THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 AUGUST 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993915
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 28, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
28 August 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
28 August 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Moscow has moved to start a dialogue between CEMA
and the EC. Some of the East Europeans are afraid
that this could result in a tighter CEMA and impede
the growth of bilateral relations with West Euro-
pean countries. (Page 2)
As the next round of talks on European security ap-
proaches, the Romanians have given NATO diplomats -
a preview of proposals designed to underscore Bucha-
rest's independence and to make life difficult for
the Soviets. Among other things, Romania will in-
sist that discussion of military disengagement and
the "inviolability of frontiers" include the Balkans
as well as central Europe. (Page 3)
Khmer and Vietnamese Communist officials are trying
to end sporadic fighting between Khmer insurgent
and Vietnamese Communist forces near the South Viet-
namese. border. Even if the clashes continue, how-
ever, this will not significantly detract from'Com-
munist military capabilities in either Cambodia or
SOuth Vietnam. (Page 4)
Two more Chinese officials who were purged during
the Cultural Revolution have been rehabilitated.
This suggests that the moderates are still in a
strong position as the party congress approaches.
(Page 5)
The Malaysian Prime Minister has told the US ambas-
sador that establishment of relations with China
will probably be delayed until early next year.
(Page 6)
Soviet
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About 1,400 South African police are now helping
the Rhodesians put down insurgents. (Page 7)
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CEMA-EC
? CEMA Secretary General Fadeyev yesterday pro-
posed to Danish officials that CEMA and the EC ap-
point delegations to begin negotiations. The offer
was made in Copenhagen because the Danes chair EC
bodies for the remainder of the year. Danish For-
eign Minister Noergaard told the press that the CEMA
bid will be placed before the EC Council of Minis-
ters at its meeting in Brussels on September 20-21.
Noergaard emphasized that today's talks were "unof-
ficial" and confined to a general exchange of opin-
ions.
Fadeyev acknowledged that the decision to be-
gin contacts with the EC was made at the CEMA min-
isterial meeting in June.
The Poles
are against an in-
stitutionalized closer relationship between CEMA
and the EC. The remarks implied concern that such
a development would lead to a tighter CEMA--that is,
a CEMA even more dominated by the Soviets--and
greater problems for Warsaw's bilateral contacts
with the West.
Such feelings are probably shared by Ro-
mania, which in June became the first So-
viet ally to be extended the EC's system
of generalized tariff preferences. The
initiative for this came from Bucharest,
and the Romanians apparently are more
than willing to reach their own accommoda-
tions with the EC outside the CEMA con-
text. The Soviets have publicly said
that CEMA-EC relations would not preclude
bilateral agreements--those that are
country-to-country rather than country-EC.
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ROMANIA-CSCE
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When the next round of CSCE talks begins in
Geneva on September 18, Romania will present pro-
posals for a non-use of force agreement and the
establishment of a permanent European security
organ.
In setting forth his government's views to a
group of NATO chiefs of mission in Bucharest, a
senior Foreign Ministry-official said that the
Romanian position calls for both disarmament and
disengagement; the latter includes an agreement on
the non-use of nuclear weapons. Bucharest intends
to push for an extension of any disarmament measures
adopted for central Europe to the Balkans.
The Romanians want to include three ele-
ments in the non-use of force document:
notification of maneuvers, notification
of large military movements, and provi-
sions for foreign observers at maneuvers.
None of them is likely to win favor in
Moscow, which wants to keep the military
content of CSCE at a minimum.
Romanian-Soviet differences extend into
other aspects of the European security
talks. (
The Romanian prOposal for a permanent
CSCE organ appears designed to provide
Bucharest with a forum for voicing its
dissent from the Warsaw Pact. Publicly,
however, Romania will probably argue that
such a body is necessary to handle such
matters as the dissemination of informa-
tion on troop movements and maneuvers.
For its part, Moscow was at one time a
champion of a permanent CSCE organ, but
recently has appeared to back off as
Romania took the offensive. The Soviets
now rarely mention the subject.
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CAMBODIA
Khmer and Vietnamese Communist officials are
trying to end sporadic fighting between Khmer insur-
gent and Vietnamese Communist forces near the South
Vietnamese border. The North Vietnamese have told
their units in the area that they should "strictly
observe" a cease-fire agreement worked out earlier
this month, according to a recent intercepted mes-
sage. Other intercepts show that this understand-
ing provides for Vietnamese forces to begin with-
drawals next month toward the South Vietnamese
border. The Khmer Communists have agreed to facil-
itate the withdrawals.
Local truces between the two sides in the
past have quickly broken down, and imple-
mentation of the present arrangement may
likewise prove difficult, even though it
apparently was worked out at higher leveZs.
Clashes between the two sides were still
being reported as late as August 22.
Even if the current agreement breaks down
completely, however, fighting will prob-
ably remain limited to the southern bor-
der area, and will not significantly de-
tract from Communist military capabili-
ties in either Cambodia or South Vietnam.
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CHINA
The New China News Agency has announced that
Ulanfu and Tan Chen-lin, who were purged during the
Cultural Revolution, attended a table-tennis tourna-
ment that began in Peking on August 26. Ulanfu was
an alternate Politburo member and party boss of
Inner Mongolia until 1966. Tan was a full member
of the Politburo and served as the party's agricul-
tural specialist. The announcement did not say what
positions the two men now hold.
Ulanfu and Tan are the two most important
officials to ?be rehabilitated since the
reappearance last April of the party's
former secretary general, Teng Hsiao-ping.
These rehabilitations suggest that the
moderates are still in a strong position
in the party debates that are preceding
the Tenth Party Congress--despite the ap-
parent attacks on moderate policies that
have been appearing in People's Daily.
The paper has criticized the stringent
birth-control regulations introduced
earlier this year, expressed doubts about
Peking's foreign trade policy, and at-
tacked the use of material incentives
and "experts" in the running of factories.
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MALAYSIA CHINA
Prime Minister Razak has told Ambassador Lydman
that the establishment of relations with China will
probably be delayed until early 1974. Talks, which
opened at the UN in June, quickly stalled on the is-
sue of the 200,000 stateless Chinese in Malaysia.
The Malaysians have been unable to get Peking to ac-
cept Malaysian sovereignty over this group.
The Malaysians have given an appearance
of being adamant, but if they want to open
relations they have to accept Peking's
stand that the question of the stateless
Chinese cannot be taken up until after
this is done.
Peking's position regarding Communist in-
surgency in Malaysia does not appear to
be a serious impediment to the establish-
ment of relations. Although Kuala Lumpur
continues to press for a public "hands
?off" statement, Razak admits that he real-
izes Peking cannot go much further than
it has in dissociating itself from the in-
surgency.
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NOTES
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South Africa - Rhodesia: The transfer last
month of 800 South African police to Rhodesia sub-
stantially increases the forces Pretoria has com-
mitted to Rhodesia's counterinsurgency effort and
could go far to relieve the shortage of reservists
that are available to the Smith government. Some
1,400 South African special paramilitary police are
now serving in Rhodesia. The latest reinforcements
may already have aided the Rhodesians in their cur-
rent efforts to search out insurgents across the
border in Mozambique.
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