THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 24 JULY 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977583
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 24, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
24 July /970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
24 July 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
In his speech yesterday, Nasir publicly accepted the
US peace proposals but indicated doubts about US and
Israeli intentions. (Pagel)
The situation in Cambodia is discussed on Page 2.
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Bonn is considering a substantial contribution as
part of a proposed plan for NATO nations to ease the
cost of US troops in Europe. (Page 4)
At Annex we examine the factors behind current de-
velopments in Bolivia.
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EGYPT
In his revolution anniversary speech yesterday,
President Nasir publicly accepted the US peace pro-
posals but indicated he has doubts concerning US and
Israeli intentions. Nasir declared there was nothing
new in the US proposals; they merely provided for the
implementation of the November 1967 Security Council
resolution which Cairo had already accepted. He said
that the 1967 resolution provides for Israel's total
withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories and
also allows-the Palestinians to obtain their rights
in accordance with other UN resolutions. In any
case, the Egyptian leader said, the US initiative
was "little more than a process of procedures" which
he does not think "will achieve anything new due to
Israel's stand."
Nasir said he is not very optimistic concern-
ing a Middle East settlement and believes that what
has been taken by force can only be regained by
force, but added that he is willing to see if po-
litical action could break the present Arab-Israeli
impasse. Nasir said his doubts about the sincerity
of the US are reinforced by the false US allegations
that Cairo wants war merely for the sake of war,
and that in any event Egypt would continue to build
up its armed forces.
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Cambodia: Current Situation
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CAMBODIA
The government's military training base at
Romeas in KompongChhnang Province was attacked
again. yesterdays The regional military commander
has ordered two battalions--one a Khmer- Krom bat-
talion--to Romeas.froM Kompong Chhnang city.
New enemy attacks have also occurred in several
areas of Kompong Speu Province.
Counterattacking gov-
ernment reinforcements had driven Communist forces
back from SrerKhlong, on Route 4 west of Kompong.
Speu-city. Before withdrawing, the enemy force
damaged a nearby bridge, disrupting truck traffic
on 'Route 4. Enemy troops are still in the area/
The enemy also attacked several government po-
sitions in the northern reaches of Kompong Speu
Province. Elements of a large column of Vietnamese
and Cambodian Communist troops, which had moved
south from Kompong Chhnang Province, attacked one
outpost. and were threatening another northwest of
Kompong Speu city yesterday. r
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at Kirirom apparently are still in contact with
Communist troops.
Lon Nol has told Chargg Rives in Phnom Penh
that he thought his talks with Thai leaders in
Bangkok had gone extremely well. He did not specify
any precise results, however. Restrained public
comments by Thai leaders on their sessions with Lon
Nol suggest Bangkok is still hewing to its cautious
approach to the Cambodian situation./
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NATO
Bonn's National Defense Council agreed on Tues-
day that Germany should urge its allies to come up
with a sizable offer to ease the cost of US troops
in Europe. The proposed burden-sharing program
would be multilateral and within the NATO context,
but the Federal Republic is willing to shoulder half
the cost.
The Germans have talked to the British about
this approach, and both are'now urging "unofficially"
that the US give some 'indication of hew large a con-
tribution would be necessary to blunt congressional'
pressure for troop cuts. The Germans have stressed
that the figure frequently mentioned in the press--
$1 billion--would be out of the question(
//The Germans also recognize that the proposed
funds would be in addition to the balance-of-payments
help involved in the bilateral offset agreements.
Strong domestic opposition .to increases
in defense spending can be expected in
most European NATO countries. Bonn) how-
ever,believes that the multilateral cloak
of the offer might help individual govern-
ments win approval !or the budgetary in-
creases.
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NOTE
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BOLIVIA
The Bolivian Government has moved from one
crisis to another since General Ovando took over
nearly ten months ago. The guerrilla raid last Sun-
day, disagreements between Ovando and his top-mili-
tary leaders, and increasing student and labor un-
rest have combined to pose the latest crisis.
Ovando came to power with the backing of mod-
erate and conservative groups within the military
and the peasant class. He set out to obtain the
support.of the basically leftist student and labor.
sectors by appointing well-known leftists. to- impor-
tant posts in his government. The-expropriation of
the-Bolivian Gulf Corporation, sparked bythe newly
appointed leftists, was a further move in this direc-
tion.
Ovando appealed to students and labor to support
his "nationalist revolution," backing this up by
allowing the reactivation of the old Bolivian Labor
Central and the return to power of the old guard
Marxist labor leadership that had been suppressed
under the Barrientos government. Ovando's efforts,
however, succeeded merely in neutralizing students
and labor for a while, rather than convincing either
, group that he was a true revolutionary.
Within the government itself, Ovando's overtures
toward the left have increasingly alienated moderates
and conservatives in the military. Led by army com-
mander Miranda and Interior Minister Ayoroa, mili-
tary pressure finally succeeded in removing the rec-
ognized leader of the cabinet radicals, Minister of
Mines Quiroga, and the left-leaning armed forces -com-
mander, General Torres.
The loss of the two leading leftists in the gov-
ernment, however, convinced students and labor that
all that remained of Ovando's revolution was the
rhetoric, and has led to open hostility to his gov-
ernment. Labor's objection to Ovando has increased
because of a wage freeze that followed Gulf's-nation-
alization.
Ovando has managed to retain his hold on power
thus far by steering a careful course between the
demands of the left and right and by compromising
when necessary.0
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Current military involvement with the guerrillas
should keep Miranda occupied for a time. The National
Liberation Army (ELN) is an offshoot of Che Guevara's
old guerrilla force which--because of the basically
unstable political situation in Bolivia--poses a
greater threat than its numbers would indicate. The
ELN has a? hard core of perhaps 50 Cuban-trained guer-
rillas. Castro appears to have an almost obsessive
interest in Bolivian guerrilla operations--stemming
probably from Che Guevara's death there--but there
is no evidence of direct Cuban support for the ELN's
recent activities.
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