THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 APRIL 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977399
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: April 13, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
13 April 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
13 April 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Weekend skirmishing in Laos centered on the govern-
ment guerrilla base at Sam Thong, a few miles to the
northwest of Long Tieng. (Page 1)
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In the Soviet,Union,two veteran regional party
bosses-have been reassigned to. jobs in Moscow deal-
ing with economics and technology. (Page 3)
Vietnamese Communist forces are keeping up the pres-
:::sure in two Cambodian border provinces. (Page 4)
South Vietnamese veteran and student agitation has
tapered off. (Page 4)
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LAOS
In the most significant ground action over the
weekend, North Vietnamese forces launched an unsuc-
cessful ground assault against the government base
at Sam Thong early yesterday morning. This attack,
the enemy's second major attempt to overrun the base
within a week, proved costly to both sides--about 30
Communist attackers were killed,_as were 15 govern-
ment defenders. The government has moved reinforce-
ments into the camp and is still holding all its po-
sitions, but late reports indicate enemy troops are
again moving on the base from the north.
Although the enemy still poses a signifi-
cant threat to Sam Thong, government guer-
rillas now are in control of all the prom-
inent ridges to the north between Long
Tieng and Tha Tam BZeung.
The North Vietnamese are continuing to
strengthen their supply lines southwest
of the Plaine des Jarres. Recently, a
North Vietnamese rear services unit moved
into the area immediately northwest of
Tha Tam Bleunq,/
North of the Plaine, Communist forces are edg-
ing closer to the government base at Bouam Long.
Government defenders have pulled back from a key po-
sition guarding the southwestern approaches, and
North Vietnamese troops have begun probing defenses
within a mile of the base.
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Pravda on 11 April announced the appointments
of two regionalparty bosses to government jobs deal-
ing with economic planning and technology. L. N.
Yefremov was named first deputy chairman of the State
Committee for Science and Technology; and T. I.
Sokolov was appointed first deputy chairman of the
State Planning Committee.
Both men, who have specialized in management of
agriculture, have been in eclipse for the past sev-
eral years. Yefremov was demoted from the Presidium
(Politburo) following Khrushchev's removal. Sokolov
had run into trouble earlier, during the period when
he was responsible for party affairs in the virgin
lands.
Ambassador Beam says that both appointments
may be demotions, since the two men stand
a chance of Losing the Central Committee
status that went along with their former
jobs. In the short run their appointments
to the government bureaucracy represent an
effort by the party to strengthen its con-
trol over the management of the ailing So-
viet economy. Last December, Brezhnev
harshly criticized the poor economic per-
formance of 1969 and placed much of the
blame on the government bureaucracy.
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Cambodia: The Communists are maintaining mili-
tary pressure on government forces near the border.
Large numbers of Viet Cong troops are still operating
in eastern Svay Rieng Province, where another Commu-
nist attack on Prasot was beaten off Saturday.
The Communists are also more active in Prey
Veng Province. Intercepted army messages indicate
the presence of sizable Communist concentrations in
Prey Veng, some of which are relativelyfar in from
the border.
South Vietnam: Veteran and student demonstra-
tors for the moment at least are holding their fire.
Most veterans seem willing to await the outcome of
pending National Assembly action on new benefits.
They also appear disposed to giVe the government a
little time to deliver on its promise of new housing.
The students, too, have been fairly quiet the last
few days. But some of the more militant of them may
be spurred into renewed agitation by the government's
announcement yesterday that, beginning on 20 April,
a military court will try 21 students on charges of
treason or otherwise endangering national security.
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