CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: May 29, 1968
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Central Intelligence Bulletin
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No. 0168/68
29 May 1968
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
South Vietnam: Situation report. (Page 1)
France: Student efforts to develop greater soli-
darity with the workers apparently are succeeding.
(Page 2)
Communist China: Violent fighting is still going
on in certain areas. (Page 5)
Japan: The elections will keep the Swordfish con-
troversy alive. (Page 7)
Senegal: Students protest government policies.
Page 8)
Surinam: Minister-President Pengel has approved a
report urging "rapid" independence. (Page 9)
Czechoslovakia: Factional struggle (Page 10)
Czechoslovakia: Consumer goods (Page 10)
Egypt: Soviet destroyers (Page 10)
Iceland: Anti-NATO demonstrations (Page 11)
UN-UK-Rhodesia: Compromise possible (Page 11)
Peru: Mirage fighters (Page 11)
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C South Vietnam: Moderate to heavy Communist
pressure was reported yesterday in several areas
of the country.
South of the Demilitarized Zone, US Marines
fought a series of engagements near Dong Ha, killing
168 North Vietnamese of the 320th Division, which
had already suffered heavy :Losses in this area on
26 May. At Khe Sanh, elements of the enemy 304th
Division made two unsuccessful probes of the camp's
perimeter. In southern I Corps, a strong enemy
force launched a mortar and ground attack on Hau
Duc District Headquarters, causing heavy losses to
civilian lives and homes.
Enemy activity in the western highlands was
limited to shelling in Kontum Province, with the
purpose of neutralizing allied support positions
around the Ben Het/Dak To complex and the Polei
Kleng base.
Further random shelling of Saigon yesterday,
together with sharp clashes to the west and north
of the city with elements of three enemy regiments,
provides further evidence that the Communists intend
to maintain forces close to the city in anticipation
of a major effort later.
There are indications of mixed public reaction
to the recent Communist harassment of the capital.
Many citizens have been spurred to greater resist-
ance to the Communists and are requesting arms
for self-defense. Others, however, are reportedly
displaying fear, confusion, and doubt about allied
strength. (Map) I
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I France: Student efforts to develop greater
solidarity with the workers apparently are succeed-
ing despite opposition by the Communists.
A large number of workers were among the es-
timated 40,000 in the demonstration called by the
National Student Union on 27 May. By participating,
dissident militants of the Communist-led General
Confederation of Labor (CGT) defied their leader-
ship, which has maintained its distance from the
student movement and had specifically ordered its
members not to join the manifestation.
Although the CGT and the French Communist
Party publicly frame their objections to student ac-
tions in terms of a desire to avoid provocations
that could jeopardize the interests of the workers,
both the party and the CGT apparently still fear a
militant movement they cannot control. France's two
major non-Communist unions have embraced the student
movement, both to prove their own militancy and to
increase their appeal to younger workers.
The demonstration itself represented another
successful student challenge to the government, which
had to back down on its earlier suspension of the
right of public assembly. Neither the government's
promise to set up a commission of eminent university
members to study the educational system nor the res-
ignation of Minister of Education Alain Peyrefitte
is likely to appease the students. The acting pres-
ident of the National Student Union immediately dis-
missed Peyrefitte's departure as insignificant and
made clear that the problem lay with the entire gov-
ernment and not one ministry.
Meanwhile, the nationwide rejection by strik-
ers of the "protocole d'accord" negotiated by union,
business, and government leaders has once again
forced labor chiefs to scurry to get ahead of the
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not to be outflanked by its militants. All of the
unions are now emphasizing that the accord was not
a signed contract. The Workers' Force, however, the
most progovernment of the major unions, may direct
its most dependable leaders to urge negotiations at
the local level The CGT is sta in a demonstration
today to support the strikers.
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Communist China: Quarreling factions are still
fighting violently in some hard-core problem areas.
Szechwan continues to be the most troubled prov-
ince. The list of places plagued with "armed strug-
gle" in the past month covers most of the province.
Since at least mid-March, Szechwan leaders have been
in Peking with central authorities trying unsuccess-
fully to settle the Szechwan problem. In Tibet, the
two major Red Guard factions have been fighting al-
most daily in clashes that occasionally embroil mili-
tary units.
Disorder in Kwangsi Province, which declined
during March, appears to have again reached a level
of violence comparable to last year's peak. Much of
the fighting is taking place in large cities on the
main railroad to Vietnam. F_ I
The relative quiet that prevailed in Canton ear-
lier this year has given way to a renewal of open
street warfare betwe "radical" and "conservative"
Red Guard factions.
Harassing of electric workers and bus drivers
by "radical" Red Guards has apparently led to cur-
tailment of bus service and the supply of electricity
in Canton. Service on one bus line resumed last week
only after the army agreed to furnish three guards
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per bus. Nevertheless, much normal business contin-
ues to be going on. The heavily guarded interna-
tional trade fair which ended last week was not dis-
rupted and, while fighting was taking place in one
part of the city on 22 and 23 May, routine parades
in support of French students were held in another
part. (Map)
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Japan: Forthcoming upper house elections will
keep the controversy centering on the US nuclear-
powered submarine Swordfish an active political is-
sue.
The Japan Socialist Party, in an election cam-
paign gambit, has threatened "to use force" to pre-
vent the entry of any more US nuclear-powered craft.
Party spokesmen have also seized upon statements
made by the panel of Japanese scientists investi-
gating the alleged radioactive contamination to at-
tack the credibility of US findings. The panel was
chaired by a long-time member of the Communist Party.
US experts maintain that the Swordfish was not re-
sponsible for the abnormal radioactivity readings
taken in Sasebo harbor on 6 May.
Distorted press accounts continue to support
leftist charges by playing up allegations that US
experts have not fully cooperated with the panel of
Japanese scientists. Growing popular concern is
reflected in resolutions adopted on 28 May by the
city governments of Sasebo and Yokosuka calling for
a ban on visits by nuclear-powered submarines to
their two cities, the sites of US Navy bases.
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Senegal Students have joined the growing cho-
rus of protest against government policies.
The French-administered University of Dakar has
been paralyzed since 27 May by a student strike grow-
ing out of a month-long campaign by a leftist student
group protesting changes in government scholarship
policy. The government's refusal on 26 May to con-
cede to demands of the group sparked a general pro-
test at the university--traditionally a hotbed of
leftist turbulence in Senegal--and demonstrations in
several lycees. The Dakar students were apparently
emboldened by the recent student activity in France.
Thus far, the national labor union, which aban-
doned its shaky alliance with the government to ex-
press its grievances publicly in a May Day demonstra-
tion, has refused to support the students, charging
that nonstudent elements are involved in the strike.
The use of force to quell the student disturbances,
however, could cause the union to reverse its posi-
tion.
Economic difficulties will add to President
Senghor's problems in dealing with the growing dis-
satisfaction. Senegal's peanut crop, the country's
major export, was not as large as expected and must
be marketed at. depressed world prices. This has al-
ready been a major strain on the budget and will
make labor and student demands hard to meet.
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Surinam: Minister-President Johan Pengel's
National Party of Surinam (NPS) has approved a re-
port urging "rapid" independence for Surinam.
The report recommends dominion status, with
the Queen of the Netherlands as head of state. The
report also says that Surinam should be represented
in selected Netherlands embassies, including one in
a Soviet-bloc country. Economic independence, how-
ever, is not essential, the report continues, and
the Dutch can be expected to continue aid to Surinam
as long as it is needed.
Pengel has long favored independence, but he
has followed a go-slow policy, in part to avoid
antagonizing both his partners in the fragile gov-
erning coalition and those members of his own party
who oppose loosening ties with the Netherlands. The
policy adopted by the NPS may further strain the
coalition and could force Pengel to call for new elec-
tions. It also seems sure to antagonize Surinam's
large East Indian population--some two fifths of
the 360,000 total--who want no part of an independ-
ent Surinam under Pengel's Creole-based rule.
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Czechoslovakia: The factional struggle within
the party may move toward a climax during the cen-
tral committee plenum that begins today. Party
liberals, who have continued publicly to call on
conservatives to resign and to press for the early
convening of an extraordinary party congress, may
attempt to force the factional issue at the plenum
itself. While the conservatives doubtless will
maneuver actively, moderate party leader Dubcek
indicated again this week that he will continue
his attempt to seek compromise solutions on out-
standing issues. Moscow, which has made known it
wants Dubcek to rein in outspoken liberals, is
likely to determine its next moves on the outcome
of the plenum.
Czechoslovakia: The leadership has signifi-
cantly altered economic plans by reducing emphasis
on heavy industry largely in order to benefit the
consumer. Recently announced sharp cutbacks in
long-range production goals for steel, power, and
coal are designed to release more resources for
production of food and consumer goods. In announc-
ing the cuts, Premier Cernik explained that invest-
ment funds had been used excessively for heavy in-
dustry.
Egypt: Cairo recently returned two of its four
Skoryy-class destroyers to the USSR, apparently in
exchange for two modified Skoryys that arrived in
Alexandria on 15 April. The Egyptians have also
returned a W-class submarine to the USSR and are
expected to receive their sixth R-class submarine
in exchange.
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Iceland: Communists and other anti-NATO el-
ements are planning a major propaganda effort that
may lead to some violence at the time of the NATO
ministerial conference in Reykjavik on 24-26 June.
The Communist daily paper has called for demonstra-
tions, and some students at the university where
the meeting will be held may stage a sit-in the week
before. During a protest on 26 May against the visit
to Reykjavik of naval elements assigned to NATO,
demonstrators showed an unusual willingness to resort
to violence. US officials in Iceland, however, be-
lieve the security forces can cope with any likely
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UN-UK-Rhodesia: Britain's UN representative
is cautiously optimistic that agreement can be
reached this week in the UN Security Council on a
new resolution providing for wider sanctions on
trade, travel, and investment in Rhodesia. For
ten weeks, negotiations have been deadlocked over
Afro-Asian insistence that all UN members except
the UK withdraw their consular and trade represen-
tatives from Rhodesia and sever postal and telecom-
munication links. The UK representative believes
the Afro-Asians may now be ready to accept a com-
promise calling for the withdrawal of consulates
with no mention of telecommunications.
Peru: _Mirage aircraft on order
from France arrived at Chicla o Air Force Base
A team of French technicians, who are to
assemble the planes and train Peruvians in their
maintenance, is also reportedly at the base, about
400 miles north of Lima, and more technicians are
expected soon. Air minister General Gagliardi plans
to display the assembled aircraft on 23 July, Peru's
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