THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 SEPTEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976383
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 30, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
30 SEPTEMBER 1968
1. Czechoslovakia -
Warsaw Pact
2. World Communist The preparatory committee meets
? Conference today in Budapest with the chances
better than even that the conference
of world Communist parties will not be
held in November. The Russians would
like to have the conference, but they
may find the wiser course is to post-
pone it in view of open opposition
from important West European parties--
? notably the Italian and French--who
have criticized the invasion of Czecho-
slovakia.
3. Peru
Belaunde and his vice president
are unreconcilable in their bitter feud
over the agreement between the govern-
ment and the US-owned International Pe-
troleum Company, Vice President Seoane--
who is driving to succeed Belaunde in
next June's election--feels the presi-
dent gave away too much. The dispute
irks the military and there are rumors
of a coup. So far, however, the con-
stitutionally-minded military are not
ready to move.
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4. Ecuador
5. Jerusalem
6. Soviet Union
A lively political war is shaping
up between Ecuador's aging President
Velasco and Carlos Julio Arosemena who
is scheming to recover the presidency
he lost in 1963.
Velasco won a congressional skirm-
ish over civil service appointments
last week, but not before Arosemena had
managed to get some highly dubious
characters placed in key positions.
The Soviet birth rate dropped al-
most one third between 1960 and 1967.
It has been below the US birth rate
since 1963. The decline is likely to
continue well into the next decade,
and the Soviet Union may have trouble
meeting its rising manpower require-
ments after 1980.
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7. Western Europe
8. West Germany
Italy and the Benelux states are
expected to go forward with their
plans for closer economic links with
Britain despite De Gaulle's latest re-
buff. Kiesinger's unwillingness to
really stand up to De Gaulle, however,
will leave them uncertain on how much
they can count on Bonn's support. The
whole matter will be aired again in
Rome on 21 and 22 October when the West
European Union council meeting brings
Britain and the Market members together.
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De Gaulle told former Governor
Scranton "there could be no program
on European unity because other mem-
bers of the Common Market insist on a
close association with the US for de-
fense."
Scranton told the embassy in Bonn
that he had found both Kiesinger and
Brandt "positive" on the need for an
increased German defense effort as a
result of Czechoslovakia.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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30 September 1968
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
30 September 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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More on Front Office in Paris: The Vietnamese
Communists have secured French permission to open a
Front information office in Paris sometime after
5 October.(
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Education:
no schools had re-
openea in Hanoi or Haiphong for the fall term.
dispersed schools
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in the nearby countryside and provinces would again
handle the children evacuated from these two cities.
In the southern part of the country where the bomb-
ing continues, underground classes would again be
held. According to the party newspaper, one in
three North Vietnamese will attend schools of some
kind this year.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
US Students Visit Front Mission in Havana: Radio
Hanoi has publicized the recent visit of a Students
for a Democratic Society (SDS) delegation to the Na-
tional Liberation Front mission in Havana.
,According to an English language international
broadcast on 27 September, the SDS group expressed
their support for "the valiant fight of the Vietnam-
ese people .againstt the US Government's aggression."
Radio Hanoi called the delegation representatives of
American students and said SDS welcomed the "big vic-
tories" achieved during the current Communist drive.
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