THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 FEBRUARY 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993756
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: February 27, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
27 February 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
27 February 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
In Laos the level of fighting continues to decline
amid signs that some North Vietnamese units believe
they will be returning home soon. (Page 1)
Canada has warned it may pull out of the peace-keep-
ing operation in Vietnam if the cease-fire does not
become effective., (Page 2)
Libya
(Page 3)
In Chile, delay in President Allende's plan to pro-
vide large stocks of food to low-income consumers
before next Sunday's congressional elections prob-
ably has lost some votes for the government coali-
tion. (Page 4)
Hard bargaining seems in prospect at the preparatory
talks for a Conference on Security and Cooperation
in Europe which resumed yesterday in Helsinki.
(Page 5)
Annex
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?The level of fighting continues to decline amid
signs that some North Vietnamese units believe they
will be returning home soon.
In the south, an irregular company near Thateng
dispersed after receiving heavy shelling; otherwise
only minor clashes near Khong Sedone and isolated
shellings west of Paksong have marred the cease-fire
during the past two days. Communist troops in the
central panhandle on 25 February attacked agovern-
ment unit along Route 13 north of Thakhek for the
second time in three days and again forced the ir-
regulars to fall back.. Near Muong.Phalane, however,
radio conversations between North Vietnamese units
have mentioned preparations for returning to North
Vietnam.. The troops involved in these intercepts
havetold villagers in the area that some units
would be leaving as soon as Pathet Lao replacements
arrived. In the area of the Plaine des Jarres,
where Communist gunners continued to shell govern-
ment positions in the hills near Xieng Khouangville,
North Vietnamese radio messages suggested that some
units think that they will be leaving this area
also.
No orders to North Vietnamese units to
withdraw have been intercepted, however,
and no major North Vietnamese units have
been detected pulling back toward the
North Vietnamese border.
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CANADA
Foreign Minister Sharp told the International
Conference on Vietnam yesterday that Canada might
pull out of the peace-keeping operation as early as
30 March if the cease-fire does not become effec-
tive. Sharp based his presentation on Canada's
frustrations as a member of the defunct Interna-
tional Control Commission and warned that Canada
would not put up with such a situation this time.
Sharp's statement must be viewed in the
larger context of Prime Minister Trudeau's
difficulty of leading a minority govern-
ment. /
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LIBYA
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CHILE
Socialists and other extremist functionaries
who largely control food distribution have resisted
efforts by Air Force General Bachelet, recently ap-
pointed chief of the distribution program, to organ-
ize an effective national system.
The result has been to delay President,Al-
Zende's plan to provide large stocks of
food to low-income consumers before next
Sunday's congressional elections. The
Socialists' tactics have again stirred up
animosities between them and the Commu-
nists and have probably lost some votes
for the government coalition.
Further pursuing their hard line against the
military, and the Communists, the Socialists, are
blaming the military for the failure of the.supply
system, and., in collaboration with other extremists,
are inciting slum clashes over the allocation of
food.
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NOTES
European Security Conference: Soviet officials
have expressed disappointment over the slow pace of
preparatory talks for a.Conference on Security and
Cooperation in Europe which resumed in Helsinki yes,--
terday after a two-week recess Moscow appears to
have scaleddown its original expectations and.will
probably concentrate on what it regards as the cen-
tral issues--endorsement of the inviolability of
frontiers and approval of .a post-conference consul-
tative organ. The West, on the other hand, wants
the agenda spelled out in some detail before making
commitments on the timing and location of the actual
conference. Hard bargaining now Seems in prospect.
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CANADA
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