THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 JULY 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976855
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: July 1, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
I july 1969
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
VIETNAM
In his conversation with Ambassador Bunker on 28 June,
President Thieu responded in a positive vein to US suggestions
for his forthcoming statement, to be made around 10 July.
Thieu's willingness to go along with the US appears to
result in part from the fact that he has now had time to di-
gest Le Duc Tho's recent rejection of a suggestion that the
Communists might join the GVN on an electoral commission or
accept internationally supervised elections. Although Thieu
clearly has his own reservations about trying to work jointly
with the Communists in a mixed election commission, he may
now feel that he can yield to US pressure for such a proposal
in the expectation that the Communists will reject it.
His cooperative attitude May be a prelude to a demand!
that the next initiative come from the Communists. Thieu
hinted as much by expressing to Ambassador Bunker the hope'
that Moscow might use the GVN's forthcoming statement to pres-
sure some move by Hanoi.
Hanoi's chief negotiator, Xuan Thuy, may be en route back
to the Paris talks./
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EUROPE
Mayor Schuetz's recent article in the journal Die Zeit,
in which he all but advocated recognizing the_Oder-Neisse line,
has tarnished the modest luster of his trip to Poland earlier
this month, The CDU, trying to capitalize on the trend it
sees toward conservatism in the electorate is hammering away
at the mayor's alleged indiscretion. Schuetz's fellow Social-
ists are obviously worried that the article will blur the im-
age which they were counting on to win them votes next fall--
that of aparty pursuing a progressive yet cautious policy
toward Eastern Europe.
There is nothing significant to report on Soviet Affairs
or the Middle East.
II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS'
LAOS
The government is taking steps to blunt recent Communist
military gains west of the Plaine des Jarres.
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To the west of Muong Soui the government is moving to
clear Communist force's 'dug in near Phou Khoun, a hi4hpoint
overlooking the Route 7/13 road junction. Government units
fresh from the capture of the Commuilist position at Tha Thom
are reinforcing government defenders at Muong kassy.
ARGENTINA
The government imposed a state of siege throughout the
country last night and arrested a number of antigovernment
labor figures. These moves followed the assassination yester-
day of Augusto Vandor, a Peronist who was Argentina's most
powerful labor leader, apparently by radical rivals within the
labor movement. The government's stern measures reduce the
likelihood that the general strike scheduled for today will
be successful.
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