THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 12 NOVEMBER 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976457
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 12, 1968

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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
.12 NOVEMBER 1968
1. South Vietnam
2. Czechoslovakia -
Soviet Union
The Czechoslovak Central Committee
plenum is now set for Thursday, and
one leading liberal told his associates
it will be the occasion for major per-
sonnel shifts and "disillusionment for
the nation."
The strength of the conservatives
depends almost entirely on the amount
of muscle Moscow is willing to put be-
hind them, and this is still not clear.
At the very, least, however, it seems
certain that the many unrepentant liber-
als in the media will be in for a rough
time.
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3. Soviet Union -
Cuba
4. Pakistan
5. Okinawa
Moscow has offered to liberalize
the terms of its economic aid program
to Cuba
The Soviets are also willing to provide
new military equipment. The Cubans re-
gard these proposals as the most favor-
able to come out of Moscow in years.
Fidel Castro's qualified endorsement of
the invasion of Czechoslovakia probably
has something to do with the Soviet
largesse.
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The shots which rang out in Ayub's
presence Sunday apparently were fired
into the air by a 17-year-old student
who merely wanted to disrupt the meet-
ing Ayub was about to address. This
was one of several displays of student
discontent over the past few days. The
unrest seems to be on the decline at
the moment.
The victor in Okinawa's.first.elec-
tion for chief executive is .a political-
ly inexperienced leftist,-Chobyo Yara.
Yara, a respected figure but one with
no power base of his own, will have to
look for support to the three-party op-
position coalition. He himself, seems
.to-be a moderate on US-Okinawa issues,
but the coalition contains radical so-
cialists and Communists who are not.
Conservatives still control the
Okinawa legislature.
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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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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
12 November 1968
There is nothing of significance to report
today.
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