THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 SEPTEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977665
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: September 5, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
5 September 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
5 September 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Ethnic Cambodians may be joining the Communists.
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A Thai Army task force has conducted a successful
counterinsurgency operation. (Page 2)
The South Vietnamese Government may have to get tough
with veterans. (Page 3)
King Husayn continues his efforts to calm both sides
of the government-fedayeen dispute. (Page 4)
The Soviet Army may soon be working with the SA-6, a
new mobile SAM. (Page 5)
The Third Nonaligned Summit closes out the second
decade of nonalignment. (Page 6)
Occidental Oil and the Libyan Government have worked
out an agreement. (Page 8)
Marxist Senator Allende gets more votes than his two
opponents but is dependent on Congress to elect him
president. (Page 8)
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CAMBODIA
villagers
from the Prek Tameak area, northeast of Phnom Penh,
have claimed that ethnic Cambodians made up two
thirds of the enemy force that attacked Prek Tameak
late in August. According to the report, the vil-
lagers were told that the attackers' mission was to
infiltrate close to the capital. Village headmen
gave them food and shelter, and some local youths
allegedly joined the Communists because of their
hostility toward both South Vietnamese and govern-
ment troops, who had engaged in looting and other
abuses.?
At the time of the 'battle for Prek
Tameak the Cambodians apparently believed
that the Communist force was made up pri-
marily of Vietnamese. There was no indi-
cation that
involved
Communist main force
in the i hting,
units were
According to a press account, however, a
Cambodian Army officer said yesterday
that a recent enemy attack "east of Phnom
Penh" was carried out by Cambodian Commu-
nists. He may have been referring to Prek
Tameak. Meanwhile, intercepted government
messages indicate that small groups of
enemy troops are still near Prek Tameak,
and may be planning to strike even closer
to Phnom Penh.
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THAILAND
A Thai Army task force conducted .a successful
counterinsurgency operation against the principal
insurgent stronghold area in northern Nan Province
along the Thai-Lao border during 16-25 August.
It took the insurgents completely by surprise. Four-
teen enemy cadre were captured and several others
killed, without significant loss to government forces.
The operation should boost Thai morale in
a region where the insurgents had enjoyed
consistent tactical successes. Insurgency
continues to spread in the north, however,
and it will take more than one success to
rectify the situation.
In the northeast, the insurgent movement is con-
tinuing to rebound from the losses it suffered two
years ago. The Communists have maintained a level
of activity there that has been markedly higher this
rainy season than last.
Most of this activity has been organiza-
tional rather than military in nature, and
the Communists appear to be concentrating
on strengthening their support bases while
extending their influence into new areas
of the interior.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
Shootings between police and veterans occurred
twice on 3 September. Several were wounded on each
side, as were three US military policemen. Police
forces required assistance from army troops to help
push the veterans out of an abandoned government
building.
The government has been reluctant to adopt
a more forceful stand toward veterans,
even these unusually militant groups, be-
cause it knows veterans generally are
likely to have the sympathy of the army.
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JORDAN
King Husayn's appeal for order Thursday
night seems to have been largely designed
to buy time. As he has often done in times
of crisis in the past, the King adopted a
position of impartiality and placed actual
responsibility for handling the situation
on the shoulders of the cabinet.
.Husayn asked the cabinet to get in touch with
the central committee of the fedayeen, and he di-
rected the government and the fedayeen leaders to
work jointly to "contain the sedition" and ensure
public safety. After the situation is under control,
the cabinet is to implement the agreement of 10 July
between the government and the fedayeen.
That agreement included provisions prohibit-
ing the presence of armed fedayeen or feda-
yeen bases in cities, therefore its enforce-
ment could well be impossible without a
major military operation. The King made
no threats indicating that he might be con-
sidering such a step, but the fact that he
went out of his way to heap praise on the
army and on his chief of staff was probably
intended to serve as a warning to the feda-
yeen.
negotiations
couGd drag on for some time without con-
crete results. In the interim, isolated
incidents probably will occur, and any one
of them could easily get out of hand.
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USSR
The latest satellite photography shows launchers
and radars associated with the SA-6 mobile surface-
to-air missile system at the Korosten army barracks
in the western USSR.
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THE THIRD NONALIGNED SUMMIT
The gathering of nonaligned leaders in
Lusaka on 6-10 September marks the success-
ful culmination of a two-year effort on
the part of Yugoslav President Tito to stir
new interest in the moribund nonaligned
movement. What began more than 20 years
ago under the auspices of Tito and Nehru
as a theoretically noninvolved bloc between
the two superpowers has largely disinte-
grated because of the march of events.
During the two decades some nations have
become more nonaligned than others. At
most, what the nonaligned states now have
in common is a ritualistic opposition to
"imperialism" shrewdly mixed with a desire
to profit from all sides to further their
own nationalism.
The diversity of interests among the non-
aligned states, the growing detente in
East-West relations, and the end of most
colonial rule in Africa took much of the
punch out of nonalignment. Indeed, the
movement appeared to be on the verge of
extinction. However, a number of world
events--the military coup in Greece, the
Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia, the
war in Indochina, and the Middle East
crisis--convinced Tito that nonalignment
should be renewed. He has actively cam-
paigned since 1968 for a third nonaligned
summit conference.
Seventy-four nations have been invited to
attend the Lusaka summit, 46 are known to
have accepted, and the total attending may
be as many as 64. The summit is being
billed as the "largest assembly of heads
of state and government ever."
Most of the resolutions will be hammered
out during the first two days of the meet-
ing which will be conducted at the foreign
minister level. The conference probably
will open with a dispute over the seating
of the rival Cambodian and South Vietnamese
delegations. Supporters on both sides want
to prevent a long, polemical tirade over the
credentials controversy, however, and the
best bet is that the issue will be buried
in committee.
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In an effort to avoid the friction and ten-
sion which marred previous nonaligned con-
ferences, a clearly defined agenda has been
drafted which is broad enough for all par-
ticipants to accept. A number of resolu-
tions undoubtedZy will be published, includ-
ing a denunciation of the war in Indochina,
support for the Palestinian cause, and con-
demnation of the remnants of colonialism
in Africa, and possibly a resolution in
support of Chinese representation in the
UN. There will be a general review of the
international situation with declarations
and discussions on strengthening peace, the
democratization of international reZations,
the safeguarding of national independence,
and disarmament. The conferees also are
expected to give a positive endorsement to
the first 25 years of the United Nations.
Despite the ambitious bill of particulars,
the nonaligned really agree on few major
issues. The finaZ resuZts of the confer-
ence will undoubtedly reflect the lowest
common denominator. There will be a heavy
emphasis on the broadest possible issues,
but a muting of specific problems which
tend to underscore the limitations and the
doubtful future of nonalignment.
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NOTES
Libya: Occidental Oil has worked out a settle-
ment with the Libyan Government that will increase
Occidental's payments to Libya from $1.05 to a min-
imum of $1.20 per barrel. The agreement also will
permit the company to resume production at the
800,000 barrel-per-day level which prevailed before
the cutbacks earlier this year. The new posted price
undoubtedly will now be the minimum price that the
Libyan Government will accept from other oil pro-
ducers.
Chile: Although the count has yet to be offi-
cially verified, and although Congress has to meet
on 24 October and choose between the two front-
runners, the final results of yesterday's presiden-
tial election as released by the government indicate -
that Marxist Senator Salvador Allende has a very good
chance of becoming the next president of Chile. In
his victory speech, Allende disavowed a "spirit of
vengeance" against his opponents, renewed his pledge
to head a "revolutionary government" that would be
the precursor of a "new socialist society," and
presented a plea for domestic peace and tranquility.
In spite of his plea, Allende may find himself the
catalyst that will trigger prolonged turmoil.
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