THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 15 JANUARY 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993716
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 15, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
15 January 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
15 January 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
The Soviets have supplied the North Vietnamese with
low-altitude SA-3 surface-to-air missile equipment
for the first time. (Page 1)
Government control of food distribution promises to
become a major election issue in Chile. (Page 2)
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SA-3 Missile Canisters at Dong Dang
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USSR - NORTH VIETNAM
SA-3 surface-
to-air missile equipment in North Vietnam for the
first time. The equipment, spotted at the Dong
Dang transshipment area includes at
least 70 SA-3 missile canisters.
As yet
no SA-3 electronic equipment
have been identified in North
Vietnam suggesting the SA-3 system is
not operational. No SA-3 equipment was
spotted at Dona Dana
indicating that the
weapon has only recently arrived in the
country.
The SA-3 is manufactured only in the USSR.
The Soviet decision to provide SA-3s to
North Vietnam must have been made many
months ago, perhaps in connection with
the trip to Hanoi by Marshal Batitsky,
chief of Soviet air defense forces, in
March 1972, North Vietnamese technicians
would have had to undergo a training pro-
gram, perhaps lasting up to six months,
to learn how to operate the system before
the equipment was delivered.
When it becomes operational, the SA-3
will represent an increased threat to
aircraft flying at low altitudes over
North Vietnam.
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CHILE
The government's announcement last week
that it will take over all wholesale and
most retail sales of basic food commodi-
ties is likely to become a major issue in
the ongoing election campaign. Although
not described as such, in? effect the move
will amount to food rationing.
Opposition politicians are up in arms about
the announcement, some falsely claiming that Allende
is trying to provoke disorders of sufficient magni-
tude that he could cancel the 4 March parliamentary
election. So far, however, the opposition has yet
to surface a legislative program to challenge the
government's new policy.
The military cabinet ministers, speaking as
members of the armed forces, have disassociated
themselves from the partisan political manner in
which the government spokesman announced the plan,
but support the idea of curbing hoarding, specula-
tion, and blackmarketeering as a means of ending
chronic shortages throughout the country.
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NOTES
Malta: Malta has now:agreed to accept the first
rental installment for 1973 (3.5 million pounds) plus
the additional compensation Offered by the NATO al-
lies .to make up for losses that resulted from the
floating of the pound. This assures that the base
agreement will remain in force through the first
quarter of the year, while efforts continue to re-!-
solve the remaining differences.' Most important is
Prime Minister Mintoffis concern over compensation
for possible. future devaluations, but there are also
relatively minor questions such as security clear-
ances for Maltese personnel working on British bases.
iMorocco: The execution Saturday of 11 air force
officers and enlisted men for their leading roles in
the coup attempt last August is expected to increase
enmity, toward King Hassan. Many Moroccans thought
the King would spare the plotters, but he may have
concluded that his position would have been eroded
further by a failure to act harshly. Resentment
over the executions is likely to be strongest among
the 'Berber element of the armed forces. Many Berbers
resent the country's predominately Arabized,political
and social elite,, and a majority,of the pilots in-
volved in last year's plot, as well as many of those
behind the July 1971 plot against Hassan., were Ber-
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Philippines: President Marcos is moving to
create "a so-called "revolutionary government."
he has called for
a meeting on Wednesday of a new national-level citi-
zens' assembly that will include governors, mayors,
heads of local citizens' assemblies, and representa-
tives of civic associations. Marcos may ask this
group--which he will designate as representative of
the will of the people--to suspend Congress, and
perhaps the Supreme Court as well. In the meantime,
he has ordered provincial commanders of the constabu-
lary to be more vigorous in supervising the activi-
ties of local politicians and to be prepared to as-
sume broader political functions.
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