THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 OCTOBER 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977726
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 8, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
8 October 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
8 October 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
General Torres' takeover as president of Bolivia is
discussed on Page 1.
Jordan. (Page 2)
Egypt IPage 3.
Infiltration to southern South Vietnam and adjacent
Cambodian areas is being resumed. (Page 5)
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BOLIVIA
General Juan Jose Torres is rapidly consoli-
dating his control after declaring himself presi-
dent yesterday. His forces occupied government
installations in La Paz with little resistance
from the forces of General Miranda that had en-
gineered President Ovando's resignation. Miranda's
forces backed down in the face of Torres' consid-
erable strength in the air force and army as well
as among students, workers, and peasants.\
The key to the successful seizure of
power by Torres was the backing he re-
ceived from radical leftist student and
labor leaders. This support was condi-
tioned upon his acceptance of at least
some of their demands for participation
in the government, university autonomy,
wage increases, and free elections within
six months.
During the time that Torres actively par-
ticipated in the Ovando government, he
demonstrated a proclivity for demagogu-
ery. He has remained close to the left-
ists whom Ovando originally appointed to
his cabinet and was apparently one of
the prime movers in the expropriation of
the US-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Company.
There were student-led raids yesterday on sev-
eral US installations in La Paz as well as on the
homes of some pro-Miranda officers. At least two
newspapers were also seized. A new list of demands
has also been presented to Torres by a group of
leftist leaders, including some from the pro-Moscow
and pro-Peking Communist parties. Among these de-
mands are the removal of foreign military missions
and other "imperialist" agencies, abrogation of the
compensation agreement with Gulf, nationalization
of foreign banks and the US-owned Matilde Mines,
and the establishment of diplomatic relations with
"all socialist,countries."
Torres had declared at his swearing-in
ceremony that his government would in-
clude civilians from the groups support-
ing him. Apparently he will need to
grant the leftists' new demands to ensure
continued cooperation by all of these
groups.
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JORDAN
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EGYPT-USSR
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SOUTH VIETNAM
Four new infiltration groups, with a total
strength of about 1,700 troops, were detected in
intercepted North Vietnamese messages on 4 and 5
October. The numerical designations of these
groups indicate that they will come under the au-
thority of the Central Office for South Vietnam
(COSVN), and are destined to operate in southern
South Vietnam or adjacent parts of Cambodia.
This is the first time since Last April
that any infiltration groups of battal-
ion size have been noted heading for the
COSVN area. Gaps in the sequence of num-
bers assigned to these new groups suggest
that as many as 8,000 troops are possibly
scheduled to head southward within the
next several weeks. The Communist resump-
tion of large-scale infiltration bound for
South Vietnam has occurred about a month
earlier than last year.
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NOTE
Chile: Confidence in the economy is ebbing
within the business community. Sales are down
sharply and Chile's largest port, Valparaiso, is
badly congested because importers are not claiming
their merchandise. In addition, a strike at Chile's
largest copper mine has cut back exports. Strict
controls have hampered the heavy demand for foreign
currency exchange, and official foreign monetary
reserves continue at a record high.
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