THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 OCTOBER 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005977017
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: October 2, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
2 October 1969
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WEST GERMANY
Brandt is pulling out all the stops in his pursuit of
the chancellorship. He has sent a personal message to Prime
Minister Wilson, asking London's help in his fight to get
full voting rights for the West Berlin Bundestag delegation.
Wilson could find it hard to say no to a fellow socialist,
even though until now his government has opposed such a
change in the status of Berlin's deputies.
For what it is worth, a long-time East German contact
of the US Mission in Berlin says the East Berlin delegates
in the East German Volkskammer were allowed to vote and had
their votes counted "for the first time" when the Nonprolifer-
ation Treaty was voted on. This was "our gift to Brandt,"
he added.
USSR
The Soviets are preparing for a manned space flight
which may involve two Soyuz spacecraft in near-earth orbits.
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The Soyuz mission last January involved the ren-
dezvous and docking of two manned spacecraft and the trans-
fer of crew members from one craft to another. The upcoming
mission may include further progress toward establishing a
near-earth space station.
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USSR - COMMUNIST CHINA
The tone of Soviet treatment of China's 20th anniversary
dramatizes earlier evidence that Moscow wants talks on border
problems. In contrast, for example, to last year's cold and
terse message to the Chinese people on their national day,
this year's congratulations are conciliatory, asserting a de-
sire for normalization of relations and settlement of vexing
problems by means of negotiations. The Soviets may even in-
tend such phrases to signal anticipation of talks.
For their part, the Chinese yesterday published an au-
thoritative editorial referring to their desire for settle-
ment of border disputes through negotiations. This merely
reiterates China's official position, but its timing could
be an indicator that talks are in prospect.
LEBANON-USSR
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BOLIVIA
The Bolivians are continuing to talk of the need for an
"ideological confederation" with Peru. They are getting very
little encouragement indeed from Lima, and Foreign Minister
Mercado is on record as saying that the "Peruvian revolution
is not for export." Apparently the Peruvians fear that too
close an identification with Bolivia will hinder their own
efforts to appear more respectable.
ARGENTINA
The Ongania government has been finding itself caught
more and more often between the only two
that matter in Argentina: labor and the
last four months there has been a series
ing three general strikes, and each time
political forces
military. Over the
of strikes, includ-
the government has
had trouble keeping the situation in hand. Last weekend it
headed off yet another general strike, but it did so only by
threatening to move against the unions if the strike came off
and then by offering them a substantial wage increase.
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The military is watching this sparring with increasing
distaste--a distaste enhanced by the fact that it has occa-
sionally been called on to perform unpalatable police work
against the strikers. The unions of course are still strong-
holds of Peronism, and labor's new militancy would raise the
army's hackles for this reason alone. But in addition, labor
unrest could jeopardize the economic reform dear to the hearts
of the generals.
Ongania still has a good deal going for him; things are
not really out of control, and in any case there is nobody
at the moment of comparable stature to whom the military
could turn. If he cannot keep the unions in line, however,
the army is likely to start looking a bit harder for a re-
placement.
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