CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Release Date: December 18, 2002
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• Publication Date: April 10, 1968
• Content Type: REPORT

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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10 April 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
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Philippines: President Marcos may modify his
country's role in Vietnam. (Page 6)
Lebanon: Election outcome (Page 7)
Chile: Frei to USSR (Page 7)
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Philippines- Domestic political difficulties and ex-
ternal events are leading President Marcos to modify
his country's role in Vietnam.
Appropriations for the Philippine civic action con-
tingent in Vietnam have been stalled in the Senate where
Marcos' opponents and those opposed to aid to Vietnam
have seized on the measure as the vehicle for a power
play against him.
Marcos' ability to force Senate passage of the ap-
propriations bill has been weakened by the furor attend-
ing recent disclosures of Philippine plotting against
Malaysian Borneo. In addition, various senators and
even Marcos himself have interpreted recent moves
toward talks as lessening the need for a continued
Philippine presence in Vietnam.
action cannot take place until after the Easter recess.
Marcos now appears willing to accept a program
which would substitute medical personnel for some of
the Filipino military engineers currently in Vietnam,
even though South Vietnam has impressed on Manila
that its priority need is for engineers. Congressional
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Lebanon-. The moderate right-wing Christian
leadership scored a noteworthy victory in the recent
parliamentary elections. The opposition to pro-
Egyptian former president Shihab now commands a
majority in the new parliament scheduled to convene
on 3 May and may promote a foreign policy less pro-
Egyptian than that of the last ten years. Despite some
pro-Shihab interference by the army during the elec-
tions, it is unlikely that the army will carry out pre-
vious threats to intervene openly in the government at
this time.
Chile-USSR. President Frei has accepted an in-
vitation to visit the USSR. No date has been announced.
The trip might be combined with visits to other coun-
tries. Frei probably would be able to get the consti-
tutionally required permission for this trip from the
Senate, which is controlled by a predominantly leftist
opposition and which vetoed his proposed trip to the
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