THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 MAY 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976168
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 27, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
27 MAY 1968
1. France
The government this morning an-
nounced a provisional settlement of the
nationwide strike. The heart of the
agreement is an across-the-board wage
hike of 7 percent for industrial work-
ers on 1 June, and another 3 percent on
1 October.
Pompidou told the press that the
agreement meets most but not all of
labor's demands. It is still not alto-
gether certain whether this will be
enough to get the strikers back to work.
Prospects all the same are for more
violence as students prepare for a new
demonstration this afternoon in defiance
of the edict suspending the right of
assembly.
The response to De Gaulle's call
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for a referendum continues to be nega-
tive.
2. South Vietnam Prime Minister Huong's cabinet con-
tains no major surprises.
The key portfolios of defense and
interior are retained by military offi-
cers, generals Vy and Khiem, respective-
ly. Vy is a holdover from the Loc cabi-
net and is close to the senior generals.
Khiem, on the other hand, has been
brought in apparently to strengthen
Thieu's hand against pressures from Ky's
military supporters. Huong took the rev-
olutionary development post himself.
The new cabinet favors technicians
over politicians with organized support.
With nine of the 18 ministers clearly
identified as southerners, the new cabi-
net has a stronger southern flavor than
its predecessor, a development not likely
to sit well with Ky and other northern
generals.
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3. Czechoslovakia -
Soviet Union
4, Soviet Union
5. Haiti
Nia, 65/
Neither Moscow nor Prague has had
anything to say yet about the results
of Kosygin's trip to Czechoslovakia
which ended on Saturday. There are
some signs that the Soviets will wait
for the outcome of the Czech Central
Committee meeting this week before de-
ciding on their next move.
Kosygin apparently failed to ex-
tract any major concessions from the
Czechs. He did get assurances, how-
ever, that Prague will participate ac-
tively in the Warsaw Pact and the "in-
ternational Communist movement," and
that some measures are being taken to
restrict the activities of non-Commu-
nists.
The Russians have still not com-
mented on the crash of their TU-16
close to the USS Essex in the Norwegian
Sea on Saturday.
The Haitians in the Security Coun-
cil today will probably charge that
the US allowed the exiles to obtain
aircraft and equipment in this country
and tolerated anti-Duvalier broadcasts
from US soil. The Haitian press has
already stated that four Americans pi-
loted the attacking aircraft.
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7. Thailand
President.Ficos had been out of
public sight for two months. We now
learn that he appeared last week on
Havana television.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
27 May 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
War Crimes Tribunal to Meet in Paris: The Inter-
national War Crimes Tribunal is proceeding with plans
to hold a conference next month in Paris, notwith-
standing the French internal situation and the current
talks between the US and North Vietnam.
/the confer-
ence is to deal with "United States genocide in Viet-
namese population centers since the Tet offensive."
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Hanoi Proposes Postponement of Elections: A
committee of North Vietnam's National Assembly has
proposed that Assembly members' terms of office be
prolonged, according to a Hanoi broadcast of 25 May.
The committee suggests that elections be postponed
until "the situation permits." Assembly elections
had been scheduled for sometime this year.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
There is nothing of significance to report today.
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