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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.
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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) AP ticker item #71 U 6/12/68 The UN General Assembly today approved by a vote of 96 to 2 (with 18 abstentions) a resolution condemning South Africa for holding on to South West Africa but making no specific request for sanctions by the Security Council to compel the South Africans to yield control. The United States, Great Britain and France were among the abstainers. Only Portugal and South Africa voted against the resolution. INR/RAF Comment: C Although we do not yet have the text of the SWA resolution as passed, it appears to be essentially the same as the compromise resolution agreed to only last night by the Afro-Asian and Latin American delegates. This compromise eliminated all specific references to Chapter 7 of the UN Charter (mandatory sanctions), but sanctions were so strongly implied in several places in the compromise resolution that the US felt unable to go along with it. Passage of the SWA resolution this early in the day appears to clear the way for a vote on the NPT resolution later today. Had the US been able to vote in favor of the SWA resolution, we would have predicted that some of the African members who abstained in the Committee I vote on the NPT resolution might have supported it in the plenary vote. Our abstention on the SWA resolution makes any significant shifts in favor of the NPT resolution unlikely as African members will be tempted to retaliate for our abstention on a resolution that so directly affects their interests. We do not, however, anticipate that our abstention on the SWA resolution will significantly (if at all) increase the negative vote on the NPT resolution. (Tanzania and Zambia were the only two African countries to vote against the NPT resolution in Committee I.)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 132 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.