THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 OCTOBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977015
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 1, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
1- October 1969
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WEST GERMANY
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ISRAEL
What promises to be a fairly quiet Knesset election cam?
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paign opened Sunday. Quiet or not, it is bringing to light
some significant developments. We believe, for instance,
that the elections may mark the end of the slim parliamentary
majority now held by the Labor Party/MAPAM alignment. Mrs.
Meir will doubtless stay on as premier, but the Labor Party's
hope of attaining an absolute majority may have gone a-glim-
mering. With it will go the prospect of constitutional re-
forms designed to eliminate the smaller parties from the leg-
islature.
Widespread fear of domination by a "monolithic" Labor
Party has in fact been one of the factors contributing to the
recent decline in the party's following. There are two more
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immediate reasons, however: a growing feeling in the elec-
torate that the present government is not sufficiently mili-
tant toward the Arab states or sufficiently assiduous in pro-
moting Israel's security, and a general failure by the Labor
Party's old guard to appeal to the younger generation. In
an effort to minimize the losses on both these latter scores,
Dayan is being pushed more and more to the front. We note,
for example, that he is in the fourth spot on the list of the
alignment's candidates; earlier reports had him occupying a
place in the twenties or thirties.
SOVIET UNION
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COMMUNIST CHINA
Preliminary accounts of the anniversary observance in
Peking today, broadcast over Peking Radio's domestic service,
include the announcement that both Mao Tse-tung and Lin Piao
were present. Neither had appeared in public since mid-May.
Mao was described as being "in excellent health and full of
vigor;" Lin was said to be "also in good spirits."
PANAMA
The Panamanians are again making noises about the canal
. issue after some months of relative quiet. The controlled
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local press is emphasizing Foreign Minister Pitty's recent re-
marks at the UN that the "unjust" 1903 treaty must be abrogated.
This may be followed, according to a knowledgeable source of
the US Embassy, by similar criticism of the 1967 draft treaty.
By this two-pronged tactic the government hopes to rally popu-
lar support both for itself and for renegotiating the old
treaty.
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