THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 JANUARY 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976571
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 20, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
20 JANUARY 1969
1. Middle East
2. South Vietnam
Saturday the Soviet Foreign
Ministry called in US., 'British, and
French representatives to express
concern over reports that the Israelis
were about to launch large-scale at-
tacks on the Arab states. The Foreign
Ministry said it had received the in-
formation from the Ira .i Government on
13 Januar
The Communists attacked several US
installations today and raided the
town of Ban Me Thuot in the central
highlands. Most of the attacks were
by rocket or mortar, although there was
one abortive effort to overrun an AMeri7
can position near the Cambodian border.
The attack on Ban Me Thuot also was re-
pulsed.
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3. Czechoslovakia
Dubcek faces another potentially
dangerous situation. The student who
burned himself on Thursday in an anti-
Soviet protest died yesterday. There
had been student sympathy demonstra-
tions before his death, and more dis-
turbances with anti-Russian overtones
now seem likely. The government has
tried to head off trouble with appeals
to prudence.s. Thus far, there has been
no public reaction from the Soviets.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
2.) North Vietnamese Reflections of U S
Political Attitudes
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
20 January 1969
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
Polish Official to Visit?:_
the Polish for-
eign minister plans to visit Hanoi at the end of
this month. is arranging a special
flight on 28 January to take him from Phnom Penh to
Hanoi.
The American Embassy in Warsaw cannot confirm
this information. It notes that the vice foreign
minister left for a trip to the Near and Far East
on 17 January and speculates on the possibility
that the foreign minister may be planning to join
him later.
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International Antiwar Conference: Hanoi has
pledged full support for the proposed "Five Conti-
nents Anti-Imperialist International. Conference for
Support of Vietnam,"
A preparatory meeting
for the conference, which was proposed by the Japan-
ese party, will be held in Paris on 22 January, and
the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris talks
is prepared to assist the activities of this meet-
ing. The tentative date for the convening of the.
full conference is late February.
The source stated North Vietnam's interest in
an early convening date is based on its view that
the Paris talks have made poor progress in recent
months and on its desire to take propaganda advan-
tage.of any uncertainties in the early days of the
new. US. administration.
II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
. There is nothing.of significance to report
today.
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