CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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CONTENTS
Yemen: Current situation report. (Page 1)
Vietnam: Current situation report. (Page 3)
Greece: Fears developing that military coup will
ultimately aid extreme left. (Page 5)
Venezuela: Communists opt for united front tactics
rather than armed struggle. (Page 6)
Turkey: Opposition party splits (Page 7)
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*Yemen:
confrontation with the US over the continuing detention
of two US AID officials in Taiz.I
The arrest of the Americans�who are accused of
the 26 April attack on an Egyptian military camp--has
brought US-Yemeni relations close to the breaking
point. All US personnel except for a minimum staff
have already been evacuated from the US Embassy
branch office in Taiz, and the office of the US charg�
d'affaires in Sana has also been reduced. Ethiopian Air-
lines charter flights on 29 and 30 April removed most
Americans and their dependents, and final flights this
morning were to take out the last evacuees. A large
crowd appeared around the embassy in Sana this morn-
ing, but there has been no further violencej
IThe Yemeni interior minister announced to the press
on 29 April that an indictment against the two accused
Americans would be handed down on 30 April.
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: Heavy
fighting was reported yesterday between US Marines
and Communist forces in well-entrenched positions
in the western portion of northernmost Quang Tri
Province.
Sporadic fighting has been reported in this area--
northwest of Khe Sanh-- since the enemy attack against
a US Marine convoy along Route 9 on 25 April. Amer-
ican casualties yesterday were reported as 38 killed
and 94 wounded, raising the six-day cumulative total
to 78 killed and 197 wounded. Communist losses now
total more than 130 killed.
There has been an increasing number of intelligence
reports suggesting that Viet Cong terrorists and saboteurs
are planning attacks against selected targets on May Day
as well as on 19 May, Ho Chi Minh's birthday. Around
Saigon, they reportedly plan mortar attacks on Tan Son
Nhut airfield and against the port area and television sta-
tion. The Communists have often marked such holidays
with an increase of terrorism and sabotage. (Map)
Political Developments in South Vietnam: The draft
presidential law submitted for adoption by the Constituent
Assembly contains some apparently controversial pro-
visions.
The provision for a runoff election if no candidate ob-
tains a specified percentage of the total vote--reported
earlier to have been agreed upon by the drafting subcom-
mittee--was omitted from the final draft. The present
stipulation that the candidate with the most votes will be-
come president reflects the views of Premier Ky's sup-
porters and may prove objectionable to deputies who feel
it favors a military candidate.
Another provision requires candidates from the civil
service or military to take "leave without pay" unless
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they hold "popularly elected positions." The US Em-
bassy, however, does not believe this will bar Premier
Ky or Chief of State Thieu from running while retaining
their present posts.
Finally, the draft sets the presidential election for
"a Sunday in September." This stems from assembly
annoyance at the government's unilateral action in sched-
uling the contest for 1 September, a Friday.
Military Developments in North Vietnam: Seven US
aircraft were lost over the weekend as the Communists
continued to step up their air defense in response to the
intensified US air activity in the Hanoi/Haiphong area.
In an attempt to protect vital military and industrial
targets in this area, the North Vietnamese on 29-30 April
mounted their most sophisticated and well-coordinated
defense reaction to date. In addition to extremely heavy
antiaircraft fire and multiple surface-to-air missile
launchings, large flights of MIG-17 and MIG-21 aircraft
were encountered on at least six different occasions.
Three MIG-17s were shot down by US aircraft.
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Greece: No effective opposition to the military
coup has yet developed, but deep concern is develop-
ing in Athens over its possible end results.
Both liberal and conservative elements fear that
the military take-over could result in a sharp split
between the political forces of left and right which
� ultimately could work to the advantage of the extreme
left.
Interior Minister Pattakos has told Ambassador
Talbot that the establishment of a constitution drafting
commission may be announced soon. He refused to
comment on the time necessary for a redrafting of the
constitution, but said the commission would draw on
the experience of other states, including the US.
About 1,300 non-Communist political prisoners
have been released, but more than 5,000--most of
them Communists and Communist sympathizers--have
been or will be sent to an island detention center.
Press reports say the new regime has decided to dis-
solve the crypto-Communist United Democratic Left
party, the legal front for the Greek Communist Party
which has been outlawed since 1947. Plans are also
being made to ban youth wings of all the former major
political parties.
King Constantine appeared grim and uncomfortable
during his attendance at Easter midnight mass, and the
usual popular enthusiasm was lacking. [The next day,
however, he was well received at the traditional Easter
Day ceremonies.
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Venezuela: The central committee of the Venezuelan
Communist Party decided last month to abandon armed
struggle and adopt united front tactics
iiReports of this action, aimed at forming a coali-
tion of leftist Political parties in the 1968 elections, are
probably correct, but press releases by the party in-
dicate that considerable dissension still exists concern-,
ing the implementation and even the aims of this policy.:
,The dominant trend within the party for the past
year has been for a return to legal activities in prefer-
ence to armed insurrection. There are sharp differences
in interpretation of this policy, however. Some leaders
favor total and permanent abandonment of the armed
struggle, while others prefer adopting a mask of le-
gality to facilitate reorganizing the clandestine paramili-
tary apparatus. The central committee apparently was
unable to reconcile these varying views, even though
a majority of the leadership favors abandonment of vio-
lence.
Regardless of its new stress on legal political ac-
tivities, the party probably will attempt to maintain a
clandestine capability for armed action in order to fore-
stall further defections by hard-liners. i
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Turkey: The split in the opposition Republican
People's Party (RPP) further fragments the political
opposition in Turkey and strengthens the position of
the ruling Justice Party under Premier Demirel. Dis-
turbed over the party's increasing drift to the left,
48 "center-oriented" senators and deputies resigned
on 30 April, apparently because they faced possible ex-
pulsion at the hands of the "left-of-center" group in
control of party policy. The split will also narrow the
RPP's political base and may reduce its voter strength.
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