THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 APRIL 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993268
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: April 27, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
27 April 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
27 April 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The North Vietnamese are holding out the prospect
of renewed secret talks and the return of politburo
member Le Duc Tho to the Paris negotiations. (
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Heavy fighting has broken out around Quang Tri City,
and there are numerous signs that the North Viet-
namese are preparing for new attacks on the other
two major battlefronts. (Page 3)
Party chief Brezhnev has addressed a conclave of
Soviet military leaders. (Page 4)
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NORTH VIETNAM
The North Vietnamese have responded publicly
to the US decision to resume regular negotiating
sessions in Paris by holding out the prospect of
renewed secret talks. Press accounts State that
chief Hanoi negotiator Xuan Thuy told the French
foreign minister yesterday it was "highly possible"
that Hanoi "politburo member Le Duc Tho would.come
to Paris in the next few days, and that this could
Open the way for private negotiations. In making
the announcement, Thuy apparently made no reference
to the conditions he previously set for renewal of
the secret sessions.
Hanoi's domestic news media have reported that
the regular sessions will-resume, but so far have
avoided any reference to the possibility of Tho's
returning. An editorial in the party's daily news-
paper on 26 April claimedthat setbacks on the bat-
tleIieId and mounting public pressure had forced
the US back to the negotiating table. Radio Hanoi
went to some length to assure its domestic audience
that North Vietnam had given lip none Of its basic
demands to get the talks started again.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
Heavy fighting has broken out around Quang Tri
City with fresh Communist artillery and ground as-
saults against South Vietnamese units in the city.
In addition, there are numerous signs that the North
Vietnamese are getting ready for new attacks on the
other two major battlefronts. Intercepted communica-
tions reflect continuing enemy preparations for
heavier fighting in both Quang Tri and Thua Thien
provinces. North Vietnamese advances have been
slowed in Kontum Province north of the provincial
capital, but Communist forces appear to be regroup-
ing for a fresh round of attacks. The enemy has re-
sumed heavy shellings of An Loc and apparently is
concentrating large numbers of troops and armored
vehicles to the north for a new push against the
city.
An Khe Pass in Binh Dinh Province was cleared
of enemy forces on 26 April by South Korean units,
thereby reopening Route 19, the principal resupply
route into the highland provinces of Kontum and
Pleiku. The road had been closed for two weeks.
Smaller Viet Cong units are continuing to exact
a heavy toll in the countryside. The Communists
now control large sections of the eastern lowlands
in the southern three provinces of Military Region
1, and local South Vietnamese officials are con-
vinced that nothing short of a major military ef-
fort will succeed in restoring government authority
to these formerly pacified areas. Viet Cong units
are driving refugees away from hamlets and resettle-
ment camps formerly controlled by the government
and are attacking bridges and fortified compounds
along many sections of Route 1, which runs along
the coast.
In Chuong Thien Province, in the Mekong Delta,
Vietnamese military officials admit that the Commu-
nists now have established almost complete control
over all of the major communications routes there,
largely without using their main force units.
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USSR
Party chief Brezhnev addressed a conclave in
Moscow of Soviet military leadets. gathered from
across the country for a,neeting last Monday and
Tuesday. According to a domestic news broadcast,
Brezhnev gave a "profound and thorough analysis"
of the USSR's domestic and international situation,
particularly as it affects the Soviet.army. and navy.
Brezhnev's purpose in addressing the meet-
ing, which in other respects'appeared to
be routine, may have been to brief mili-
tary leaders on defense-related issues
to be discussed at the summit. Our rec-
ords indicate it has been five years
since Brezhnev addressed such a meeting.
That was in April 1967, three days after
the death. of Marshal Malinovsky, when
decisions were being made about the ap-
pointment of a new defense minister.
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NOTES
USSR-Cuba:
Fedayeen:
Chile: Communist Party leaders' irritation
with President Allende, while hardly new, has re-
cently reached serious proportionsi
1 The Communists resent Allende's failure
to consult the UP before he appointed an army gen-
eral to the cabinet, although they approve the
general's qualifications. They are galled by the
President's persistent overtures to the extremist
Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) to join
the coalition at the same time that the MIR is chal-
lenging coalition candidates and policies. The
party is also impatient with Allende's delay in
pushing the program for nationalization of industry,
particularly because Communist strategy for extend-
ing the coalition's power puts primary stress on
control of the economy.
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