THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 JUNE 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976809
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: June 4, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
4 June 1969
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
EUROPE
The Bonn coalition seems to have reached a compromise
on whether or not to break relations with Cambodia. Under
a formula expected to receive final cabinet approval today,
the SPD can take comfort from the fact that the Hallstein
Doctrine has not been cited and that a formal break will
be avoided. On the other hand, Kiesinger will get his way
with the closing of the embassy in Phnom Penh and the re-
striction of aid to those projects already committed.
Cambodia will be free to make its own decision concerning
its embassy in Bonn; Phnom Penh's ambassador is also ac-
credited to France and resides in Paris.
SOVIET AFFAIRS
Czechoslovak conservatives have pressured Husak into
appointing hard-liner Lubomir Strougal to a newly created
post as his deputy. Since Strougal also heads the highest
party organ in the Czech portion of the country, he now be-
comes Husak's equal in everything but name. (Husak is a
Slovak) Other moves taken since the plenum last week also
suggest that Husak's position is weakening.
Moscow seems to have been giving Husak a chance to prove
himself, but it-is unlikely that the Soviets would stand in
the way of his replacement by Strougal, who is considered
thoroughly orthodox in their eyes.
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There is nothing significant to report on the Middle
East or Vietnam.
II. OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
BRAZIL
We understand the Costa e Silva government is greatly
irritated by press stories that the US has made public the
freeze on its aid programs for Brazil. The Brazilians say
the freeze--instituted after Brazil's turn toward authori-
tarianism last December--was "officially" surfaced in the
AID request to Congress. Its existence is widely known in
the Brazilian Government, but the Brazilians thought it
would be kept out of the public domain. Now they say they
will have to respond in some fashion, and their irritation
will color their reception for Governor Rockefeller.
CHILE
The negotiations between the Chilean Government and
Anaconda Copper promise to be difficult. President Frei is
pressing to acquire 4 controlling interest in the company's
'operations. He says that if he settles for anything less
than this, the Chilean legislature will nationalize the
company.
Anaconda has backed a good distance away from its ini-
tial intransigence, but it remains extremely reluctant to
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yield control of its operations. If nationalization does
become an issue, the company has attached a $900-million
price tag to its properties; the Chileans are thinking in
terms of the book value of $300 or $400 million.
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