that heretofore has been strongly
behind Lon Nol put up anti-Vietnamese posters in
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tual" elements were less rigid in their opposition
to the use of South Vietnamese troops, they too were
against such troops remaining in Cambodia after 30
June.
Military expediency has caused Lon NoZ to
rely heavily on the South Vietnamese, but
he is also sympathetic to the protests.
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Prey Veng town has been recaptured by South
Vietnamese and Cambodian units., but the Communists
are continuingto hit them with mortar fire. South
Vietnamese troops are sweeping west of the town to-
ward the Mekong River. Farther south, the Commu-
nists continue to harass Svay Rieng town. They have
destroyed a large bridge on the road connecting Svay
Rieng with South Vietnam--thus demonstrating that
they retain significant strength in the Parrot's
Beak area in spite of extensive South Vietnamese op-
erations,
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Cambodia: Current Situation
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The anticipated attack against Kompong Thom
city has not yet materialized, but the Communists
appear to be extending their control over Route 6.
Cambodian officers fear that the Communists may move
south and cut the land access between Phnom Penh and
Kompong Cham city.
that South Vietnamese troopshave
been requested to help secure Route 6.
According to intercepted Cambodian messages,.
several large Cambodian Communist bands have become
active in the countryside west of Phnom Penh. One
group has destroyed bridges on a rural road some 30
miles west of the capitaL
These groups pose no threat to the capital,
but they may be attempting to isolate Phnom
Penh from areas to the west. It is also
possible that they may have begun estab-
lishing lines of communication from their
bases in the foothills of the Cardamom
mountains to the encampments of the Viet-
namese Communist forces in Kompong Thom
Province.
The government may abandon the town of Lomphat,
one of its three remaining major outposts in the
northeast, although heavy allied air strikes have
eased the pressure somewhat. If the two battalions
there pull out, they will be sent north to help de-
fend Labansiek, which lies astride the principal
road to the South Vietnamese border.
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ISRAEL - ARAB STATES
Over the week end, Israel continued its bombing
of Egyptian positions immediately west.of the Canal.
On Friday, Israeli planes hit again at the Egyptian
port of Safaga in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt responded
with strikes, artillery barrages, and two cross-
canal raids which resulted in the deaths of at least
13 Israeli soldiers.. Cairo claims to have shot down
two Israeli planes.
Israeli patrols continued to cross the border
into southern Lebanon., and Israeli artillery began
sporadic shelling into the area to harass fedayeen
concentrations. According to a Press report,-vil-
lagers there have clashed with the commandos in an
effort to prevent them from firing into Israeli set-
tlements. Interior Minister Jumblatt appears to be
softening the government's ban on the carrying of
arms by the Palestinians. In a press statement he
said the ban only applied to those Palestinians who
are unable to prove their membership in a fedayeen
organization.
Jordanian and Israeli artillery engaged in sev-
eral duels along the cease-fire line, but no assess-
ment of damages or casualties, if any, is yet avail-
able. An Israeli infantry patrol claimed it killed
11 Arab guerrillas in the northern Jordan Valley on
28 May, and two Israeli soldiers died in another
clash on 31 May.
On the political front, a conference of Jordan,
Syria, Iraq, Egypt, and possibly Sudan and Libya,
is scheduled for 5 June in Cairo. Libyan chief of
state Qaddafi, now in Baghdad, is continuing his
tour to drum up more unified Arab ? action against
Israel. Palestinian guerrilla leaders are in Cairo
attempting to create a more unified command struc-
ture Within the framework of the Palestinian Liber-
ation Organization. ,
Arab leaders reacted negatively to Mrs. Meir's
"acceptance" of the November 1967 UN Security. Coun-
cil resolution. They regard her speech as a "new
US-Israeli maneuver." In Khartoum, Nasir again
called for complete Israeli withdrawal from the oc-
cupied Arab territories as the only way to peace.
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FRANCE-USSR
Gromyko arrived in Paris today for wide-ranging
discussions with France's highest officials. Al-
though the French have described the visit as "com-
pletely routine," the Quai anticipates discussions
underscoring France's independent attitudes on cur-
rent international topics.
The talks probably will cover European se-
curity, problems of the Middle East and
Southeast Asia, French plans to buy natu-
ral gas from the Soviets, and French con-
sideration of proposals to build a truck
plant in the USSR. Beginning talks on
these topics will lay the groundwork for
more detailed discussions when French
President Pompidou visits the Soviet
Union, probably in the fall.
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NOTE
Laos: No major fighting was reported over the
week end. In the north, yang Pao's drive toward
Ban Na continues to be thwarted by well-entrenched
North Vietnamese troops, but government guerrillas
have been meeting only light resistance as they re-
take positions near the Bouam Long base north of the
Plaine des Jarres. In southern Laos, government
forces have had some success in clearing Communist
elements from the eastern edge of the Bolovens Pla-
teau, but the area is not yet secure.
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