THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 16 NOVEMBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977800
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 16, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
16 November 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
16 November 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
In Cambodia, Communist forces were active in and
near Kompong Cham city over the weekend. (Page 1)
The Soviets have taken a,tough position on access
tO Berlin on the eve of today's four-power ambassa-
dorial-level meeting. (Page 2)
Soviet
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Current Situation
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Population over 125 per sq. mi.
Communist-controlled area
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CAMBODIA
The Communists launched mortar and rocket bar-
rages, followed up by ground assaults, against the
airfield and various government defenses in and
around Kompong Cham city during the weekend. /
[Vietnamese Communist troops crossed the
Mekong from the east last,week,.boasting that they
would occupTKompong Cham- by the end of November..
To the west of the provincial capital,-enemy
forces also struck at government troops both north/
and south of Route 7, and at two battalions defend-
ing Tang Kouk on Route 6. The Cambodian Government;
meanwhile, has sent.four. paratroop. battalions to
SkOun, at the junction of Routes 6 and 7, with the
mission of helping keep Route 7 open as far as the
town of Troeung.
The troops involved in the forays against,
Kompong, Cham appear to have included major,
elements of the Viet Cong 9th Division,
which had been located east of the city
across the Mekong. Intercepts from the
North Vietnamese 174th Regiment, which has
been responsible for attacks along Routes
6 and 73 reveal that additional harass-
ments are planned in that-arean
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USSR-BERLIN
Friday's working session of four-power advisers
on Berlin bogged down over the issue of access,-par-
ticularly the problem of defining the rolesof the
East and West Germans in working out specific ar-
rangements. The Soviets rejected a Western draft
that would have laid down fairly detailed guidelines-
for-the forthcoming talks between Bonn and Pankow-,
insisting instead that the four powers .should set
only very general guidelines
The Soviet representatives also advised their
US colleagues that today's ambassadorial-level
meet-
ingwOuid "not be unlike" the session of 9 October,
when Soviet Ambassador Abrapimov took an extremely
unyielding stance on all issues.. The Soviets also
contended that the main purpose of a.four-power
agreement should be to stabilize existing access ar-
rangements, not to improve them-.
Soviet tactics suggest that Moscow would
like the coming talks between.Bonn and
Pankow to supplant'?, in effect, the four-
power discussions.
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NOTE
Laos: No significant fighting developed over
the weekend except for sharp skirmishing a few miles
north of Ban Na to the southwest of the Plaine des
Jarres, where Communist guerrillas lost and then re-
gained a tactically important hilltop position.. Com-
munist artillery and mortar attacks have slackened
considerably, but enemy messages continue to refer
to the forward positioning of artillery west of the
Plaine. The intercepts also suggest that the North
Vietnamese intend to press attacks southwest of the
Plaine and are taking measures to remedy.supply.-prob-
lems and to strengthen some of their forward units.
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