THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 AUGUST 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977640
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 23, 1970

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The military situation is quiet. Communist troops have pulled back from
the Prek Tameak area, and government forces are now sweeping the
east bank bank of the Mekong. Apart from desultory shellings _LC 21Compong Thom
city, no enemy attacks have been reported in the countryside for the past
24 hours.
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J3 INT EMBASSY DAO MESSAGE
SUBJ: CAMBODIAN SIT REP AUGUST 22
1. POLITICIZATION OF CAMBODIAN YOUTH.
AKP AUGUST 22 CARRIES SUMMARY OF WORKING SESSION OF
'EDUCATIONAL AND YOUTH OFFICIALS DISCUSSING NECESSITY OF REVAMPING
EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM TO PREPARE YOUTH FOR THE ETERNAL CONFLICT
OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC BLOCS. CONCLUSIONS OF THE MEETING WERE
THAT CAMBODIA MUST FORGET ITS ISOLATION AND PREPARE FOR ENTRY
INTO INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF NATIONS. MOREOVER, CAMBODIA
MUST ADAPT ITSELF RAPIDLY TO THE REAL WORLD. "DELAY WOULD
BE NO:THING LESS THAN AN ACT OF PURE SU IC IDE". MEETING AL SO
RECOMMENDED "PROGRESSIVE POLITICIZATION" OF CAMBODIAN YOUTH By
MODIFYING SCHOLA ST. IC COURSES WITH A VIEW TO DEVELOPING A NATIONAL
CONSCIENCE AND SPIRIT. A IRGRAM TO DEPT FOLLOWS.
? 2. GRENADE INCIDENT IN PHNOM PENH.
EMBA SSY INFORMED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY 9:15 P.M. IN PHNOM
PENH'S DOWNTOWN "TENDERLOIN D ISTR ICT", SEVERAL KHMER KROM OR FANK
SOLDIERS THREW A HAND GRENADE WOUNDING THREE PEOPLE. INCIDENT NOW
UNDER INVESTIGATION BY POLICE WHO STATE SOLDIERS GOT INTO ARGUMENT
! OVER WOMEN AND IN NO WAY WAS TERROR IST ATTACK.
MISSING JOURNALISTS.
ON REPORT FROM PAR IS THAT TWO FRENCH TELEVEISION MEN CAPTURED
IN STEM REAP AREA ARE NOW DEAD, JOURNALISTS' COMMITTEE NOW PLANS
MEETING ON AUGUST 25 TO DRAFT NEW APPEAL TO LUSAKA NONALIGNED
CONFERENCE FOR NEWS OF MISSING COLLEAGUES.
- 4. NEW GOVERNOR FOR KOMPONG SPE U..
AKP FOR AUGUST 22 CARR IES NOTE CONCERNING TRANSFER OF FUNCTION
OF GOVERNOR OF KOM PONG SPE U FROM BRIGADIER GENERAL
SAR HOR TO UNG THAN. SAF? HOR , NEWLY PROMOTED FROM COLONEL TO
BRIGADIER, IS ALSO SECOND IN COMMAND TO GENERAL SO ST HENEZ FER??
NANDEZ , COMMANDER OF SECOND MILITARY REG ION WHICH INCLUDES
KOMPO NG SPEW MR. UNG THAN, ACCORDING TO EMBASSY'S RECORDS, WAS
MOST RECENTLY GOVERNOR OF THE AUTONOMOUS URBAN AREA OF. K IR IROM ?
(BIO DATA WILL BE FORWARDED WHEN AVAILABLE.) CEREMONIES HELD IN
KOMPONG SPEU TOWN AND ATTENDED BY MINISTER OF INTERIOR AND
DEPUTIES FROM REGION.
- 5. PRESS BRIEFING.
- A. BRIEFER STATED THAT SITUATION COUNTRY WIDE WAS QUIET AND
THAT ENEMY FORCES WHO ATTACKED PREK TAMERK HAVE NOW DISPERSED AND
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ARE BEING HARRIED BY FRIENDLY AIR-A.S THEY MAKE THEIR WAY THROUGH
FLOODED COUNTRYSIDE. BRIEFER APOLOGIZED FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO
TAKE JOURNALISTS ON TRIP TO PREK TAMERK AS PROMISED, BUT TRANSPORT
WAS IN SHORT SUPPLY.
DAM BRIEFER SAID BATTALIONS WHO SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT AT PREK
??TAMERK HAVE BEEN RELIEVED BY FRESKTROOPS AND COMMANDER OF 65TH
- BATTALION, THOUGH WOUNDED IN LEGS, WAS EAGER TO REJOIN THE FRAY.
C. ONLY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNED DAILY MORTAR HARASSMENT
OF KOMPONG THOM.
? D. COMMENT: ACTING BRITISH MILITARY ATTACHE TOLD EMBOFF AT
?BRIEFING THAT HE HAD VISITED 122 ARTILLERY UNIT ON PERIMETER OF
?-PHNOM PENH THAT HAD'SUPPORTED ACTION AT PREK TAMERK AND THAT HE,
As FORMER ARTILLERY OFFICER, WAS FAVORABLY IMPRESSED WITH: CONDITION
--OF"MEN, GUNS, AMMUNITION; ADEQUACY OF. PERIMETER DEFENSE BY INFANTRY
UNIT AND PROFESSIONALISM, USE OF PLOTTING BOARDS, GUN CONTROL
AND COMMUNICATIONESWITH GROUND FORWARD
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DURING PAST 24 HOURS THERE WERE NO SIGNIFICANT ATTACKS ALTHOUGH
"HARASSING ACTIONS CONTINUE. FANK -BEGAN A CLEARING OPERATION IN
PREK TAMERK AREA.
A. ON THE MORNING OF AUGUST 22 FANK BEGAN SWEEP OPERATIONS
'To COVER AREA ALONG EAST BANK OF MEKONG RIVER OPPOSITE PHNOM PENH
--AND NORTH TO THE PREK TAMERK AREA. AIR AND NAVY UNITS ARE SUPPORT-
--ING GROUND OPERATION, COMMENT: SOUTHERN LIMIT OF SWEEP IS AREA
r` WHERE MORTAR ROUNDS LANDED TWO DAYS AGO WHICH LED TO PRESS STORIES
UNDERLINING DISTANCE FROM CENTER OF PHNOM PENH. NONE OF PRESS
REPORTS THAT EMBASSY HAS SEEN MENTION FACT THAT MEKONG RIVER IS
APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE WIDE IMMEDIATELY IN FRONT OF CITY. END
-COMMENT.
1- B. ON AUGUST 19 ARMED VILLAGERS FOUGHT APPROXIMATELY 40 KHMER
"ROUGE IN VILLAGE 35 KILOMETERS WEST OF PHNOM PENH. THERE WERE
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