WEEKLY SUMMARY

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• Publication Date: February 3, 1967
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DIRECTORATE OF
INTELLIGENCE
WEEKLY SUMMARY
State Dept. review completed
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3 February 1967
No. 0275/67
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(Information as of noon EST, 2 February 1967)
VIETNAM
Hanoi is emphasizing a new formulation on its willing-
ness to talk with the US without suggesting any change
in its basic four-point demands for a peaceful settle-
ment. In South Vietnam, Chief of State Thieu sounds
more and more like a candidate for the presidency as
the Constituent Assembly debates the proposed consti-
tutional division of power between the executive and
the legislature. Although there were no significant
Viet Cong attacks this week, US Marines operating in
the northern coastal provinces fought a series of
sharp engagements with enemy troops.
COMMUNIST CHINA
The Maoists are showing alarm at the lack of solidar-
ity in their own camp, and some military leaders have
again come under attack in Red Guard posters. Peking
has admitted the existence of strong opposition in
several provinces.
PEKING MOUNTS NEW ANTI-SOVIET CAMPAIGN
Reacting to recent Soviet attempts to ridicule the
"cultural revolution," the Chinese Communists provoked
an incident in Moscow and used it as a pretext for mas-
sive demonstrations against the Soviet Embassy in Pe-
king.
SINO-PORTUGUESE AGREEMENT ON MACAO
Lisbon's capitulation has accorded Peking virtually
de facto control over the colony.
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Europe
FRENCH GAULLISTS MAY LOSE GROUND IN MARCH ELECTIONS
Dissension in the government camp and voter indecision
are tempering somewhat the Gaullists' anticipation of
a sweeping victory in the legislative elections on 5
March.
EAST GERMANS REACT STRONGLY TO BONN'S EAST EUROPE DEMARCHE
Bonn's now accelerating efforts to establish diplomatic
relations with Eastern European countries have elicited
an angry response from East Germany.
MOSCOW PUTTING NEW PRESSURE ON INTELLECTUALS
Presumably in preparation for the Writers Congress sched-
uled to begin on 22 May, Soviet authorities are intensi-
fying pressures on the liberal intellectual community to
conform to conventional Soviet standards of expression.
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Middle East - Africa
EGYPT BOMBS SAUDI ARABIAN TOWN
Egyptian bombing of a Saudi border town last week,
which was witnessed by foreign newsmen, was probably
intended to deter the Saudis from supporting any re-
newed royalist campaigning in Yemen. However, it will
only serve to increase pressures on King Faysal to re-
taliate.
ISRAEL AND SYRIA MEET AGAIN ON DEMILITARIZED ZONE DISPUTE 22
Although UN officials are encouraged by the fact that
the two countries are meeting at all, neither side
seemed prepared at the meetings on 29 January and 2
February to alter its position sufficiently to facil-
itate a settlement.
PROSPECTS FOR CONGO - UNION MINIERE AGREEMENT DETERIORATE 22
Mobutu's announcement of a consortium to run the copper
industry has proved to be premature and there has been
a confrontation over the departure of Union Miniere
employees.
MOROCCAN KING TO VISIT THE UNITED STATES
When he arrives on 9 February he will want to review
with US officials his concern over the influx of arms
into Algeria and over Madrid's continued hold on
Spanish Sahara. His party is also likely to seek aid
for Moroccan agriculture.
NO PROGRESS IN NIGERIA
Feuding regional leaders are little closer to an even-
tual settlement despite their meeting in Ghana last
month. Prospects for agreement are further jeopard-
ized by new pressures from minority tribes for the
creation of new Nigerian states.
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VIETNAM
Hanoi is pushing the line
that it might be willing to hold
talks with the United States if
the air strikes against North
Vietnam were stopped uncondi-
tionally.
The hint was dropped this
week in language which stopped
short of a specific commitment
to talk. Foreign Minister Ngu-
yen Duy Trinh told newsmen on
28 January that if the US "really
wants talks, it must first halt
unconditionally the bombing
raids and all other acts of war
against the DRV." In an earlier
press conference last month,
Mai Van Bo, head of the North
Vietnamese delegation in Paris,
had hinted at the same approach.
This marks the first effort
by official Hanoi spokesmen, in
a systematic and consistent
manner, to separate specific
North Vietnamese demands for
"talks" with the US from their
more extensive four-point de-
mands for a peaceful settlement.
There is no evidence to
suggest that the North Vietnam-
ese have changed these basic
demands for a peaceful settle-
ment. Their newest formulation,
however, hinting at a willing-
ness to "talk," appears at a
minimum to be an effort to ex-
tricate themselves from their
hard-line osition on a peaceful
solution.
Preparations for South Viet-
nam's future constitutional gov-
ernment are becoming an increas-
ingly important issue in current
politics.
One of the major problems is
for the military to agree on a
candidate for president. Chief
of State Thieu has not committed
himself as a candidate either
publicly or privately, but in-
creasingly is giving the impres-
sion that he may seek the presi-
dency. While Premier Ky was
conducting a successful tour of
Australia and New Zealand last
week, General Thieu was making
a widely publicized visit to the
delta provinces, speaking to a
variety of civilian and military
groups and doling out welfare
funds and land titles. Early
this week, he held a major re-
ception for the press in Saigon,
and his remarks suggested a
strong effort to identify
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himself with the potentially popu-
lar campaign issues of peace and
anticorruption, and thus a bid to
become the military's candidate.
In view
of the steady progress being
made, it does not appear that the
current resentment of the assem-
blymen will reach serious propor-
tions. Their relations with gov-
ernment leaders, however, may
have further ups and downs as
the constitution is formulated.
Operation CEDAR FALLS
Meanwhile, the Constituent
Assembly is beginning to decide
can the division of power between
the executive and legislative
branches of the future government.
The assembly's working draft,
prepared by one of its subcommit-
tees, is weighted in favor of a
relatively powerful legislature.
however, the military leaders of
the present government, who appear
to be adopting the viewpoint of
potential executives, have made
it clear that they desire a more
nearly even division of authority..
Recent public criticism of
the assembly's draft along these
lines has irritated some of the
assembly delegates, since they
suspect that the government in-
stigated it.
A 20-day multibattalion al-
lied sweep, Operation CEDAR FALLS,
whose objective was to deny a
major sanctuary to the Viet Cong
in Binh Duong Province north of
Saigon, was brought to a close
last week. At times it included
as many as 25 US and ARVN battal-
ions.
Miles of tunnels, caves,
and bunkers laboriously dug by
the guerrillas over the past 20
years were explored and system-
atically destroyed. In addition,
more than 6,000 civilian in-
habitants were relocated to areas
under government control. Six
hundred weapons and nearly
400,000 pages of documents were
seized as well as a record amount
of rice--more than 3,700 tons--
enough to feed over 10,000 com-
bat troops for a full year.
Communist losses included 720
killed, 210 captured, and 512
suspects apprehended. American
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casualties for this operation--
the largest of the Vietnam war--
totaled 72 killed and 377 wounded.
Otherwise, a series of sharp
engagements between allied and
Communist forces in the central
and northern coastal provinces
highlighted the past week's mili-
tary activity in South Vietnam.
Heavy fighting erupted on 26
January between three US Marine
companies and a Viet Cong/North
Vietnamese Army (NVA) force esti-
mated at battalion size during
Operation TUSCALOOSA 20 miles
southwest of Da Nang in Quang Nam
Province. In Quang Ngai Province,
on 30 January, battalion-strength
US Marine elements participating
in search-and-destroy Operation
DESOTO encountered stiff resist-
ance from an enemy force en-
trenched in strong defensive po-
sitions 25 miles south of Quang
Ngai city.
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With the exception of abor-
tive attacks on 28 January against
two South Vietnamese paramilitary
outposts in the delta province
of Dinh Tuong no significant Com-
munist military initiatives oc-
curred last week.
There continued to be indi-
cations, however, of a concerted
enemy effort to resupply and re-
inforce NVA units operating in
the area of northern Quang Tri
Province and the Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ). Troop sightings,
coupled with recently intensified
enemy reconnaissance and harass-
ment of allied forces, may fore-
shadow large-scale offensive ac-
tivity against allied positions
along the DMZ prior to the 8-12
February new year truce.
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