THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 JANUARY 1969

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976587
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• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: January 28, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
28 January 1969
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I. MAJOR PROBLEMS
MIDDLE EAST
,The Annex today sets forth some of the problems
Jordan's King Husayn faces.
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EASTERN EUROPE BUDGETED MILITARY EXPINDITUREi
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EUROPE
Nothing of significance to report.
SOVIET AFFAIRS
All the Eastern European countries have announced
increased military budgets for 1969, most of them for
the fourth consecutive year. The increases, however,
are generally larger than in the past few years, rang-
ing from a low of nine percent for East Germany to more
than 20 percent for Rumania and Hungary, and almost 40
percent for Albania. The military budgets in all coun-
tries account for an equal or larger percentage of their
total budgets than in 1968.
?There is no evidence that the increases in military
spending are because of large-scale military buildups.
It is probable that the Warsaw Pact members are respond-
ing to Soviet pressures to bring their military capabilities
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up to previously planned levels. With the introduction
of economic reform and more realistic budget planning,
the understatement of military expenses may be coming
to an end. Other factors also may include higher real
costs from the use of more sophisticated equipment, the
effects of inflation, and the budgetary and price re-
forms.,
VIETNAM
A recent article by one of Hanoi's leading generals,
Chu Van Tan, is another in a series of recent attempts to
make party cadres understand that much hard fighting lies
ahead. Tan emphasized that North Vietnam's number one
priority is concentrating its energies and resources, in-
cluding manpower, in support of the struggle in South Viet-
nam. In criticizing local party leaders in the North, he
strongly suggested that many ,of them are not always putting
first things first.
Tan argued that only a persistent offensive strategy
will bring success. He-strongly criticized both the per-
formance of Communist forces in the South and their over-
reliance on support from the North. In one particularly
pointed passage, he observed that "to be worthy of the
rear base's [the North's] confidence, the front line [the ?
South] must ensure continuous, resounding victories, use
the aid of the rear base most rationally and economically,
and strive to help the rear base lessen its burden by car-
ing for, preserving, and developing its own forces."'
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We continue to receive information from prisoners
that the Communists intend to step up the level of their
military activity in early February, particularly in the
provinces around Saigon.
US Marine positions just below the Demilitarized
Zone were hit by Communist mortar rounds fired from within
the southern portion of the DMZ. This is the first re-
ported instance of Communist firing from positions within
the DMZ since 21 December.
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II. OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
PERU
The US-owned International Petroleum Company has
been told by the Peruvians that its remaining assets
will be seized unless it pays the $15 million debt it
allegedly owes by the end of this month.
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The highly nationalistic Velasco regime expro-
priated the Talara refinery and took over 4 company-
run oilfield last October.. It if does not take ap-
propriate steps to offer fair compensation by 9 April,
US law calls for the suspension of Peru's sugar-quota
and a cutoff of aicL
COMMUNIST CHINA
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Communist China, which had moderately successful
crops in 1968, now has ordered 3.7 million tons of
Australian and Canadian wheat to meet expected food
deficits in its urban areas. This about matches its
grain imports for last year, but falls considerably be-
low the 5-million-ton average which prevailed during
the early 1960s. These lower imports reflect in part
Peking's "back to the farm" program which has resulted
in tens of millions of city dwellers being sent to the
countryside where they must scrabble along with the
peasants for sustenance from local food production.
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THE FUTURE OF JORDAN
SIGNIFICANCE: Jordan, almost alone among the Arab states
involved in the present Arab-Israeli conflict, has mani-
fested a steadfast desire to maintain friendly relations
with the United States.
The king's efforts to combine loyal Arabism,
preservation of Jordan's national integrity, and mainte-
nance of Western ties have made his personal position in-
creasingly precarious, but his political agility has kept
him alive and in touch with the friends and foes who have
suffered Jordan to exist--so far. His departure could
lead to the partition of Jordan and the dissolution of
practically the only pro-American oasis in the Arab World.
The King is well aware of the possibility of assassi-
nation. His grandfather, King Abdullah, was murdered in
a' Jerusalem mosque. in 1950, and Husayn is acutely con-
scious :that he walks in his grandfather's footsteps. His
current conflicts with the Palestinian terrorists have in-
creased the possibility that some rabid Arab may put a bul-
let into Husayn.
Husayn has been in a dilemma over how to deal with
the terrorists, for whom Jordan is a major base of
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operations. Sympathy for the terrorists among the popu
lace and within the army has made it impossible for him
fully to put down terrorist activity despite the clear
fact that terrorist action out of Jordan only brings
quick and harsh retaliation from the Israelis. Husayn
has now come to a fragile truce NnTith the major terror-
ist organizations.r
Husayn still has a number of assets working
for him. He retains the loyalty of the Bedouin core of
the army, has demonstrated his skill in dealing with the
terrorists, and faces no-well-organized political opposi-
tion in the country. (
The King has been a long-time friend of the United
States. Jordan was one of the few Arab states that did
not break relations with Washington after the June 1967
war, and Husayn has consistently opposed pressures from
his army and within his government to tighten the country's
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relations with Moscow. Nevertheless, should it appear
to the Jordanians that the US is dragging its feet in
regard to our promised delivery of aircraft to the Jor-
danians, this could be the final straw that would turn
Husayn toward Moscow.
Husayn'S
legal_successor is his-youngest brother, Crown Prince
Hasan, an intelligent and perceptive Oxford graduate
of 21. Hasan takes his official position and possible
future thoughtfully, but has failed to demonstrate the
charismatic qualities which have. helped Husayn hold, his
throne this long.
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