CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: July 24, 1967
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DIRECTORATE OF
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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24 July 1967
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: Election council approves 48 ten-man lists
for senate campaign. (Page 1)
Egypt: Nasir ready to try formulating common Arab
policy toward Israel. (Page 3)
Hong Kong - Communist China: Communists apparently
reassessing situation. (Page 7)
Egypt-Israel: UNTSO negotiations (Page 9)
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*Vietnam: (Information as of 4:30 AM EDT)
Political Developments in South Vietnam: The cen-
tral election council has approved 48 lists of ten men
each for the 3 September senate election.
The 4. 5- to 5-million voters who are expected to
go to the polls will thus be required to pick out six of
the 48 different upper house lists as well as one of the
11 presidential tickets.
ccorcing to the
Embassy, the outcome of the election is apt to depend
on which lists the leading presidential candidates support,
on the degree of support from political and religious or-
ganizations, and on the names the public can recognize on
the tickets.
It appears that the senate will be the voice of Saigon,
a representation of political leaders presently serving the
government in one form or another, of the religious sects,
and of the splintered political parties. The lower house,
on the other hand, will be the more broadly representative
of the elected bodies, since its approximately 130 mem-
bers will be elected directly from the provinces and the
autonomous cities on the basis of population. The date of
the lower house election is not yet firm. The Directorate
recently decided to recommend that the Provisional Na-
tional Assembly move it up from 5 November to 22 Octo-
ber.
The Military Situation in South Vietnam: The ground
war in South Vietnam resumed a familiar pattern over the
weekend with sharp enemy contacts reported in the west-
ern highlands and in the northern I Corps area.
In the western highlands on 23 July, two companies of
the US 4th Infantry Division participating in Operation
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FRANCIS MARION killed 124 North Vietnamese Army
soldiers six miles southeast of Duc Co in Pleiku Prov-
ince. The US troops lost 20 killed and 41 wounded.
To the north in I Corps, US Marines killed 38
enemy troops in two sharp clashes below the Demilita-
rized Zone. The Marines, conducting Operation KING-
FISHER, lost 25 killed and 64 wounded. In one of the
actions a US patrol was hit by 120 rounds of enemy mor-
tar fire.
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*Egypt: Nasir indicated yesterday that he is ready
to try to formulate a common Arab policy toward Israel.
"We must go to the summit conference," he said in
his speech on the 15th anniversary of Egypt's revolution.
Previously, when King Husayn urged such a conference,
Nasir had claimed it would be counterproductive because
of the split within Arab ranks over whether or not to seek
an accommodation with Israel. He apparently judged that
the hard-line advocated by Syria and Algeria's Boumediene
would be irreconcilable with the more moderate approach
Husayn favors and which Nasir has been inclined to support.
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It is unlikely that he has persuaded the hard-liners to
moderate their stand, just as it is doubtful that they have
won him over to their uncompromising viewpoint. The call
for a summit meeting, thus, could be an act of despair. On
the other hand, if he had decided on how next to move to-
ward an accommodation with Israel, he may hope to win
wider support for his plans at the summit.
In his speech, Nasir spoke in well-worn terms about
continuing the struggle against "Israeli-imperialist" forces,
and of Arab determination to "preserve the rights of the
people of Palestine." He advocated "popular resistance"
and cited Vietnamese Communist successes, in addition to
acknowledging the need for reorganization of the armed
forces. He also said there were political and economic
ways of "preventing imperialism from achieving its aims."
The real aim of the "imperialist- Zionist aggression,"
he claimed, was "to destroy the socialist revolution in
Egypt." Strengthening of "the internal front" was, there-
fore, a basic requirement. He indicated that this would
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involve austerity and a rejuvenation of his political or-
ganization, the .Arab Socialist Union.
Nasir rehearsed his grievances against the US, re-
ferring again to the charges that US aircraft and the
Liberty had aided the Israelis. His principal complaint,
however, was that US counsels of restraint before the
war had been "a, diplomatic trick, a grave political de-
ception." He also accused the US of responsibility for
the inconclusive result in the UN General Assembly.
Nasir also said the Soviet ambassador, prior to the
war, had advised restraint and had warned of the great
danger a Middle East conflict would involve. Later in
the speech, however, he extolled the Soviet Union's po-
litical, economic, and materiel aid. In addition, he
praised France for its "moral stand."
* Because of the shortage of time for preparation of this item, the analytic
interpretation presented here has been produced by the Central Intelligence
Agency without the participation of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research,
Department of State or of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense.
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Hong Kong - Communist China: The Communist
apparatus in the Colony has apparently fallen back to
reassess the situation.
Although some small- scale terrorist activity is
still taking place, mob violence has diminished to the
vanishing point. Continued police raids against Com-
munist installations are meeting with almost no re-
sistance. An editorial in a local Communist news-
paper asserts that the government cannot win "final
victory" but admitted that the authorities have seized
the initiative "for the moment. "
The Chinese Communists continue to show re-
straint, According to the US consul general, British
military sources are optimistic over the reported re-
fusal by the Chinese Army to permit renewed demon-
strations at the border village which was the scene of
an armed clash on 8 July. Inflammatory anti- British
posters have reportedly been taken down at another bor-
der village, and trench digging on the Chinese side of
the frontier has stopped.
Peking propaganda broadcasts still fulminate
against alleged British "atrocities" in Hong Kong but
declare only that they will arouse still greater resist-
ance among the Chinese in the Colony. A memorandum
that was delivered to the British charge in Peking on
22 July complained that crewmen on British ships vis-
iting a number of Chinese ports had "insulted" Mao
but referred to the Hong Kong situation only in pass-
ing.
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Egypt-Israel: General Bull of the UN Truce Su-
pervision Organization (UNTSO) has obtained Egypt's
agreement in principle that there should be no mili-
tary activity on the Suez Canal. He seems certain to
encounter difficulty on this point in Tel Aviv, how-
ever, in view of Israel's sensitivity about current ac-
cess to the canal as a precedent affecting its perma-
nent transit rights through the waterway. UNTSO,
meanwhile, has overcome earlier Israeli resistance
to the placement of six rather than four observation
Hosts on each side and to the use of roving patrols.
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