CEASE-FIRE DEVELOPMENTS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85T00875R000700010063-1
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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 63
• Publication Date: July 2, 1973
• Content Type: REPORT

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2 July 1973
Lon Nol May He Seriously III
The Military Situation
SOUTH VIETNAM 3
.Slight Incroane in Military Activity
Another Hanoi "Auuiutance"
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Lutz /it, I Mutt' L 1 3tlr': .~ tia i t , 1 1 1
High Political Council member Sink Matak told
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dent a cuffure another stroke" uarl,y on the morning
of 2 july. Word of Lon Nol''s %llness was conveyed ,to
Ratak by a Cambodian Army o f f. icar., who evidently is a
member of the President's entourage. According to
'Ratak, the officer stated that Lon Nol had'?almoat
died," his breathing was quite labored, and bin blood
pressure was very high. The officer added that 'the
President was ordered to bed for three days of com-
plete rest and that he was forbidden to exert himself
physically during that time.
There has been no confirmation of Lon Uol''s ill-
nuns. Ratak is in no position to -j,idge the exact
nature of the President's ailment., a,1d it is possible
he has merely had an attack of high biood pressure.
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the President could have a second stro}E,e at any 'time
even though he has made a generally good recovery from
the one in February 197L.
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naa.a"tn,, u+~a3'1w~ii1~', a{ipi~iST~Lif +.~ .. ~ ill +~..1 con-
ce-ned about the prospects for government stability
in the Lace of Lon idol' a illness. Ile told E_ I 25X1
5X1 that he and the 'two remaining mambera o e
g olitical Council could carry on -effectively If
the President were unable to continue in oft-ice.
The M;_? *art,
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of Route 5 dust below the garrison town of Tuk Laak,
some 3A miles north kzii the capital. 'Insurgent units,,
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however, are ut.tll on the road above the town. Com-
munist; fears:es are also ranging a1 ng Route 6 near
the fierry landing on the Tonle Sap :liver, but Cam-
bodian Army elements have held an to pos ti-one along
the road some ton miles east of the river deswyxte
several sharp engagements. South of Phnom L?enh,
go\'-_rnsnent commanders ;:sport little progress in
secur. ng eect.ions of Routes 3 and 201 because at
heavy Conmunlut resistanae. To 'the want,, fighting
has slackened near Kompong spou, but come jittery
'territorial units have abandonun outposts north and
south of the town in the past several dz ya . A truck
convoy reached Phnom Penh over Route 4 on 2 July.
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There has .beean some increase An fighting during
the past few days? mostly in the few areas that are
still hotly contented by both s idol. The sharpewt
action has been in Kontum Province, where the govern-
ment has been using heavier air and artillery to -ti .y
to recapture two villages west of :the provincial
capital. There are indications that additional gov-
ernment forces are being moved into the area for
another drive against ?the villages that could start
as early do .A July..
Sporadic clashes were reported in .Dinh Dinh.,
Quang ' Ngai, and Quang Nam provinces., in areas where
the government is still :trying to improve its con-
troL. in the southern h%lf of the country, South
Vietnamese :forces c.La .m to have cleared segments of
two roadways north and ; east of Saigon abut have lost
another outpost in Chuong Thien -Province.
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ilnobher llanoi "Aaoiutanue" A(tracmant
A Lao Communist delegation signed ~ a "medical
cooperation"' agreement with the ' North Vietnamese
Government in Hanoi late last weak, according to
the Vietnam ' Nows Agency-. This is the -third "lassist-
ance" agreement in the pant two months and--like
the others--may be designed in part to provide a
cloak of legitimacy for a continued N- ,- h Vietnamese
presenca in'Laos.
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