THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 JULY 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993866
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 4, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
4 July 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
4 July 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies, except for Romania,
are strengthening their cooperation in several re-
spects, partly to offset any unsettling effects of
detente policy. (Page 1)
Soviet/ \Syria
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The North Vietnamese have built new roadbed segments
in Laos in what appear to be part of a 300-mile high-
way south to the Cambodian border. (Page 3)
Notes on Czechoslovakia-Yugoslavia and Uruguay ap-
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EASTERN EUROPE
Moscow's Warsaw Pact allies--with the conspic-
uous exception of Romania--are strengthening their
cooperation in a number of key areas. These en-
deavors are being pushed by Moscow. The main rea-
sons are:
--concern over the potentially destabilizing
? effect of the current detente policy,
--the need to counter Peking's activist policy
In Europe, and
--a desire to minimize the impact of Romania's
independent behavior.
? In an effort to counter the effects of increased
contacts with the West, the regimes have concluded
a number of "ideological agreements" with each other.
No texts have been published but most seem to be
umbrella accords committing the parties to a broad
interchange of ideological, political, and propaganda
activity. Romania's failure to participate suggests
that the accords also have an anti-Chinese thrust.
The output of anti-Chinese propaganda by most of the
regimes has increased recently.
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North Vietnamese Building New Road
25 5,0 Miles
- Detected segments
- Probable alignment
Quong Khe
Dong Hoi
Demilitarized Zone
Qua g Tri
Se Bang Nieng L
Shoo
sou
Do Nan
THAILAND
VIETNAM
Attope
Kontum
lam Pang
CAMBODIA
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NORTH VIETNAM - LAOS
North Viet-
namese road crews in the past two months have built
a total of 52 miles of segments of new roadbed in
the Lao panhandle.
The Location and design of the segments
suggest that they will be joined in a
300-mile highway from the Mu Gia and Ban
Karai passes in the north to the Cambodian
border. At the present pace, the work
could be completed by next spring or
earlier.
The two-Zane road would be superior to
any previously built by the North Viet-
namese in the Lao panhandle and would
improve Hanoi's capability to move sup-
plies through Laos in all seasons. It
should supplement a road of similar de-
sign and capacity which was recently
built from the North Vietnamese border
through Communist-controlled territory
in the northern portion of South Vietnam,
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Czechoslovakia-Yugoslavia: Czechoslovak party
leader Husak will visit Belgrade in October
The visit
will underline the fact that the strained relations
of the post-1968 period have finally been repaired.
Previously the Yugoslays put off Prague's requests
for a summit by stating that the time was not right.
Now that Polish party chief .Gierek has gone to Bel-
grade and Janos Kadar will do so shortly, Tito ap-
parently feels that he can receive the more orthodox
Husak.
Uruguay: The general strike called to protest
President Bordaberry's dissolution of Congress last
week seems to be weakening since the government dis-
banded the labor confederation. The opposition has
had little success in arousing the generally apa-
thetic Uruguayan public to demand Bordaberry's re-
signation and the election of an assembly to write
anew constitution. The government last night de-
creed a near 30-percent national pay raise in an
effort to mollify workers, but Bordaberry continues
to have difficulties in forming a "council of state"
to replace Congress.
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