THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 JULY 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976227
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• Document Page Count: 13
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 1, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
1 JULY 1968
1, France
2. Uruguay
Voting essentially against Commu-
nism and in favor of the status quo,
Frenchmen yesterday gave De Gaulle a
resounding victory and an absolute ma-
jority in the new National Assembly.
The Gaullists and their.Independent Re-
publican allies won .355 seats out of
487; the Communists fell from 73 to 33.
With this massive Gaullist majority,
the Assembly could become even more of
a rubber stamp than before--De Gaulle
certainly has the power now to make some
changes in France. Whether ?he will or
not is problematic Some
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of his victory will send the General
back to his tower of conservative-self-
satisfaction and the real problems may
not-be dealt with.
President Pachecohas ordered tight
controls on wages and prices in an ef-
fort to rein in Uruguay's galloping in-
flation. Pacheco's decree, however, must
get congressional approval and this is
doubtful. Communist labor unions, al-
ready striking in protest over economic
policies, have pledged themselves to
sabotage any therapy Pacheco may try in
order to meet International Monetary
Fund recommendations.
3. Nonproliferation
Treaty At least 45 nations should be on
hand to sign the treaty today. Some
30 more signatures are expected by early
August.
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4, World Youth
Festival
Orthodox Communists have a tiger
by the tail in the Ninth World'Youth
Festival opening in Sofia, Bulgaria on
28 July. Student unrest nationality
conflicts, and ideological differences
all promise to. make this normally tame
Soviet-sponsored show :a considerably
more interesting performance this year.
? For example, the Italian delega-
? tion seems determined to hold a "Day of
European Youth Revolt" despite an of-
ficial veto. Czechoslovakia is send-
ing a delegation of 400 even though
there have been some pointed hints from
Moscow that this might be a good year
for the Czechs not to attend. The
Somali delegation plans a tirade against
Kenya and Ethiopia; the Moroccans and
Tunsians are threatening a walk-out if
any Israelis come.
If this is not enough to-keep Fes-
tival officials awake at night, there
is the prospect of-Chinese-oriented dele-
gations trying to-take over the activi
ties. There. are even rumors that the
Chinese themselves may attend.
And the official Festival slogan
is "peace, friendship, and solidarity."
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No one views student turmoil with
a more jaundiced eye than the conserva-
tive men in the Kremlin. Today, at
Annex, we discuss their approach to the
problem.
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5. Czechoslovakia
6. Haiti
-Prague announced yesterday that
the Warsaw;Pact exercise was over, $o-
viet_troops are still in Czechoslovakia,:
? .The pall of fear that always hangs
over.Haiti has taken on darker tones:as-
Duvalier-proceedswith the trial of
those captured after last month's abor-
tive invasion: ANames of government of-
ficials and businessmen are being men-
tioned in the courtroom as _coconspira-
tors.:and no: one is sure where:Papa ):soc-'s
hand may fall_next..
, Now, as in past times of unusual
tension thea rumorsof impending coups
are afloat in more than customary num-
bers r
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ANNEX
Moscow Turns Wary Eye On The New Left
The sort of ferment brewing for the World Youth
Festival concerns the Kremlin. Student assaults on
the political order in some West European countries
have drawn apprehensive responses from Soviet leaders
and have led them to take further measures to tighten
discipline among Soviet youth.
Party Secretary Demichev, speaking to ?a social
science conference on 19 June, lashed out at "revi-
sionist ideologists" abroad who try to replace the
class strUggle in capitalist society with the struggle
between generations and who proclaimyoung people to
?be the only true revolutionary force of our time.
A critique of the New Left doctrine of Herbert
Marcuse had appeared earlier in Pravda. Correspondent
Yury Zhukov hurled the epithet "werewolves" at Marcuse's
.followers, including the French radical student leader,
Cohn-Bend it,
Such expressions display traditional Communist
antipathy toward revolutionary movements not of the
working class. The consequences of student agitation
for Communist rule have been made plain to Soviet
leaders by events in Eastern Europe, A Czechoslovak
student proposal to create a student organization
free of any ties with the Communist Party was sharply
rebuked by a Soviet education official.
Even allowing for some overreaction on the part
of a regime which tends to abhor the unconventional,
Soviet leaders apparently judge that the ideological
apathy and generational antagonisms of Soviet youth
make the latter susceptible to the temptations of stu-
dent _radicalism in Europe. Youth and teacher con-
ferences throughout the Soviet Union have made the
younger generation the focal point of current efforts
to shore .up ideological defenses against the unortho-
dox concepts seeping in from the outside.
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Such a program, however, instilling into youth
"a purposeful, ordered system of views" as Demichev
put it, represents the old authoritarian approach
that has in the past worked to alienate students from
party leadership both at home.and abroad.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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I July 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
1 July 1968
I. NOTES ON TEE SITUATION
May Shipping Report: In May, 52 foreign ships,
the highest number of arrivals since March 1965, de-
livered a record volume of 221,000 tons of cargo.
Bulk food imports of 96,500 tons surpassed the pre-
vious record volume by about 40 percent,
North Vietnamese Negotiations Delegates on Peace
Talks: On 20 June two members of Hanoi's delegation
to Paris talks told
that in order to break the
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negotiations "stalemate" the Americans must cease un-
conditionally the bombing of the north They said
once the bombing has stopped the North Vietnamese were
prepared to discuss any topic whatsoever.
The officials went on to say'that the subject
of reunification of Vietnam was crucial to the North,
but that the Americans steadfastly refused to enter
into discussions On the matter. While Hanoi did not
insist on a clear-cut timetable for reunification nor
on immediate discussions on the means of effecting
reunification, agreement on the principle that reuni-
fication will eventually take place was essential.
Nevertheless, the. North Vietnamese intended to re-
main in Paris and were convinced the Americans would
also:
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:Le Duc Tho to Hanoi: Tho,left Paris on Saturday
and stopped over in Moscow where he saw Kosygin. He
also will stop inPeking. His trip home was described
as "routine" by a North Vietnamese spokesman in Paris.
The spokesman added that Tho would 'Soon return to
Paris.
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