THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 JUNE 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976186
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 10
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 6, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
6 JUNE 1968
1. South Vietnam
. France
3. Iran -
Saudi Arabia
the police seem to be operating effec-
tively despite the loss of top person-
nel on Sunday.
Major Nguyen Mau, the new Saigon
police chief, is a capable officer.
He still has to prove himself to his
men, but he is moving vigorously and
he is giving close personal direction
in the field, particularly in Cholon.
Police morale is good
Postal and transport workers are
expected to return to work today, but
other key sectors of industry and com-
merce remain strikebound.
Looking forward to the elections,
the French Communists expect to out-
poll the Federation of the Left and
become the undisputed leaders of
France's left-wing opposition. The
Communists, however, face dissension
in their party and privately concede
that it probably will be De Gaulle who
emerges with the final victory.
The Shah and Faysal met briefly
in Jidda on Monday. The meeting was
cordial. Each ruler presented his case
on territorial disputes and the median
line question--who gets what oil in
the Persian Gulf. Although no solid
agreements were reached, this meeting
may help stabilize Gulf problems until
the two men meet again later this year.
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4. Indonesia
5. West Germany -
Soviet Union
Communist guerrilla activity in
East Java is of growing concern to
Suharto.
East Java is a traditional Com-
munist redoubt. The people are poor,
the government unpopular, and the
rugged, jungle-clad hills ideal for
guerrillas.
guerrillas are
beginning to make their presence felt,
raiding small outposts and assassin-
ating village officials.
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6. South Korea
7. Yugoslavia
8. Arab States -
Israel
Pak's ability to control faction-
alism within his own party will be
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for a third term in 1971 and Kim wants
to run himself. Kim has a substantial
following in the party and could be a
problem unless Pak finds a face-saving
path to reconciliation.
The student unrest which began
earlier this week in Belgrade is spread-
ing to other cities. It also is de-
veloping antiregime overtones. Tuesday
night demonstrations broke out in Sara-
jevo.
Defiant students still hold some
university buildings in Belgrade; there
are demands that government officials
be dismissed. One student was seen
carrying a placard with the slogan,
"Down with the Red Bourgeoisie:" (pre-
sumably well-off Communist bureaucrats).
The government is moving cautious-
ly now, but is likely to start cracking
heads if things keep going downhill.
King Husayn told Ambassador Symmes
yesterday that the Soviet ambassador to
Jordan had warned of Israeli plans to
occupy Jordanian territory. The Soviet
ambassador claimed his information came
from "good sources." Similar Soviet
"warnings" to the Arabs last year helped
to precipitate the events that culmin-
ated in the June war. Such warnings al-
so play on fears already high in Jordan.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
.) 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
6 June 1968
NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Liberation Front to Open Paris Office: The
Communists are finally moving ahead on the estab-
lishment of a Liberation Front office in Paris,
after delaying for several months.
The relatively low level of these individuals
suggests that they are working personnel coming to
open the office and serve as the press staff. It is
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excuse the Communists have used all these months
for not opening the office is that they have not
decided who should head it.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Comment on Kennedy Shooting: Hanoi radio was
quick to react to the shooting of Senator Kennedy.
In a broadcast yesterday morning over its domestic
service in Vietnamese, it gave some of the details
of the assassination attempt and of Senator Kennedy's
background, at one point calling him "the most re-
doubtable political opponent of Johnson in the Demo-
cratic Party." The broadcast concluded with the
comment that the attack "again clearly shows the
hideous, true face of US society, full of crimes and
injustice. In the race for position and interests,
the ruling cliques, representing the various fac-
tions of the US monopoly capitalist class, have not
hesitated to resort to bloodshed and fire to liqui-
date one another."
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