THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 JUNE 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993842
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 14
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 6, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
6 June 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
6 June 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Peking's comments on Indochina this week stress eco-
nomic development and compliance with the cease-fires
and suggest that offers of aid are likely to be
weighted on the civilian side. (Page 1)
Increased fighting may break out in Smith Vietnam in
the next few days as both sides try to gain advantage
in anticipation of a tightening of the cease-fire.
(Page 2)
The dollar staged a partial recovery late yesterday
after falling to record lows. (Page 4)
Sino-Soviet frictions along the Far Eastern river
boundaries have again risen with the spring thaw.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
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CHINA - NORTH VIETNAM
Chou En-lai's formal remarks at a banquet
honoring Le Duan and Pham Van Dong suggest the
general tack the Chinese are taking with their
high-level North Vietnamese visitors.
Both his statement and a People's Daily edito-
rial on Monday heavily stress TETTETTs. view that
the military phase of the struggles in Vietnam and
Laos has ended. They reiterate the Chinese pledge
to support North Vietnamese reconstruction and
development. They also endorse Communist efforts
"to bring about national concord" in South Vietnam
and demand that Saigon and Washington comply with
the cease-fire accords. The Chinese make much of
their "solidarity" with North Vietnam, and the
People's Daily editorial repeats the Chinese state-
ment that "no force on earth can break this friend-
ship."
Peking's stress on economic development
and compliance with the cease-fires
suggests that Chinese offers of aid are
likely to be weighted on the civilian
side. There have been earlier signs
that Peking was considering cutbacks in
military assistance.
The Chinese statements also show sensi-
tivity to North Vietnamese concern that
Peking may have slighted Hanoi's inter-
ests in its dealings with Washington.
No doubt the Chinese will privately re-
affirm their expressions of friendship.
They are also likely to remind the North
Vietnamese, as their statements strongly
imply, that Peking also has its own in-
terests to tend and that these may not
always mesh with Hanoi's.
Peking's statements are vague with re-
spect to Cambodia, but they suggest this
issue will be high on the agenda.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
Increased fighting may occur in some areas
during the next few days as both sides
jockey for position in anticipation of an
announcement from Paris tightening the
cease-fire agreement. Such fighting prob-
ably would be of limited duration and con-
fined to a few strategic areas over which
neither side has established clear lines
of control.
South Vietnamese forces in the delta and west-
ern highlands already are at work trying to push
Communist units out of key base areas. Another pos-
sible troublespot could develop north of Saigon as
a result of President Thieu's recent order to clear
Route 13 from Chon Thanh to An Loc.
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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY DEVELOPMENTS
After falling to record lows in the Frankfurt,
Zurich, and Brussels exchanges, the dollar staged a
partial recovery late yesterday and closed only
Slightly below Monday's rates. Gold rose to a
record level of $127 in London before backing off
to $126, still up $2.50 from Monday. As a conse-
quence of the recent monetary flurry, Finland and
South Africa have effectively revalued their cur-
rencies.
. Despite the continuing depreciation of the
dollar, there has been little central bank inter-
vention. The high dollar demand in Japan, however,
has forced Tokyo to resume its dollar sales in an
effort to maintain the value of the yen.
The sharp appreciation in the mark has
upset the assumption of the February and
March currency settlements that the yen
would appreciate more than the German
mark in relation to the dollar.
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Tension Increases
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USSR-CHINA
Frictions over the Far Eastern river boundaries
have again increased with this year's spring thaw.
The sharpest dispute concerns the large Soviet-
occupied island at the confluence-of the Amur and
Ussuri rivers which dominates the major Soviet city
of Khabarovsk./
Other sections of the long frontier are rela-
tively quiet, although reports of occasional trou-
ble continue. The Soviet paper Rural Life re-
ported a shooting in the Pamirs that involved
several casualties--only the second time since the
open fighting in 1969 that Moscow has publicized
a border incident,
the impression
from local residents that minor incidents, sometimes
involving gunfire, occur about every seven to ten
days.
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NOTES
USSR:
Malaysia-Philippines: Malaysian and Philippine
negotiators have reached a preliminary understanding
under which Manila will drop its claim to Sabah in
return for a pledge by Malaysia and Indonesia to
"render positive assistance" in ending the Philippine
Muslim insurgency. Ratification may prove difficult,
however. President Marcos may decide he cannot re-
nounce the Sabah claim without losing face. For
their part, the Malaysians still refuse to disavow
the insurgents, claiming this would imply a link
that does not exist.
China-Pakistan:
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