THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 NOVEMBER 1972

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005993608
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: November 4, 1972

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The President's Daily Brief
4 November 1972
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
4 November 1972.
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
China's fourth commentary this week about Vietnam
implies anxiety about the peace negotiations.
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The Soviets
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Government forces have recaptured recently lost
towns in southern Laos. (Page 3)
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The French Air Force is now in possession of tactical
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West Germany
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CHINA-VIETNAM
In their strongest attack yet on the US position
regarding a Vietnam settlement, the Chinese have
charged that Washington is stalling in order to re-
negotiate the "basic content" of an agreement it al-
ready had accepted. Peking's commentary, its fourth
this week on Vietnam, appeared in People's Daily
over the authoritative signature "Commentator" on 3
November. Commentator asserted that the "half-dozen
CT so points" referred to by Dr. Kissinger last week
"are by no means trivial" but are central to a set-
tlement. Because they mesh with President Thieu's
main objections, Commentator argued that the US is
using Thieu as the cutting edge of its own efforts
to "revise all the principal articles in the text
of the agreement"--an accord that Peking claims the
US accepted in official notes to Hanoi in late Oc-
tober.
This statement sharpens the divergence be-
tween Peking and Moscow, which has been
markedly more equivocal. Peking's earlier
statements also implied anxiety about the
state of play in the negotiations, but
Commentator on 3 November said flat out
that "if the US plan is successful.. .there
will hardly be any prospect of restoring
peace in Vietnam." As in earlier commen-
tary, however, Peking's latest statement
avoided ruling out further negotiations.
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NOTES
Laos: Government forces have recouped most of
their recent losses in the south. On 2 November a
five-battalion irregular task force recaptured Keng
Kok, a village about 30 miles southeast of Savanna-
khet, after three days of close combat. The two
battalions of North Vietnamese troops that over-
ran Keng Kok last weekend have apparently withdrawn
to the east to regroup and resupply. In the south-
ern panhandle, Lao Army units met no opposition in
reoccupying the provincial capital of Khong Sedone.
USSR:
China:
France: Early last month the French Air Force
received its first tactical nuclear weapons, accord-
ing to a recent statement to Parliament by Defense
Minister Debre.)
//Debre stated that the Jaguar tactical
fighter may also carry nuclear bombs when it is in-
troduced into service in early 1973:
West Germany:
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