THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 NOVEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977821
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 27, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
27 November 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
27, November 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Viet Cong broadcasts have rejected the possibility
of a stand-still ceasefire and the prolongation of
forthcoming holiday truces. (Page 1)
The military situation in Laos is discussed on Page
Egypt
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Following the suicide on Wednesday, Tokyo will watch
far right groups more closely but the main threat
from this sector remains isolated acts of terror or
self-destruction. (Page 4)
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VI ETNAM
Two Viet Cong broadcasts have attacked Presi-
dent Nixon's proposal for a stand-still cease-fire
and rejected the possibility of prolonging forth-
coming holiday truces. The broadcasts said the Com-
munists "will take rational and sensible decisions"
to allow combatants on both sides to observe Christ-
mas,-New Year, and Lunar New Year holidays, but one
of them?asserted that the Communists "will never ac-
cept" an extended cease-fire until there is an "ap-
propriate political solution" to the war and the US
is willing to withdraw all its troops from Vietnam.
These commentaries appear to be aimed at
waverers in Communist ranks as much as at
allied audiences,.The broadcasts seem to
be part of an effort to disabuse Communist
forces of "peace illusions" they may have
because of President Nixon 's proposals and
other cease-fire talk now being heard in
many parts of South Vietnam One of the
broadcasts observes that a cease-fire might
silence the guns, but "death, imprisonment,
shame and misery" would continue under a
"US-type" cease-fire. The broadcast notes
the troubles the Communists encountered
after the Geneva Agreements in 1954 and
predicts that if the US cease-fire proposal
were accepted thousands of "patriotic com-
patriots" would be imprisoned and massacred
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LAOS: Current Situation
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LAOS
Communist forces attacked and occupied two out-
posts near Ban Na west of the Plaine des Jarres on
25 November. East of Ban Na, intercepted messages
indicate that the North Vietnamese 148th Regiment is
preparing coordinated attacks in the Muong Pang -
Muong Pot area.
Although fighting in the north remains
sporadic, this activity suggests that
"phase two" of the North Vietnamese coun-
teroffensive west of the Plaine, to which
Communist messages have repeatedly referred,
has begun?
Elsewhere in the north, on 24 November a North
Vietnamese force overran five outposts of government
irregulars near Muong Moc. A probing attack-on'
Muong Mpc itself was repulsed, however.
Irregular forces occupied this isolated
area during the past rainy season; and an
enemy effort to retake it was expected.
Communist messages continue to refer to fears
that government troops are planning strikes against'
Communist supply operations east of the Plaine,
Units near Xieng Khouangville and Ban Ban have been
warned to take security precautions.
In the south, Communist reinforcements appear
to be moving southward toward the Bolovens Plateau.
On the plateau's eastern rim, a site 15 miles north-
west of Attopeu has twice changed hands this week,
with a government irregular battalion regaining pos-
session on 25 November. The Communists continue to
probe another site which government forces reoccupied
earlier this week.
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NOTE
Japan: Tokyo--sensitive to rising fears in
Asia ofresurgent Japanese militarism--is likely to
make every effort to downplay, the significance of
the suicide Wednesday of Yukio Mishima, a highly
popular novelist and prominent right-wing leader.
Sato immediately condemned the suicide ?as the act
of a "deranged mind," and this view apparently is
being supported by the media. The government plans
to exercise = greater vigilance against the far right;
but for the foreseeable future the principal threat
from these small groups is likely to remain isolated
acts of terror or self-destruction.
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