CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Publication Date: November 18, 1969
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INTELLIGENCE
Central Intelligence Bulletin
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18 November 1969
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No. 0276/69
18 November 1969
Central Intelligence Bulletin
CONTENTS
Vietnam: The Communists are heightening political
pressure on the Thieu government. (Page 1)
Phili iines: President Marcos made a clean sweep
in his successful bid for a second term. (Page 2)
Greece: The regime has announced discriminatory
press laws. (Page 3)
El Salvador: The government may request OAS assist-
ance in setting up an airlift. (Page 5)
Chile: University elections will affect all polit-
ical factions as the 1970 elections near. (Page 6)
India: Mrs. Gandhi wins again (Page 7)
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Vietnam: The Communists are heightening po-
litical pressure on the Thieu government.
Madame Binh, the chief Viet Cong negotiator
in Paris, has been quick to indicate that the Com-
munists could approve General "Big" Minh's call for
a referendum to determine the popular will in South
Vietnam if it were confined to the government-held
cities. Her remarks also tried to tailor Minh's
proposal to fit the Communist claim that South Viet-
nam's urban population is demanding Thieu's replace-
ment by a "peace cabinet."
In addition, there are signs that the Commu-
nists will try to foment street demonstrations
against Thieu. A recently dated document captured
in III Corps calls for an immediate increase in
political agitation in the cities and urges cadres
to look to the US example and concentrate on stu-
dents to get an antiwar movement going. It also
declares that any available issue such as taxes,
conscription, civil liberties, and the government's
new austerity import program should be exploited
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Philippines: President Marcos made a clean
sweep of all 66 provinces in his successful bid for
a second term.
His Nacionalista Party, in addition, has tight-
ened its control of Congress, winning seven of the
eight Senate seats being contested and taking 86 of
the 110 seats in the House. Liberal Party candidate
Osmena has with some justification labeled the elec-
tion the dirtiest in Philippine history, but even
without widespread voter coercion and vote tamper-
ing, Marcos probably would have won handily. Bal-
loting was heavy, and there was a nearly complete
turnout of registered voters in some provinces.
Some 65 percent of the vote has been tallied, and
it is unlikely that further returns will narrow Mar-
cos' overwhelming margin of victory. Final results
will probably not be ready for several weeks.
Vice President Lopez has done even better than
the President. His honesty and competence were wel-
comed by voters who usually have to choose between
politicians who are equally corrupt. There has been
some postelection violence, fanned by Liberal Party
losers, but most Filipinos seem to accept the elec-
tion results.
Marcos moved quickly after the election to dem-
onstrate his independence of the US. He has informed
the US and South Vietnam of a decision to withdraw
the Philippine noncombatant contingent
by the end of the
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Greece: The regime has announced new press
laws that discriminate economically against the
larger Greek newspapers.
A government spokesman introduced the new
laws, presumably designed to assist newspapers
with a small circulation, at a news conference on
Saturday. These laws continue tax concessions for
small newspapers--a number of which are progovern-
ment--but increase taxes on the larger papers by
as much as 900 percent. The new legislation also
drastically. reduces duty-free newsprint to mass
circulation dailies.
The Greek regime explains that these measures
are designed "to protect the nation from elements-
that corrupt the soul and abuse the freedom of the
press." Six weeks ago, when the government lifted
rigid press censorship, it warned publishers against
critical comment. Some of the most hostile news-
papers are the large-circulation dailies whose
owners now see the new laws as economic retaliation
for their criticism of the regime.
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El Salvador Seeks OAS Assistance For Trade Airlift
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El Salvador: The government will probably
request OAS assistance to set up an airlift opera-
tion to circumvent Honduran obstruction of Salva-
doran trade with Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
OAS officials who met with top Salvadoran
Government leaders last week led the Salvadorans
to believe that the OAS would respond favorably.
The politically troubled Salvadoran Government is
now enthusiastic about the project. Although it
does not regard the airlift as a permanent solu-
tion,. it is convinced that it will have a benefi-
cial psychological and economic effect on the coun-
try and on the government's political image. Any
backsliding on the part of the OAS might lead to
an anti-US, anti-OAS backlash.
Honduran leaders are not yet upset about the
proposed airlift, probably because they believe it
would not be as successful as expanded ferry serv-
ice between Nicaragua and El Salvador. The Hon-
duran foreign minister said that it might relieve
public pressure on Honduras against opening the
border to Salvadoran traffic and might also reduce
public fear of Salvadoran military action as a
consequence of the continued Honduran blockade.
He expressed some concern, however, that the air-
lift might weaken the Honduran bargaining position
and stiffen Salvadoran unwillingness to begin bor=
der demarcation talks. The danger exists, moreover,
that an OAS-sponsored airlift would arouse public
feeling in Honduras and lead to additional anti-US,
(Map)
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Chile: The elections at the University of
Chile will affect: all political factions as the
1970 presidential elections approach.
Dr. Eduardo Boeniger, the government candidate
who ran as an independent, won the rectorship on 12
November in a runoff election with the support of
conservatives, moderate independents, and Christian
Democrats. Boeniger was helped to victory by a ma-
jority of the professors whose weighted votes count
the most, the abstention of nearly half the stu-
dents, and infighting among the strong but divided
leftists and Communists.
The elections warned the leftists that they
must unite to win control of Chile's largest and
most important university. They reportedly are
burying their differences in order to elect a Com-
munist president of the powerful student federation
on 21 November.
This tactical victory for the government is im-
portant more for the effect it will have on jockey-
ing for the national elections than as an indicator
of their probable outcome.. The highly politicized
nature of the university makes it an important test-
ing ground for Chile's complicated and shifting pol-
itics.
The new rector, who has only a one-year term
in which to direct the reform of the university's
unwieldy administrative structure, is likely to face
a difficult task. Boeniger may have a Socialist in
the key office of secretary general. In addition,
Marxists and other leftists control several impor-
tant departments of the university, as well as its
influential radio and television operations.
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India: Prime Minister Gandhi yesterday easily
defeated no-confidence motion in Parliament intro-
duced by a right-wing opposition party. The oppo-
sition was joined by the 65 break-away Congress
Party members, led by ex-deputy prime minister Mor-
arji Desai. Support for Mrs. Gandhi from indepen-
dents and regional, socialist, and Communist par-
ties brought the vote to 306, well over the 262
needed. This ad hoc backing will enable her to
head a minority government, but she may have some
difficulty in the future trying to accommodate the
special and often conflicting interests of her new
allies.
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