CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: March 28, 1968

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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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CONTENTS
Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
Panama: Opposition Delvalle "government" fails
to marshall widespread public support. (Page 3)
Poland: An uneasy calm prevails among the students,
while intraparty maneuvering intensifies. (Page 4)
Czechoslovakia - Eastern Europe: Developments in
Prague are being criticized, especially by Pankow.
(Page 5)
Indonesia: President Suharto (Page 7)
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North Vietnam: Hanoi is apparently taking steps
to gird the country for a crucial period of fighting in
the coming months.
In an editorial on 24 March, Hanoi strongly urged
the North Vietnamese people to rededicate themselves
to the war effort and to make an all out effort to sup-
port the cause in the South. Hanoi said the Tet of-
fensive has placed a new obligation on the people of the
North for additional support. "Now is the time," it
said, "to concentrate all our forces" and devote "every-
thing to the struggle." The editorial attempted to con-
vey a sense of urgency by describing the war in the
South as having reached a "new situation" and a "new
phase."
The themes are not new, but references to "mobiliz-
ing" troops and people suggest that a special effort is
under way to provide additional manpower for Commu-
nist forces in South Vietnam.
South Vietnam: A newly infiltrated North Viet-
namese regiment carried out the assault on US Army
troops near Kontum city on 26 March, according to a
prisoner and captured documents.
The prisoner and the documents refer to the unit
as the 209th Regiment. The arrival of a new regiment
in western Kontum has been detected in intercepted
messages. The regiment's communications patterns
suggest that it has replaced the 1st Division's 32nd
Regiment which recently moved southward from the
central highlands.
To the south, enemy forces in Hau Nghia Province
may be preparing for new attacks. The scale and dura-
tion of engagements with the enemy in the last four
days,
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a, significant Communist
build-up in this area. A low-level South Vietnamese
agent report has identified Hau Nghia as the starting
point for an offensive against the capital to take place
in late March or early April.
Meanwhile, South Vietnamese Army forces, re-
sponding to IV Corps commander General Thang's call
for more aggressive behavior, are pressing sweep
operations throughout the delta. In major engagements
in both Ba Xuyen and Dinh Tuong provinces on 26-
27 March, South Vietnamese units killed 146 Viet Cong.
Near the Demilitarized Zone, elements of the US
1st Air Cavalry Division accounted for 66 enemy dead
in a day-long battle east of Quang Tri city, while US
Marine patrols operating northeast of Khe Sanh beat
back an estimated company-size North Vietnamese
force.
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*Panama.; The opposition camp appears to be in a
state of confusion following ineffective efforts to mar-
shall widespread support for the Delvalle "government. "
Thus far, National Union (NU) supporters have
been unable to arouse public fervor for scheduled dem-
onstrations, and attempts to promote a nationwide gen-
eral strike have faltered.
In a televised speech yesterday, "President" Del-
valle castigated the National Guard for "unjustified acts
of violence" and urged Panamanians to support his en-
deavors to ensure free and just elections. Delvalle
stated that he would "redouble" efforts to convene a
special session of the National Assembly and to revise
the electoral code, but he did not mention any specific
plans to confront the Guard again.
In view of the strong military backing of the Robles
government, NU leaders would appear to have little
alternative but to await a Supreme Court ruling on the
legality of Robles' impea I as ' I . ' ody
reconvenes next Monday.
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Poland: An uneasy calm prevails among the
students, while intraparty maneuvering appears to be
intensifying.
Hard-line party elements are sustaining the ten-
sion with a continuing barrage of anti-Jewish and anti-
intellectual propaganda. More than a score of scape-
goats for the recent unrest, mostly university pro-
fessors, some of them Jews, have been fired. Ad-
ditional ousters of liberal academicians probably will
inflame militant students, who are dissatisfied with the
regime's response to their grievances. Some students
reportedly plan to protest the academic dismissals at
a rally today.
A conference in Warsaw of provincial party first
secretaries on 26 March is evidence of the continuous
activity at the top reaches of the party. The meeting
may signal the imminence of a reported central com-
mittee plenum.
Gomulka's position within the party politburo is
secure at the moment, although his ability to maneuver
contending forces within the party central committee
is less sure. He may no longer be in sole charge of
policymaking.
Changes in the top leadership probably will result
from the events of the past month. They may, how-
ever, be put off until the party congress near the end
of the year, provided there is no renewal of public
violence.
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Czechoslovakia - Eastern Europe: A number of
Czechoslovakia's allies, led by East Germany, have
criticized developments in Prague.
In a bitter attack on 26 March, East German
politburo member Kurt Hager publicly assailed Czech-
oslovak "renewers" and "modern Marxist revisionists."
He also directly attacked Josef Smrkovsky, a leading
proponent of "democratization."
The East Germans are attempting to influence in-
ternal changes in Czechoslovakia and to slow down any
revamping of Czechoslovak foreign policy. Hager's
attack suggests that Dubcek was unable at the Dresden
meeting last weekend to allay Pankow's fear that Prague
will pay less attention to its interests. Hager drew an
explicit connection between the "attitude assumed by
Smrkovsky and others" with alleged attempts by West
Germany to "isolate" East Germany from its Commu-
nist neighbors.
Czechoslovakia has protested both to the East German
ambassador and, in an unprecedented move, to the
East Germany party leadership in Pankow. Numerous
Czechoslovak organizations had already rejected for-
eign criticism. The exchange undoubtedly will lead to
a further deterioration of Czechoslovak - East German
relations.
For the second time in a week, the Hungarian
party endorsed Czechoslovak developments, but also
expressed concern. Zoltan Komoscin, the leading
ideologist of the Hungarian party, emphasized a parallel
between the situation in Hungary in 1956 and that in
Czechoslovakia now. He warned that the Czech party
must overcome the "anarchistic endeavors" of both the
"conservative forces" within the party and the "nation-
alist, rightist forces" which idealize the "bourgeois
republic" of the pre - World War II era.
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In what amounts to an indirect reply to foreign
criticism, Dubcek remarked on the Dresden meeting
in a 26 March interview. He noted that there had been
"considerable interest" about Czechoslovakia, with
concern expressed lest "antisocialist" elements par-
ticipate in the democratization process. He said that
"all our friends"--rather than all participants�wished
Czechoslovakia "success" and endorsed fully what has
been done. Dubcek's remarks suggest that Prague in-
tends to continue its reforms.
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NOTE
Indonesia: The Indonesian Congress yesterday
unanimously appointed Suharto full president for five
years, but called for congressional elections in three
years instead of a five-year postponement. It also
placed some limitations on the emergency powers
granted Suharto two years ago. The compromise
package, in which the army-dominated government
yielded on some of its demands to the civilian-dominated
Congress, should temporarily appease those elements
who have been concerned over the army's predominance.
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