THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 JUNE 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976827
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• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 14, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
14 June 1969
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I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
MIDDLE EAST
Gromyko left Cairo yesterday after protracted talks
with Nasir and company. He conferred with the Egyptian
President at least three times, and with officials of
the Foreign Ministry as well. Egyptians present at the
latter meeting have told the US representative in Cairo
that the discussions were both difficult and detailed.
We do not yet have a firm reading on the nature of the
discussions, but a good bet would be that a joint counter-
proposal to the US propositions for a negotiated settle-
ment was being drafted.
In a rather frank discussion with the US representa-
tive in Cairo, one of Nasir's close advisers alluded di-
rectly to the key factor governing Egypt's reluctance to
move toward meaningful negotiations: fear of a violently
adverse reaction from the man in the street. The adviser
said that the government's own sounding of Egyptian opinion
on a settlement had produced unclear returns, but he was
obviously and not surprisingly worried that any effective
steps toward negotiations would result in an uncontrollable
spasm among the populace. He twice remarked that it was a
"miracle" that the government had remained in power for two
years after the 1967 war.
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VIETNAM
Communist shelling increased in the northern provinces
on 12-13 June, amid further signs of enemy plans for another
intense flare-up of attacks similar to the "high point" of
6-8 June. There are continuing indications that the enemy
will concentrate shelling attacks and ground probes at least
in the I and III corps areas in a new offensive which could
come as early as 15 June,
EUROPE
Mayor Schuetz leaves Berlin today on a visit to Poland
which has all the overtones of a typical cat-and-mouse game
between European statesmen--and between West German
political rivals as well. The various participants
game have a wide assortment of aims
domestic
in the
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SOVIET AFFAIRS
MOSCOW has publicized a note to the Chinese offering
?to resume "unconditional" border talks in the next two or
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three months. The -statement, a response to peking's polem-
ical call for talks .of 24 May, is a bid both to buttress
Moscow's position in the face of continuing Chinese propa-
ganda blasts and to forstall further border incidents, which
could be especially difficult for the Russians at this time.
The Soviets clearly have the international Communist
conference in Moscow in mind, and the new appeal may repre-
sent a concession to parties made uneasy by the anti-Chinese
direction the meeting has taken this week. .Although placing
the blame on China for breaking off border talks in 1964 and
for all recent "provocations," Moscow sought to strike a
note of reasonableness by stressing Soviet interest in early
efforts to patch up border differences responsibly. Never-
theless, there is little likelihood that the talks, when
they take, place, will make much substantive progress
Soviet military activity along the Sino-Soviet border
remains at a high level.
II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
There is nothing significant to report.
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