CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: December 20, 1967

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The CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN is produced by the
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Czechoslovakia: Party crisis may come to a head at
central committee meeting. (Page 3)
Congo (Kinshasa): Status of mercenaries (Page 4)
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*South Vietnam: There is further evidence of Com-
munist plans to intensify military operations in the
southern part of I Corps.
An enemy document, captured recently, also
pointed to a major expansion of Communist operations
this winter in the heavily populated coastal sections in
this part of South Vietnam.
In the latest manifestation of political tensions in
Saigon, South Vietnam's Senate yesterday overwhelm-
ingly rejected the government's controversial partial
mobilization decree.
Individuals in both houses of the legislature have
been critical of the decree, both for its content and for
its promulgation without legislative approval, but
eventual acceptance was still expected. Defense
Minister Vy appeared separately before both houses
on 18 December to defend the decree, and his perform--
ance appeared to have been well received. Several
senators, in fact, indicated that the government would
receive no trouble from that quarter.
Opposition to the decree is more vocal in the
Lower House which is now likely to take its cue from
the Senate and follow with another rejection. The issue
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The government has been saying that the decree will
be applied as scheduled on 1 January, but Defense
Minister Vy, during his Lower House appearance, in-
dicated that a new de fr m the new assembl
would be acceptable.
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Czechoslovakia: The recently intensified party
crisis may come to a head at a central committee
meeting this week.
There has been ample evidence in recent months
that the political situation was becoming critical.
The US Embassy believes that the most rancorous
divisions are on economic issues, but that many other
grave problems have also added to strife in the leader--
ship. A Prague Foreign Ministry official has sug-
gested, however, that there will be no basic policy
changes, but instead an accommodation of views. In
the past this sort of inconclusive compromise has
enabled the regime to muddle through.
The central committee meeting was originally set
for 13 December, but postponed until this week. The
postponement, following Brezhnev's sudden visit to
Prague on 8-9 December, has led to speculation con-
cerning possible high-level personnel changes affecting
even party boss Novotny.
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NOTES
Congo (Kinshasa): The fate of Schramme's mer-
cenaries in Rwanda is still uncertain, despite much
discussion at the recent African leaders' conference
in Uganda. Agreement reportedly was reached to re-
turn the mercenaries to the Congo no later than 19
December to stand trial, but Rwandan President
Kayibanda apparently had not concurred. Mobutu and
Kayibanda are scheduled to continue discussions today
in Tanzania. Congolese patience, however, appears
to be running thin, and if there are no results soon,
Mobutu may try to take matters into his own hands.
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