THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 NOVEMBER 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992998
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 28, 1971

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HW PDB FOR 28 NOVEMBER:
INDIA-PAKISTAN
SKIRMISHES AND ARTILLERY EXCHANGES ARE CONTINUING AT WIDELY
SCATTERED POINTS ALONG THE INDIA-EAST PAKISTANI BORDER.
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THE INDIANS ADMIT TO HAVING CROSSED THE BORDER INTO
DINAJ'FUR ON. 26 NOVEMBER. AT THE SAME TIME,
THE MUKT I BAHINI, ASSISTED BY THE ? INDIAN 50X1
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MANAGED TO STRAIGHTEN ITS MILITARY LINES BY OCCUPYING TWO
,.,GEOGRAPHIC. SALIENT'S AT THE NOETHWESTE'T.RN T IP OF EAST .PAKISTANI:
45 WELL AS A SMALL PORTION OF RAJSHAHI DISTRICT SOUTH OF THE WEST
BENGALI TOWN OF ENGLISH BAZAR. THE PRESS REPORTS CONTINUED CROSS-
BORDER SHELLING IN THE VICINITY OF BAL. URGHAT IN THE WEST DINAJPUR
DISTRICT OF WEST BENGAL, TFE AREA WHERE THE INDIANS ADMIT LAUNCHING
ANOT}R."DEFENSIVE" STRIKE ON THURSDAY. FIGHTING ALSO CONTINUES
AROUND JESSORE, AND REPORTS INDICATE BOTH SIDES WILL -CONTINUE TO
STRUGGLE FOR CONIROL OF THIS STRATEGIC CENTER. IN THE SOUTHEAST
I.-CORNER' OF EAST PAK ISTAN, CLASHES PERSIST IN THE BELONIA SALIENT
(ktiD'r NEAR THE AREY STRONGHOLD OF FENT.
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?THE US CONSULATE iN DACCA REPORT3 THAT TENSION HAS RISEN
:NOTICEABLY IN IKE CITY AS A )i:SULT CF IHE RECENT BORDER CLASHES.
,IWO-SURPRISE-OURFES IN SEk!EN DAYS?AINED AT !F.F.PING THE MUKTI BAHINI
OFF-BALANCE--.AND REPEATED NIGHTLY BCZ':3INGS BY THE GUERRILLAS HAVE
REINFORCED UNCERTAINTY AnNG THE POPULACE. THERE ARE FEWER PEOPLE
AND VEHICLES ON THE STREETS AND THERE IS EVIDENCE OF HOARDING. .
'.ON THE DIPLOMATIC FRONT,. AMBASSADOR KEATING AND SENATOR CHURCH
.MET. WITH INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SWARAN SINGH IN NEW DELHI ON FRIDAY..
SINGH
VOICED OPTIMISM THAT THE PRESENT SITUATION WOULD NOT EVOLVE
?INTO'FULL-SCALE WAR. HE STRESSED, HOWEVER, THAT. PRESIDENT YAHYA.
:MIST -MOVE TOWARD A GENUINE SETTLEMENT WITHE THE BENGAL IS IN ORDER
TO.DEFUSE THE CRISIS, HE INFERRED THAT YAHYA HAD NOT BEEN PRESSED'
WITH SUFFICIENT EARNESTNESS BY FOREIGN POWERS,
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THE%LATEST PRESS RELEASE FROM NEW DELHI. ON 23 NOVEMBER, AN OFFICIAL
INDIAN SPOKESMAN DISCLOSED THAT MRS. GANDHI HAS SENT AN ORAL MESSAGE
TO YANYA, VIA ATL, CALLING FOR THE IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF THE
IMPRISONED BENGALI LEADER, MUJIBUR RAHMAN, AND DEMANDING THAT YAHYA
. ALSO TAKE IMMEDIATE "STEPS" TOWARD A POLITICAL SETTLEMENT OF THE
-EAST PAKISTAN PROBLEM. MRS. GANDHI CfATINUES TO INSIST THAT IT IS
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