CEASE-FIRE DEVELOPMENTS

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• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: May 23, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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Cease -Fire Developments
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CONTENTS
23 Mny 1973
CAMBODIA. to 1
The Military Situation
VIETNAM. 2
ixilon Wooed by Both Siden
I..AOS . . . . . . a . . . t o o . . . . . . . .6 3
Pheng Meoto with the Military
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CAMBODIA
'1_1iaa Mititartj "ituation
Communist military activity east of Phnom Penh
in the vicinity of the government's Mekong River
bane at Nonk Luong remained at a high level on 23
May. A government battalion operating on Route 1
a few miles west of Neak Luong has been isolated by
Communist forces, and Neak. Luong itself was sub-
jected to another heavy shelling. At last report,
no positior.i near the base had been lost.
Government forces met no resistance in clearing
Route 3 southward to the village of Zram Khnar, or
in reopening a sectioz, of Route 4 northeast of Kompong
Som that had been closed by Communist attacks on 21
May. Truck convoys between Kompong Som and Phnom
Penh are to be resumed in the next few an,A _
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V I lTNAM
h'xvl'on Wooi'd by lio01 1erjo.n
Both Saigon and Hanoi are necking to improve
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an week
that Thiou now recognizes that many of the exiles
are opposed to his government, but are not neces-
sarily pro-Communist. As part of a more concilia-
tory policy, Thieu has ordered a review of the cases
of those expatriates living in France, the US and
Japan, who have been "blacklisted" and prohibited
from returning to South Vietnam. Thieu apparently
believes that removing restrictions on some indi-
viduals can help to improve Saigon's standing among
exiles in general.
Members of the North Vietnamese diplomatic mis-
sion in Paris are also under orders not to antagonize
the exiles and to treat all Vietnamese in Paris in a
conciliatory and courteous manner. Hanoi's charge in
Paris recently that discourteous con-
duct ha given Vietnamese exiles a poor impression of
North Vietnam. The charge claimed that the mission
must be prepared for the coming of a peace settlement
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officials of the Saigon government amicably, because
some of tliem might be in a new government formed after
a Peace em
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LAOS
1'Jta-r l"oCrI witIr 01',
Government negotiator l'hong Phongsavan i'au been
talking with senior Lao Army officers during the past
two weeks about possible military concessions to the
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further conccwsions. They particularly objected to
the Pathet Lao proposal for a formal demarcation of
areas of control, which would give the Communists
some territory now under government control. Pheng
almost certainly anticipated these negative reactions,
but nevertheless believed that it is politically pru-
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