THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 OCTOBER 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993970
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 15
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 30, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
30 October 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
30 October 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The Middle Eastern war fronts were generally quiet.
Egyptian and Israeli officers will meet today to ne-
gotiate a return of prisoners. Iraqi troops are
leaving Syria. (Page 1)
(Page 3)
Cambodia's exiled Prince Sihanouk has made another
gloomy forecast of his prospects and has said that
the Khmer CommuniSt's are not strong enough to take
Phnom Penh by storm. (Page 4)
On Pages 5 and 6 there are notes on
the Quebec election results,
South' Korea's worries about the coming UN vote, Chi-
nese road building in Laos, and a temporary truce on
Cyprus.
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ARAB STATES - ISRAEL
Except for scattered exchanges of fire near Suez
city, both the Egyptian and Syrian fronts were quiet
yesterday.
Israeli and Egyptian officers are scheduled to
meet today, mainly to discuss an exchange of prison-
ers of war. The failure of Egypt or Syria so far to
reciprocate Israel's accounting of prisoners to the
International Red Cross has caused a hardening of
attitudes in Israel. Several influential Israelis
have told US diplomats in Tel Aviv that their govern-
ment--already under fire for agreeing to a US request
to allow relief supplies to reach the trapped Egyptian
Third Army--will not agree to anything else until the
US persuades the Egyptians and the Soviets to make
tangible concessions on the prisoners.
Although it is not yet a public issue, the Is-
raelis have also served notice that they want an al-
leged Arab blockade of the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb,
at the southern tip of the Gulf of Suez, to be lifted.
Syrian President Asad told his nation yesterday
that the cease-fire had taken him by surprise, but
that he had accepted it after the Soviets and Presi-
dent Sadat guaranteed that Israel would withdraw com-
pletely from all occupied Arab territory. Asad ac-
claimed the cease-fire as a victory for the Arab
side, but threatened to renew the fighting if nego-
tiations--presumably on an Israeli withdrawal--should
be unsuccessful.
Radio Baghdad announced yesterday,
that all Iraqi forces were returning home from Syria
and Egypt.
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At the UN, Secretary General Waldheim is running
into difficulties assembling a 7,000-man international
force. Numerous states have offered troops, but most
of them have been rejected either because they belong
to the Warsaw Pact or NATO, or because they do not
have diplomatic relations with Israel. Waldheim,
therefore, will have to organize a force made up of
small, ill-prepared states such as Panama and Finland,
which will be a time-consuming job. One important
obstacle to funding the force was overcome last night
when the Soviet Union agreed to help pay for the oper-
ation, as long as it is kept under control of the Se-
curity Council.
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USSR-EGYPT
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CAMBODIA
Prince Sihanouk is increasingly gloomy about
his political prospects. In interviews with French
journalists in Peking last week, the Prince implied
that his relations with the Khmer Communist leaders--
which ostensibly had been harmonious since his trip
to Cambodia last March--have soured again.
Sihanouk said again, as he had in September,
that he could not return to Cambodia because of his
differences with the Communists, whom he called
"Stalinists." He also admitted that while his
"united front" with the Communists is necessary for
world opinion, it does not in fact exist.
Sihanouk did not repeat an earlier.statement
that all of the cabinet poets in his Peking-based
"government" would be soon turned, Over to the lead-
ers of the insurgency in Cambodia. . His earlier an-
nouncement, however, seems to be tangible evidence
that Sihanouk's problems with the insurgents have
taken a new turn, involving either Communist demands
for the posts or an attempt by the Prince to interest
them in negotiations;
Sihanouk's admitted inability to move with Com-
munists to negotiations seems central to his pessi-
mism about his political future. He implied that
the Khmer Communists continue to believe that a mil-
itary solution is possible in Cambodia. Sihanouk
claims that neither Peking nor Hanoi is willing to
give the insurgents the necessary logistic support,
and he stated flatly that an attack against Phnom
Penh would fail.
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NOTES
China:
Canada: Premier Bourassa's Liberal Party has
won a landslide victory in the Quebec provincial
elections. On the basis of almost complete returns,
the Liberals have taken at least 91 of the 110 leg-
islative seats, while the separatist Parti Quebecois
won four.
South Korea - UN: Faced with the possibility
of an unfavorable vote in the General Assembly,
Seoul is .considering a new approach to the Korean
question. The South Korean Foreign Minister has
told the US Embassy that his government would now
prefer that the Security Council act on the question
of Korean membership in the UN and the future of the
UN Command. This would avert the possibility of Gen-
eral Assembly endorsement of the North Korean resolu-
tion, which calls for an end to the Command and re-
jects Seoul's concept of dual Korean membership.
The foreign minister urged the US to explore the new
approach with the Chinese, who have been lobbying on
Pyongyang's behalf. Peking has on several occasions
held out the possibility of a compromise, but the
North Koreans thus far have not.
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