THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 24 DECEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977867
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 24, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
24 December 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
24 December 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The joint Cambodian - South Vietnamese operation
has not met any significant enemy resistance,
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Poland's?new leaders announced some new domestic
policies yesterday that should win them a measure
of popular support. (Page 2)
The military situation in Laos is discussed on
Page 4.
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Cambodia: Current Situation
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CAMBODIA
Elements of the three South Vietnamese airborne
battalions that spearheaded the push west from Kom-
pong Cham city are still moving into areas north of
Route 7 and have reached a point some 11 miles north
of Troeung. The Cambodians have committed some 18
battalions to securing the road between Prey Totung
and Kompong Cham city.
These clearing operations continue to meet
only light enemy resistance. Elements of
the three Vietnamese Communist regiments
that have been west of the Mekong for the
past month are still avoiding contact with
ARVN and Cambodian forces. The VC
Regiment has moved somewhat closer to the
Mekong, but there are no signs that it is
moving to contest the South Vietnamese op-
eration, which is scheduled to be completed
by the end of this month.
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Jozef Cyrankiewicz
Chairman of State Council
(Head of State- President)
POLAND
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Head of State
Premier
Deputy Premier
Deputy Premier
Ministries:
Engineering Industry
Heavy Industry
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Piotr Jaroszewicz
Chairman of Council of Ministers
(Premier)
POLISH GOVERNMENT CHANGES
23 December 1970
OLD
Marian Spychalski
(retires)
Jozef Cyrankiewicz (P)
Piotr Jaroszewicz (P)
(promoted to Premier)
Stanislaw Kociolek (P)
(recalled to full time party work)
Five other deputy premiers retained
Janusz Hrynkiewicz
Francis zek Maim
25 remaining portfolios not affected
(P) - Party politburo member
NEW
Jozef Cyrankiewicz (P)
Piotr Jaroszewicz (P)
Francis zek Maim
(former Minister Heavy Industry)
Jan Mitrega
(retains Ministry of Mining
and Power)
Tadeusz Wrzaszczyk
Wlodzimierz Lejczak
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POLAND
The reshuffle of Poland's governmental
leadership yesterday reflects party boss
Gierek's recognition that a change is
needed in economic and social policies.
The new premier, Piotr Jaroszewicz, who
has been czar of Poland's heavy industry
for the past 18 years, will bring to the
post toughness, an impatience with weak-
ness or failure, and a pragmatic bent.
There are no signs: that foreign or defense
policies will be altered. Gierek and
Jaroszewicz, in their speeches before'
the parliament yesterday, announced some
domestic policies that,are calculated to
win popular support
Gierek, for example, announced that nearly all
food prices would be frozen for the next two years,
and that the cost of durable consumergoods would
be lowered further as soon as production costs go-
down. He kept his promise made last Sunday, and
said $300 million would be assigned, by the govern-
ment to improve the lot of families with the lowest
incomes. Jaroszewicz' announcement that his gov-
ernment-will aim for full normalization of relations
with the Roman Catholic Church will be very favor-
ably received by Poland's peasantry.
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NOTES
Laos: The government's harassing operation
against the Communistlogistic base at Ban Ban-j_s
again moving forward, Two irregular battalions
have reached positions just south of Route 7, some
five miles Southeast of Ban Bant.where they have
successfully countered some stiff opposition,'
Elsewhere in Laos, enemy activity has been
light. Communist forces around Ban:Na in:the north
and the Bolovens Plateau in the south continue to
plan attacks aited at driving government forces
from those areas.
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