THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 AUGUST 1970

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977634
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 20, 1970

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The President's Daily. Brief
20 August 1970
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
20 August 1970
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Communist forces in Cambodia are probing government
positions on the northern approaches to Phnom Penh;
Sihanouk continues to broadcast from Peking. (Page 1)
Health officials in the USSR are increasingly worried
about the outbreak of cholera. (Page 2)
Leaders from the countries of Eastern Europe. are
meeting in, Moscow to coordinate their approaches to
West Germany and to European security. ,(Page 3)
Government forces in Laos have renewed their efforts
to retake Ban Na. (Page 4)
Czechoslovaks may mark the second anniversary of the
invasion with a self-imposed curfew, but actual
breaches of security are unlikely. (Page 4)
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USSR
That cholera outbreak in the Soviet Union
appears to be more widespread than offi-
cially admitted by the Soviets. (See The
President's Daily Brief of 12 August.)
Soviet Health Ministry officials have announced
the closing of the cities of Odessa and Astrakhan,
where the first cases of cholera were reported.
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/Travel restrictions are_
quite extensive, encompassing' large areas in the
Caucasus and the Crimea--cases have been reported
in Pyatigorsk and in Kerch. The Black Sea coast is
restricted, as is the corridor along the Volga River'
south of Gorkiy.
To cope with the epidemic, various precautions
have been taken. Restaurant dining is being dis-
couraged, swimming is prohibited in reservoirs in
the Moscow area, and drinking water is to be either
boiled or chlorinated. In addition, civil defense
personnel are reported to have been mobilized.
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USSR - EASTERN EUROPE
East European delegations to a Warsaw Pact sum-
mit meeting arrived in Moscow yesterday and will
probably begin formal talks today. Now that the
Soviet - West German treaty has been signed, the So-
viets probably want to coordinate future policy
moves with their allies.
the treaty
cleared the way for the conclusion of similar trea-
ties by the Poles, East Germans, and Czechoslovaks.
The next round of Polish - 'West German negotiations--
which are already far advanced--is scheduled for
early September. Pankow, of course, has begun a
dialogue with Bonn, and within the last few days
Prague has hinted at its willingness to open talks.
The meeting will also give Moscow an op-
portunity to renew its efforts for a con-
ference on European security. Moscow prob-
ably intends to use the treaty with Bonn
to add impetus to its campaign for such a
conference. The Soviet press has already
argued that the treaty should satisfy West-
ern demands that progress on specific se-
curity issues precede a conference, and
the summit meeting may issue a formal
statement to this effect.
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NOTES
? Laos: Government forces southwest of the Plaine
des Jarres have renewed their effort to retake Ban Na,
a small outpost located about 14 miles north of Long
Tieng. General Vang Pao's previous drives toward Ban
Na from the south over the past three months have been
turned back by stubborn opposition and counterattacks
by the North Vietnamese. This latest attempt, initi-
ated on Tuesday, involved a helicopter airlift of over
500 men to positions five milesnorth of the enemy
stronghold and so. far it has met little resistance.
The effort to retake Ban Na is the first step in .a
modest rainy season offensive designed to improve the
defenses of the Long Tieng complex.
Czechoslovakia: Security forces have taken pre-
cautionary steps to prevent demonstrations tomorrow--
the second anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion--
but neither the regime nor the public expect anything
serious to happen. Dissidents in Prague have dis-
tributed leaflets urging a quiet evening boycott of
public establishments and a self-imposed curfew. Most
Czechs are aware that breaches of security such as
occurred last year would only weaken the Husak govern-
ment, endangering its fragile truce with party con-
servatives who favor harsher repressive tactics.
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