THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 MAY 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977482
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: May 30, 1970

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The President's Daily Brief
30 May 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
30 May 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Cambodia
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In Laos, the enemy is offering stiff resistance to
General yang. Pao's drive to the north. (Page 2)
Hungarian
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Chinese road builders in Laos are trying to complete
some routes before the rainy season. (Page 4)
The Soviets are preparing a major space event.
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SOUTH VIETNAM - CAMBODIA
Heavy fighting continues in Prey Veng city,
about 30 miles east of Phnom Penh. Communist troops
are well entrenched in some parts of the city but a
late report indicates that a South Vietnamese relief
column has arrived in the city to engage the enemy.
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LAOS
Communications intelligence indicates that the
Communists anticipated General yang Pao's northern
thrust against Ban Na and have assembled strong
blocking forces in his path. At last report, the
guerrillas were still well short of their objective
and were having difficulty driving the Communists
from the high ground.
The enemy may also launch diversionary
attacks in the vicinity of Sam Thong in
order to force Vang Pao to break off the
Ban Na offensive. The Communists appear
determined to forestall any government
attempt to repeat last year's rainy sea-
son offensive when enemy forces were
largely cleared from the Plaine des Jarres.
This may prove difficult\because Communist
units south of the Plaine are increasingly
preoccupied with supply problems aggra-
vated by bad weather.
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NORTHERN LAOS: Communist Chinese Road Construction
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Road built
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NOTES
Communist China - Laos: Recent good quality
photography of the entire Chinese road building ef-
fort in northern Laos reveals continued,ef fort to
wind up work on roads already under way before the
start of the rainy season. There is no indication
that the Chinese will attempt to complete the road
southwest to the Mekong before the onset of heavy
summer rains-. Road construction in northeast Laos,
however, may connect with a motorable road from Dien
Bien Phu before rains halt work. Elsewhere, Chinese
road construction and improvements near the Sino-
Laotian border and in north central Laos show little
or no progress.
USSR: Preparations apparently are under way
for a major space event some time within the next
two weeks.
The
Axtbu UVJL mannuu bpat. Ellynt WdS in uctoper 1969,
when three manned Soyuz spacecraft were launched as
part of a program to develop a manned space station.
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