THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 JUNE 1972

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
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• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 5, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
5 June 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
5 June 1972
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
In South Vietnam, government troops have eliminated
most enemy resistance in Kontum City and launched
another drive to open-Route 13 south of An Loc.
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On Page 2 we discuss the prospects for President
Tito's five-day visit to Moscow beginning today.
Romania is the only Warsaw Pact government to be
represented at the conference on the environment
opening today in Stockholm. (Page 3)
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SOUTH VIETNAM
The situation on the three major battlefields
is essentially unchanged. Enemy forces are still
maneuvering for position north and west of Hue.
At Kontum City, government troops have eliminated
most of the pockets of enemy resistance in the city
itself, but a few Communists are still holding on
near the airfield. There has been no significant
Communist pressure at An Loc, and the government
has expanded its defensive perimeter. Saigon's
forces have launched another drive to open Route
13 south of An Loc. At last report the operation
was encountering little resistance.
In Binh Dinh Province, where the Communists
already control the three northern districts, the
enemy on Saturday attacked Phu My, the northern-
most district town still in government hands.
Saigon's forces have turned back the attacks so
far, but the Communists are preparing for further
assaults.
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YUGOSLAVIA-USSR
President Tito has arrived in Moscow for five
days of talks with Soviet leaders.
Tito, of course, will seek further de-
tails on the US-Soviet summit talks,
particularly the SALT agreements and the
implications of a coming period of Euro-
pean detente. Tito will attempt to as-
sess the impact on Yugoslavia's nonaligned
course. He is already trying to rally
nonaligned leaders in the Mediterranean
area to convene ?a conference to promote
their joint interests in European secu-
rity talks. This effort is not appre-
ciated by Moscow, which sees it as an
unwelcome complication. Tito will also
want to discuss the Middle East. He
has long feared that the interests of
small states like Yugoslavia would be
ignored in any great power confrontation
in the area.
On the bilateral plane, the visit should
further strengthen the agreement to down-
play political differences that was reached
during Brezhnev's visit to Belgrade last
fall. Since then, Moscow has cleared the
atmosphere by granting sizable credits to
help bolster, the troubled Yugoslav economy
and has generally avoided raising conten-
tious issues. The tenor of the visit was
presaged by Moscow's lavish praise of Tito
on his 80th birthday last month. Moscow
seems to ?have concluded that a cooperative
policy with Belgrade serves Soviet inter-
ests more effectively than the strong-arm
tactics it has used in the past.
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NOTES
Romania: The only Warsaw Pact government to
be represented at the Stockholm conference on the
environment opening today will be Romania. Bucha-
rest announced it would attend on Thursday, after
it had become clear that the USSR and its other
Eastern European allies would boycott the meeting
in protest against the exclusion of East Germany.
Although they may have preferred not to go it
alone, the Romanians presumably believed their
participation would provide a relatively innocuous
demonstration of their independence.
Cambodia: Voting was heavy in the presidential
election yesterday. There were no reports of sig-
nificant Communist military actions aimed at dis-
rupting the balloting. Provisional results an-
nounced by the Information Ministry today give
President Lon Nol 57 percent of the votes cast.
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