THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 DECEMBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977175
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: December 3, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
3 December 1969
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
3 December 1969
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
South Vietnait
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The election year is already well started in Chile.
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The European Communities end their summit meeting.
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Soviets
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Cuba scorns diplomatic relations with its neighbors.
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SOUTH VIETNAM
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CHILE
The presidential campaign in Chile has begun,
although the election is ten months away. Of seven
declared candidates, three are presently considered
?the real contenders. These are former president
Jorge Alessandri on the right, Radomiro Tomic of
the governing Christian Democratic Party, and So-
cialist Senator Salvador Allende on the far left.
Alessandri, now 73 years old, is an independent
with a nationalistic and paternalistic image that
carries his appeal far beyond. the conservative Na-
tional Party that nominated him. The ambitious and
combative Tomic, rebuffed in a pitch ?for Communist
support, is now courting middle Class backing and
trying to reorganize the lower class groups that
figured in Frei's victory in 1964.. Allende suffers
from overexposure and lukewarm support from his own
party, but he is ahead of the. other four candidates
of the far left because of his vote-getting prowess
--demonstrated in three previous presidential tries.
Chileans are obsessed with politics.
Their numerous, opinionated, and artic-
ulate newspapers foster this interest
and accentuate divisions. Acrimonious
political jokes are a national avocation,
and political judgments are harsh and
changeable. The Frei government's "revo-
lution in liberty" has alienated both
right and left, and the majority of
Chileans who belong to no political party
are seeking a new solution. There is
strong evidence of widespread desire for
a pause in innovation and for order and
security. This desire has made most
observers see Alessandri leading the race,
but it is balanced by an equally apparent
fear of retrogression. An imponderable
factor is the consistent and growing
strength of the Chilean leftist forces--
Zed by the largest, best organized, and
most influential orthodox Communist party
in Latin America outside of Cuba.
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EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
A communique issued at the end of the summit
meeting in The Hague includes an agreement in,'Prin-
ciplel on opening membership negotiations with Brit-
ain, Denmark, NorWay, and Ireland. The.-members
also expressecl_their wish to agree upon definitive
agricultural financing arrangements by the end of
this year, and to see, the EC Council reduce farm
surpluses and cut the costs of the Common AgriCul-
tural Policy. In addition, they recommended that
national contributions to the farm fund be phased
out, and replaced by the Communities' "own re
sources."
The agreement was reached after. Brandt and. Pom-
pidou had stated their countries' positionsstrOngly
in Monday's Seasion, Brandt, expressing West Ger-
many's new assertiveness in foreign affairs,: deliv-
ered a dramatic plea for the enlargement of the Com-
munities. Pompidou,, while making it clea'r that the
French veto on British accession had been reMOved,
stressed the conditions that would have to be met
before negotiations could begin.
The effect of the resolution of these
problems on the future shape of the Com-
munities is far from clear. Despite
urging by EC Commission President Rey,
no commitments seem to have been made to
strengthen community institutions. More-
over, the arrangements for increased po-
litical cooperation suggested by both
Pompidou and Brandt could, unless care-
fully circumscribed, detract from exist-
ing institutions.
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CUBA
Cuban Foreign Minister Roa said recently that Castro
has no desire to re-establish diplomatic relations
with other Latin American countries. He believes
that virtually all existing governments in Latin
America are "rotten" and doomed to fall within a
few years. Roa claimed, however, ?that Castro would
welcome commercial relations with'the rest of Latin
America--if the deals worked to Cuba's advantage--
but believes that few countries have much to offer.
Castro's real interest in resuming rela-
tions with any Latin American country
would be the effect such a move would
have on undermining the OAS Sanctions or
the US economic denial campaign. In a
speech last July he offered to resume
ties, but only with those governments
willing to .acknowledge the "immorality"
of the OAS sanctions against Cuba and to
'renounce them publicly.
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NOTES
UN - Arms Control: The Soviets have indicated
they will press to a vote their own draft CBW reso-
lution. This would have the ?General Assembly com-
mend the USSR's proposed convention which bans the
production, development, and stockpiling of CBW
agents and requires the destruction of existing
stocks. Soviet disarmament expert Alexey Roschin
described as wholly unacceptable the Canadian pro-
posal ?that would evenhandedly refer all CBW resolu-
tions to the Geneva disarmament talks for further
consideration. Roschin also noted that the Soviet
position was in line with the Swedish initiative
that would have the General Assembly interpret the,
Geneva Protocol of 1925 as prohibiting the use of
tear gas and herbicides in war. These CBW resolu-
tions--and any others that May be introduced--will
cOme up for voting in the General Assembly in about
ten days.
Venezuela: President Caldera is increasingly
concerned that the revised US petroleum import pro-
gram will further reduce his:,Oountry's share of US
markets. Caldera's concern is genuine. From 1962
to 1968, Venezuela's share of:US crude oil imports
dropped from 41..1 percent to 26.6 percent, and its
share of the refined'produCt.alSo dropped signifi-
cantly. A further reduction Of oil exports to the
US would have an immediate impact on the country's
social and economic programs, which depend heavily.
on oil revenues for financing..
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