THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 NOVEMBER 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993604
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 2, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
2 November 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
2.November 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
General Secretary Brezhnev?hOw has.not.appeared in
public for three weeks
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For the first time in a year and a half, Phnom Penh's
land link with its seaport at Kompong Som has come
under Communist pressure. (Page 3)
The South Korean Government is leaving nothing to
chance in planning for the referendum on the new
constitution on 21 November.'. (Page 4)
Political observers in Cairo are becoming increasingly
uneasy over the outlook for stability since the firing
of War Minister Sadiq last week.- (Page 5)
The planned shipments from China to North Vietnam this
month are to be the largest since the mining of the
ports. (Page 6)
The Israelis have moved additional troops and armor
to the Golan Heights. (Page 6)
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General Secretary Brezhnev still has not reap-
peared in public since he received the Shah of Iran
on 11 October.
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CAMBODIA
Phnom Penh's overland route to its seaport at
Kompong Som--Route 4--has come under Communist pres-
sure again. Communist troops attacked two widely
separated government positions on the highway yes-
terday and now control two short stretches of the
road. Government reinforcements have been dispatched
to help clear the sections.
These attacks, apparently mounted by Khmer
Communists, are the first significant mil-
itary activity against Route 4 for a year
and a half. A prolonged closure of this
highway would cause additional serious
supply problems for the Lon Nol government,
since it relies increasingly on the route
for deliveries of imported rice and mili-
tary equipment.
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SOUTH KOREA
Seoul is taking no chances that proposed con-
stitutional changes will fail to receive overwhelm-
ing popular endorsement. President Pak is orches-
trating an intensive propaganda campaign to drum
up support for the draft constitution, which will
go to national referendum on 21 November./
/ ,So far the public has remained
largely indifferent despite the faCt that the pro-
posed constitution. gives the chief executive unlim-
ited tenure,: broad authority-over weakened legis-
lative and judicial -branches:, and considerable lati-.
tude to alter national policy goals.
? Pak has attempted to assuage any domestic con-
cerns by appealing to Korean nationalism. In an-
nouncing the new constitution, he stressed the need
to disregard "foreign" democratic forms and to de-
velop a uniquely Korean system which would satisfy
popular aspirations for unification.
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EGYPT
Observers of the political scene in Cairo are
becoming increasingly uneasy over the outlook for
stability since the removal of War Minister Sadiq
last week. The Saudi ambassador has gone so far as
to warn his king that "the situation in the Egyptian
leadership" is deteriorating rapidly and that "some-
thing" is likely to happen in the next several weeks.
While we-dee no imminent threat to Presi-
dent Sadat's position, we do feel that he
took a serious risk in removing the war
minister and that' the consequences Of
this action have not yet been fully played
out. Sadiq, popular for his anti-Soviet
stand, was one of the most powerful fig-
ures in Egypt, and he now represents. a .
potential rallying point for anti-regime
malcontents.. There are many such malcon-
tents in Egypt today, and frustration
continues in the military and elsewhere
.over Sadat's inability to do anything
? about the protracted "no war - no peace"
relationship with Israel.
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NOTES
North Vietnam: The North Vietnamese commercial
counselor in Peking informed Hanoi last week that
220,000 tons of goods were to be delivered from
China in November. This quantity, nearly all of
which was to move overland, would be the highest
monthly level of deliveries since the mining of
North Vietnamese ports, and nearly 20 percent higher
than the average monthly seaborne shipments to North
Vietnam in 1971. Foodstuffs were to comprise more
than half the total, and petroleum a quarter.
Israel-Syria: The Israelis have moved addi-
tional troops, tanks, armored personnel carriers,
and 175-mm. artillery into the Golan Heights,
They may be
trying, as in September, to intimidate Damascus into
stopping its artillery attacks and curbing fedayeen
activities. A cross-border ground operation involv-
ing armor and infantry (and losses) still seems less
likely than a continuation of air strikes against
Syrian targets, although helicopter-commando raids
might also be undertaken.
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