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This is a compilation of Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) briefing notes to the Director of INR, mostly dated June 12, 1968, with some from June 6, 1968. The notes cover world events, including student riots in Paris, East German passport and visa rules for West Germans, a UN resolution on South West Africa, a change of Komsomol leadership, Sino-Nepalese relations, and the Colombian presidential resignation crisis. Unrest in Senegal and Somalia is also covered. None of the notes discuss UFOs.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE INR BRIEFING NOTE GIST: MA KITANIA: Labor Strife Continues to Pose Security Threat TO: The Director, INR DATE: 6/6/68 TIME: 8 a.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Dakar 2946 6/4 (rec'd 6/5) C (map attached) President Says Anarchy Intolerable, Steps Being Taken. Dakar radio carried portions of a speech by President Moktar ould Daddah in which he said, referring to current labor unrest at Miferma/mine near Zouerate: (A) he, Moktar, could not permit anarchy. (B) with labor federation, taking steps to restore calm. (C) and although situation not yet entirely restored, he confident that Mauritian security forces would preserve order. (Dakar) British Embassy has report (unconfirmed) that some Chicom personnel had been seen mingling with workers during riots at Miferma. Commander French Forces est Africa said, at Moktar's request, French parachute company had been ready leave Dakar Friday for Zouerate on 3 hour notice. Moktar wired French troops not needed and that his forces had situation under control. Dakar 2973, 6/5 CONFIDENTIAL Press Reports 6/5 described demonstrations by students in Nouakchott against "massacre of Zouerate" for "more than one hour despite efforts forces of order." Press reports of Moktar June 3 speech rptd when security forces unable to calm workers at Zouerate May 27, they were directed to "shoot at their legs." Casualties: 8 dead, 23 wounded. Moktar told students that continued trouble would only cause them to lose one year of study. INR RAF COMMENTS: The French admission that troops had been standing by last Friday shows that labor strife at Miferma, though fairly common phenomenon, had Moktar really worried. (He did not use French assistance in quelling a 1965 riot in Zouerate, even though at that time Europeans were threatened by unruly mob action.) These late admissions of the seriousness of last week's events could mean the Mauritian Government feels secure enough now to talk about the problem. As for the Chicoms, their aid effort is concentrated at opposite side. INR OFFICE BRIEFER EXTENSION 4149
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