THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 APRIL 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992572
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: April 6, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
6 April 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
6 April 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Developments in Pakistan are reported on Page 1.
In Cambodia, the Communists yesterday mounted their
first significant attacks in several months on gov-
ernment troops in the Kompong Cham area northeast
of the capital. (Page 2)
On Page 33 we comment on Allende's gains in Sunday's
municipal election.in Chile.
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PAKISTAN
Pakistani troop reinforcements are arriving by
air inDacca at a. rate of four or five flights--
over 500-men?per day. The army continues to raid
areas near the provincial capital and has comman-
deered a large number of trucks, possibly in order
to move into the countryside on a larger scale.
Reports of the situation in East Pakistan out-
side Dacca remain fragmentary. The Indian press
claims that government, forces have lost control of
Rangpur and are hard pressed at Sylhet, Kushtia
and Dinajpur.
In Dacca the military government is trying to
recruit what local political support it can and has
received assurances of cooperation from a delegation
of politicians from East Pakistani parties that lost
badly to Mujib in the elections last December.
Dacca radio has broadcast .a purported statement by
the leader of this delegation denouncing Indian in-
terference in Pakistani internal affairs.
The Indian press is praising Soviet Presi-
dent Podgorny for asking President Yahya
Khan to halt the bloodshed in East Paki-
stan. The Indian press is also criticiz-
ing the US--"which has a special moral
responsibility because it supplied most
of the military, equipment."
The Ceylonese Government, responding to
Indian and domestic pressures, has an-
nounced that Pakistani military flights
are no longer landing in Ceylon. Although
the statement is technically true, Paki-
stani civilian aircraft Carrying troops
in civilian clothing still appear to be
refueling in Colombo. An impending short-
age of fuel there and in Dacca--due in
part to a refusal by Burma to supply addi-
tional fuel?could limit reinforcement
flights in the future.
President Yahya has made public his reply to
Podgorny's letter in which he urged the USSR to use
its influence to restrict "open and unashamed" In-
dian interference in Pakistan's internal affairs.
Yahya also claimed that his own actions are aimed
at protecting the vast majority of the people of
East Pakistan.
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CAMBODIA
Early yesterday the Communists staged a series
of coordinated mortar and ground attacks on four Cam-
bodian Army positions on the east bank of the Mekong
River, near the town of Tonle Bet. Only one of the
positions fell to the Communists, however. Govern-
ment efforts to support the four outposts with air
and artillery, support were hampered by bad weather.
the attacks
were facilitated by the recent departure of South
Vietnamese troops from the area west and southwest
of Suong,
These attacks are the first of any conse-.
quence directed at Cambodian units in this
area in several-monthso The Communists
for the most part have been preoccupied in
countering South. Vietnamese operations to
the east along Route 7, between Chup and
Snuol. Little fighting has been reported
between the enemy and ARVN units over the
past week, although one sharp engagement
was fought near Snuol on 4 April.
Fighting has occurred also in-the northwest,
where a Cambodian battalion in Battambang lost, five
killed and 24 wounded during an enemy attack on 4
April. In the adjacent province of Pursat, however,
government forces at the town of Leach successfully
repulsed.a Communist harassing attack on- the same
day without taking any casualties
No major fighting has been reported in
Pursat during the current dry season, but
the Communists have maintained a steady
level of harassment, apparently designed
to thwart government efforts to move into
the countryside
In the southwest, most of the government task
force that has been trying to reopen Route 4 east
of the Pich Nil Pass has apparently returned to
Kompong Speu city. The pullback evidently took
place after a number of the officers directing the
operation had been wounded in the past few days.
Five battalions of reinforcements have arrived at
Kompong Speu to spearhead a new drive on Pich Nil.
This is scheduled for 6 April and supposedly will
attempt to link up with another government drive on
the pass from the west.
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CHILE
Allende 's Socialist Party can now claim pre-eminence
in the ruling Popular Unity (UP) coalition by having
outpoZZed its partners in Sunday's municipal elec-
tion. It received 23 percent of the vote, and
elected its candidate to the Senate seat vacated by
President Allende. Its chief rival within the co-
alition, the orthodox Communist Party, polled around
17 percent, little better than its showing in the
1969 congressional election. The Radical Party
dropped to 8 percent, thus further discrediting the
only significant non-Marxist member of the UP.
Altogether, the UP parties won 49.7 percent, well
above the 36.3-percent plurality they won in the
presidential race in September. This achievement,
and particularly the relative gains of the Social-
ists, will increase pressures to accelerate Allende 's
program for transforming Chile into a Socialist state.
Before the election Allende indicated that a good
showing might prompt early moves to change the nature
of the national legislature through constitutional
revisions.?
The opposition Christian Democrats, with 26 percent,
did 'better than many expected, at least partially
bedauee former president Frei finally spoke out on
2 April. Their effectiveness as an opposition force
will continue to be hindered by serious internal di-
visions, however. The two Conservative parties-the
National Party and the small Democratic Radical
Party-surprised observers by dropping substantially
below the vote pulled by their presidential candidate
last fall.
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NOTES
Jordan: Fighting continued yesterday near the
northern cityof Jarash between the Jordanian Army
and about 200 guerrillas from the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine. This is in violation
of the latest truce agreement approved by officials
of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in
Amman, but the agreement evidently has been accepted
by only a part of the PLO leadership. PLO chief
Yasir Arafat, who has been out of the country, has
declared that there is no new truce and that the
fedayeen have no choice but to continue fighting.
Ceylon: A new rash of terrorist activity yes-
terday, including at least 25 attacks on police
stations, patrols, and power and telephone instal-
lations has provoked an intense reaction in Colombo.
A curfew imposed in the capital and some other dis-
tricts last night has now been extended throughout
the country, and Prime Minister Bandaranaike, despite
initial claims to have thwarted an attempted takeover,
has today ordered a callup of military reserves, the
closure of government offices, schools and universi-
ties, and the proscription of at least one extreme
leftist organization. Although the actual threat
from insurgent groups remains unclear, the US Embassy
reports that security seems to be deteriorating.
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