THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 JANUARY 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993101
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 25, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
25 January 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
25 January 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
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Laotian irregulars ?recaptured the rest of Skyline
Ridge yesterday, but the Communists remain in a
strong position to strike anywhere in the Long Tieng
area. (Page 2)
The Soviet Union and some of its Warsaw Pact allies
may try to inject the issue of Communist China's
role in the Communist world into the Pact summit
meeting that begins today. (Page 3)
The Israelis are making it clear they will not toler-
ate an increase in fedayeen attacks based in Syria.
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LONG TIENG AREA
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LAOS
Yesterday an irregular unit recaptured, without
resistance, the last helicopter landing pad on the
eastern end of Skyline Ridge. Most of the govern-
ment units involved in the week-long struggle for
the ridge now have been pulled back into the Long
Tieng valley, leaving two battalions holding the
ridge. Two fresh irregular battalions moved into
Long Tieng yesterday, and additional reinforcements
are scheduled to follow in the next few days.
The North Vietnamese decision to abandon
the last position suggests that casualties
and supply difficulties had finally inca-
pacitated their units. The North Vietnam-
ese apparently did not choose to throw in
fresh troops from the six other infantry
regiments in the Long Tieng area. Their
strategy may have been to tie down and de-
plete the government's best units--the
four irregular battalions that bore most
of the fighting suffered over 25 percent
casualties?while improving their own
lines of communication and shifting men
and supplies into position for a new as-
sault. With enemy units now deployed
south and west of the valley, new attacks
could be directed either at the ridge or
against Long Tieng itself.
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WARSAW PACT
On the eve of today's political summit meeting
in Prague, several East European states have inten-
sified their propaganda attacks on China. Soviet
criticism of the Chinese has, of course, been run-
ning at a high level since the Indo-Pakistani con-
flict and the UN General Assembly session. Polish
and East German articles in the past week specifi-
cally attack Peking's "splitting activities" in the
socialist world and its "diplomatic maneuvers" in
the Balkans.
Warsaw and Pankow seem to be fronting for
Moscow on this issue, and Bucharest is the
unspecified but obvious target. The Ro-
manians, who have been subjected to this
kind of performance before, will strongly
resist any efforts to push through a reso-
lution condemning Peking and will seek to
confine the meeting to questions of Euro-
pean security.
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ISRAEL-SYRIA
The Israelis are justifying their air strike
yesterday against a ?fedayeen camp north of Daraa
in Syria as retaliation for recently increased fed-
ayeen activity in the Golan Heights. They also
charge that the character of this activity, indicates
cooperation between the Syrian Army and the feda-
yeen, implying that Israeli counteractions may not
spare Syrian Army units and bases.
The increased terrorism in the Golan
Heights area reflects the recent shift of
fedayeen operations from Lebanon to other
areas along the Israeli border. The shift
is the result of Israel's recent raids
into Lebanon and its threat to occupy Leb-
anese territory unZess fedayeen activity
from there ceased.
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NOTES
USSR:
Vietnam:
Egypt.: The. government yesterday took tougher
measures to quell an-upsurge of student .unrest.- Se.7.
curity forces clashed with a small?group of rioting
students in one of Cairo's main squares and used
force to confine-demonstrations.in other areas of
the city. One of the primary causes of this latest.
upsurge apparently was the arrest of a number of
protesters during earlier demonstrations Another
was the government's action in sending. the students
out one'day early on.a scheduled two-week recess.
Thergovernment.hopes that the recess and the stu-
dents' failure to, generate any visible local sup-
port.will cool them down.
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