THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 31 MARCH 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977377
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: March 31, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
31 March 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
31 March 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The new Cambodian Government has requested interna-
tional support against external threats. (Page 1)
In Laos, government forces have made some progress
in the seesaw battle for control of the Long Tieng
area. (Page 2)
Recent satellite photography has uncovered a new
surface-to-surface missile launch site in Communist
China. (Page 3)
The Ansar sect's rebellion against the Sudanese Gov-
ernment is spreading. (page 4)
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CAMBODIA
Yesterday Prime Minister Lon Nol publicly ap-
pealed to the United Nations for an observer team
to verify Communist border violations. Nol also
indicated that he may eventually ask friendly, coun-
tries, including the US, for military materiel. On
the same day the Philippine ambassador in Phnom Penh,
acting as an intermediary for the Cambodian Govern-
ment, asked Charge Rives if the US would jam Commu-
nist radio broadcasts that relay Sihanouk's appeals
for support, or provide Phnom Penh with the gear to
do so itself.
The government seems anxious to enlist in-
ternational support to meet what it con-
siders a growing Communist threat. To
dramatize its plight Phnom Penh claims
that sizable numbers of Vietnamese Commu-
nist troops have made deep penetrations
into Cambodian territory. There is no
evidence that these incursions have taken
place.
There are reports of Communist attacks against
Cambodian border positions, but these raids merely
reflect the Communists' interest in strengthening
their hold over sanctuary areas. Some areas of the
border are still quiet, with little or no Communist
offensive activity reported.
There have been no new antigovernment demonstra-
tions in major provincial towns. Western correspond-
ents have encountered some bands of machete-wielding
Sihanouk partisans on several main roads south of
Phnom Penh, however.
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LAOS
North Vietnamese troops just outside Sam Thong
have withdrawn several miles to the northeast in the
face of a government? sweep operation. The village
is now in the hands of the government, and its troops
are moving against the last remaining enemy position
in the Sam Thong area, about one mile to the east.
Recent government advances have boosted
troop morale, but yang Pao's forces still
have a long way to go before the approaches
to Long Tieng can be considered secure.
There are some 3,000 North Vietnamese troops
operating in the area, and additional enemy
reinforcements should arrive in the area in
the next few days.
Improving weather conditions have aided
heavy air strikes against enemy positions,
but so far government efforts to reoccupy
territory northeast of Long Tieng have been
strongly rebuffed. Yesterday, for examples
government guerrillas again failed to push
a well-entrenched North Vietnamese force
off the high ground near Tha Tam Bleung.
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COMMUNIST CHINA
The first surface-to-surface missile launch
site to be identified in China outside the Shuang-
cheng-tzu missile test center has shown up in satel-
lite photography The site is located
near Wu-chai, about 225 miles southwest of Peking
and approximately 600 miles east of the missile test
center. It consists of a single soft launch pad with
a small support area nearby and appears similar to
the two MRBM launch complexes at Shuang-cheng-tzu.
The photography also disclosed-several excava-
tions within several miles of the site which may be-
come new launch sites or support:facilities for the
existing site. No equipment was visible, but a '
search is being made of earlier photography for fur-
ther evidence of the site's status.
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SUDAN: Internal Conflict Spreads
(Egypt)
Port Sudan
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SUDAN
The struggle between the Ansar sect and the
government widened Easter morning with the eruption
of civil strife in the Khartoum-Omdurman area.
Around Omdurman Sunday, it took reinforced army units
eight hours to subdue the Imam's supporters.
This sharp resistance may encourage Ansar
sympathizers concentrated in central and
western Sudan to move against local army
units.
The Ansar Imam and his followers are still hold-
ing out against army units from their tribal redoubt
at Aba Island, and this is where the government faces
its severest test.
The Numayri regime is still pondering its
next move against Aba Island. Government
tanks and fighter aircraft are available,
but Khartoum's uncertainty about the cost
of taking the stronghold has thus far fore-
stalled decisive action. Numayri's latest
public statement on the situation merely
threatened the Imam with force if "warnings
went unheeded."
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