THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 JANUARY 1973

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993706
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 3, 1973

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The President's Daily Brief
3 January 1973
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
3 January 1973
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
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China wishes to maintain good relations with the US, 25X1
despite the bombing of North Vietnam. (Page 2)
South Vietnam
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The Soviets have published an account of the charges
prospective emigrants must pay to reimburse the state
for their educations. (Page 4)
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CHINA-US
There is fresh evidence that Peking's restrained
reaction to US bombing of North Vietnam's heartland
N47.s due to its overriding interest in preventing
damage to Sino-American relations.
Based on
the New
China News Agency and to Chinese envoys
posted abroad avoided
directly linking the bombing with Sino-
American ties until Chou En-Zai did so in-
formally on 28 December. Chou's remark
almost certainly was made because of height-
ened concern in Peking that the bombing
might imperil an early settlement.
Peking has not yet reacted officially to
the new limitations on US air strikes over
North Vietnam or the scheduled resumption
of the Paris talks. At the US Embassy in
Paris yesterday, however, Chinese diplo-
mats delivered a New Year's greeting to
President Nixon signed by Mao, Chou, and
Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
the Communists
are planning a new round of attacks as the Paris ne-
gotiations resume.
The Communists ? are not now in a position
to mount an offensive anywhere near the
magnitude-of the spring 1972 campaign.
There have been some enemy deployments in
the past few weeks pointing to a possible
increase in offensive operations, but we
would expect to see additional troop move-
ments before the launching of any major,
countrywide effort.
The South Vietnamese are aware that the
Communists would like to make some mili-
tary progress in the near future and are
taking steps to counter anticipated enemy
action.
At a New Year's Eve reception for the diplo-
matic corps, President Thieu restated his objections
to the proposed peace terms and blamed the Commu-
nists for blocking a settlement. Thieu is sending
two emissaries--former foreign minister Tran Van Do
and former ambassador to the US Bui Diem--to
friendly capitals to drum up support for his posi-
tion. Diem told the US Embassy that they leave this
week for Washington to explain Saigon's policies,
particularly to members of Congress. After their
US visit, they plan to travel to Japan, Indonesia,
and Canada.
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? In an unusual interview distributed abroad
by the Novosti press agency, a Soviet deputy min-
ister of internal affairs has expounded on the
regulations for emigration. He said that men over
60, women over 55, and invalids are fully exempt
from the charges that the USSR levies on emigrants
with a college education or its equivalent. He
also claimed that men and women who have been em-
ployed for specified numbers of years are excused
from refunding corresponding portions of their
education costs. Those who have higher degrees
or military postgraduate training must repay the
state 50 percent of their education costs; those
who took correspondence courses, 25 percent; and
the poverty-stricken pay nothing.
The minister also asserted that the fees are
charged without regard for the individual's na-
tionality or destination. He admitted, however,
that the rules do not apply to those departing for
another Communist or a "progressive underdeveloped"
country. In rebutting "bourgeois propaganda"
about obstacles put in the way of Soviet Jews try-
ing to emigrate to Israel, he made the misleading
claim that 95.5 percent of the applicants in 1972
received permission to leave.
Soviet Interior Ministry officials seldom
make public statements containing details
of their. restrictions on emigration. Re-
lease of this interview is a sop to West-
ern opinion, and suggests that Moscow
has revised its regulations in the face
of Western protests. Nothing was said
about restricting future emigration to
those with close relatives abroad, even
though a Soviet Jew claimed in late No-
vember that such a regulation had been
posted.
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planes yesterday, one
of the Syrian pilots ejected after being outma-
neuvered--without any shots being fired. Earlier,
Israel.publicly had claimed that its aircraft had
downed the Syrian MIG-21 in a dogfight.over.Leba7
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