THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 JANUARY 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993067
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 7, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
7 January 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
7 January. 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
North Vietnam has apparently scheduled a "summit"
conference with its other Indochinese allies to
coincide with the President's trip to China.
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Brazil
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UN Secretary
General Waldheim plans no major shake-up in the sec-
retariat. (Page 3)
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INDOCHINA
Sihanouk has told reporters in Peking that he
will go to Hanoi in February to confer with Premier
Pham Van Dong, Laotian Prince Souphanouvong, and Na-
tional Liberation Front leaders from South Vietnam.
This is the second meeting at the "summit"
of leaders of North Vietnam and these
various Indochinese front organizations.
The first took place in April 1970, in
the wake of Sihanouk's overthrow. The
new meeting apparently has been timed by
Hanoi to coincide with the President's
visit to Peking.
The theme of Indochinese solidarity has
persisted in North Vietnamese propaganda
ever since the 1970 meeting, and recent
Hanoi pronouncements have been giving un-
usual emphasis to the common goals of all
three national revolutionary, movements
in Indochina. In addition to trying to
offset the President's trip, Hanoi un-
doubtedly sees a new Indochina "summit"
as a good forum for focusing attention
on the extent of US involvement in Laos
and Cambodia as well as in South Vietnam.
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BRAZIL
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UNITED NATIONS
reports
from the US Mission in New York that Secretary Gen-
eral Waldheim. does not plan a major overhaul of the
secretariat he inherited-from-U Thant. In addition,
Waldheim would prefer not to fill Ralph Bunche's
post with a us citizen, on the grounds that no citi-
zen of a superpower should hold this job, which in-
volves sensitive areas such as peacekeeping.
If Waldheim makes only a few changes, the
chances are good that the "do-nothing" at-
titude which characterized Thant's secre-
tariat will. continue. It will, also most
likely mean the retention of C.V. Narasim-
han, the Secretary General's chef de cab-
inet, who is a frequent thorn in the side
of the US delegation
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NOTE
Laos: North Vietnamese 130-mm. field guns
have continued their nighttime barrages against ir-
regular positions on the ridge overlooking Long
Tieng. There has been little damage, however, and
no major ground attack has materialized. One of
the government high points between Tha Tam Bleung
and Long Tieng was overrun on 5 January by a North
Vietnamese force in company strength. Irregular
troops on Phou Long Mat also report being shelled
by what they believe was a T-34 tank. At least
one such tank was used in the recent enemy offen-
sive on the Plaine des Jarres, but the rough ter-
rain around Long Tieng would make it difficult for
the North Vietnamese to maneuver tanks in the area.
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