THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 APRIL 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993804
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: April 23, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
23 April 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
23 April 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Sink Matak is completing his consultations with
the other members of Cambodia's new supreme politi-
cal council.
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meanwhile, kept up their military pressure on the
Phnom Penh area over the weekend. (Page 1)
Lebanon's President Pranjiyah is trying to rein in
the fedayeen leaders, or possibly persuade them to
move to Cairo. (Page 2)
Pakistan's formal reply to last week's joint India-
Bangladesh statement, together with other reports,
suggests some flexibility on the major issues.
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CAMBODIA
Republican Party leader Sink Matak is complet-
ing his consultations with other members of the
four-man supreme political council on a program of
action for that body when installed.
Under the agreement reached between Pres-
ident Lon NoZ and Matak late last week,
the council will be installed once Matak's
program is ready. Matak appears bent on
becoming the council's dominant member
despite the agreement that each of the
four participants have an equal voice.
The Khmer Communists are keeping up their mil-
itary pressure in the Phnom Penh area. Over the
weekend, the Communists again shelled Takhmau, the
capital's large southern suburb. The COmmunists
also attacked and surrounded two government battal-
ions southeast of Phnom Penh on Route 1.
Some eight miles south of the capital, Khmer
Communist troops are still harassing elements that
withdrew from the village of Siem Reap on Route 2
on April 20. Government reinforcements in Phnom
Penh have
not yet moved.
Farther south, the Communists are shelling and
probing government positions on the perimeter of
the isolated provincial capital at Takeo. Some
Cambodian reinforcements were airlifted into Takeo
yesterday. In the southwest, some fighting is still
going on about eight miles east of Kampot, but no
Communist action against the city itself has been
reported.
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LEBANON FEDAYEEN
President Franjiyah has been trying to control
some aspects of fedayeen activity in the aftermath
of the Israeli raid of April 10 and the attacks on
US-owned petroleum facilities.
Franjiyah demanded of Yasir Arafat that fedayeen
leaders limit their presence and activities to Pal-
estinian refugee camps, and that they end their as-
sociations with Lebanese leftists.
Franjiyah is also urging the fedayeen to trans-
fer their headquarters to Cairo. He told Ambassador
Buffum on Friday that two Egyptian officials have
been cooperating with him in trying to persuade the
fedayeen leadership to move. Franjiyah does not
anticipate .a confrontation between his government
and the fedayeen so long as Arafat maintains control
of the Palestinians.
Sadat is not likely to take on the burden
of the Palestinians' presence without im-
posing considerable restrictions of his
own.
In any event, Lebanon has geographical
advantages over Egypt and will remain at-
tractive to the fedayeen leadership so
long as the government does not effec-
tively deny them Beirut as a base.
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SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan's formal reply to last week's joint
India-Bangladesh statement invites further nego-
tiation. The statement rejects India's right to
impose conditions for the release of the war pris-
oners. It also disclaims any responsibility for
accepting the quarter million Biharis whom Dacca
proposes to expel, but says Pakistan would play its
part in a general solution to the problem.
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NOTES
South Vietnam: Saigon will offer a new peace
proposal at the stalled bilateral talks in Paris
this week not with any
view of success but to demonstrate an effort to
reach agreement with the Provisional Revolutionary
Government by April 27 as called for by the Paris
agreements. The proposal/
has virtually no chance of acceptance. The
PRG has consistently rejected any discussion of the
withdrawal of North Vietnamese troops from the South.
Egypt:
This could
be a reference to the recently arrived Libyan Mi-
rages, now reported in the press. Israel yesterday
announced that it presented the French ambassador
with evidence that the French-supplied planes had
been transferred to Egypt, but Paris subsequently
denied that any proof had been given.
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