CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN - 1968/01/18

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Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
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*Vietnam 2
South Vietnam: The government's decision to
release five of the six arrested labor leaders should
ease labor tensibns, but its plans to try Vo Van Tai,
who was not released, could provoke new trouble.
Tai, secretary general of the Saigon Council of
the Vietnamese Confederation of Labor, will be tried
for violation of the law forbidding strikes, the mini-
mum penalty for which is a five-year sentence.
The Lower House of the National Assembly elected
Nguyen Ba Luong as its permanent chairman on 17 Jan-
uary. His election was brought about by an alliance be-
tween his pro-government Democratic Bloc and the
largely Catholic Independence Bloc. The defeated can-
didate, Hue deputy Nguyen Dai Bang, is an outspoken
government opponent. Two of the three other impor-
tant posts in the house also went to individuals gener-
ally considered pro-government.
elements of the Communist B-3 Front are planning of-
fensive action against allied positions in Pleiku Prov-
ince in the near future.
On 16 January the headquarters of the North Viet-
namese Army 1st Division informed an unidentified sub-
ordinate that new attacks are planned against the fire
support base at Le Thanh and the Special Forces camp
at Due Co and that the area north and south of Route 19
would be liberated, "in the immediate future." In north-
east Pleiku, unidentified elements of the Front have
been noted discussing plans for a night mortar or artil-
lery attack to be conducted between 17 and 19 January.
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EIn remarks on 16 January which received wide pub-
licity, Mai Van Bo, North Vietnamese representative in
Paris, went a bit beyond the Trinh statement. Bo ad-
dressed the issues of timing and substance of postbomb-
ing talks, saying that they could start "after a suitable
time" and that both the level of the talks and the agenda
were negotiable. Such questions, he said, could be
discussed during a preliminary "meeting between the
two parties." He said Hanoi would accept either a pub-
lic statement by the US or "any other procedure" which
demonstrates US sincerity, but he ruled out any recip-
rocal North Vietnamese gesture.1
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