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THE PRESIDENT'S
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14 AUGUST 1961
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The new restrictions on the travel of East Berliners and East
Germans to West Berlin were announced by the Ulbricht regime as
having been introduced in response to a proposal by the Warsaw
Pact nations. This is the first time the Warsaw Pact organization·
has urged action on a specific domestic problem of a member nation.
The decrees which formally impose the travel limitations are
very specific in making clear that there are no changes in the
existing regulations regarding the transit rights of the three
Western powers between West Germany and West Berlin or of West
Germans travelling between West Germany and West Berlin.
Yesterday 670 refugees registered at Marienfelde but of these
only about 40 or 50 had crossed into Berlin on that day, the remainder
having entered the West sector earlier.
East German security forces--Peoples' Police, Customs, Border
and Transport Police and armed workers militia--are stationed in
strength at all crossing-points and only 13 of the former 87 intersector crossing points in the city remain open (see MAP). At these
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Paris sent a note to Tunis on 11
August (not yet published) s.ta ting
a willingness to start talks on
arranging return to "a more normal
situation'' in Bizerte. The acting
Tunisian Foreign Minister, however,
privately told Ambassador Walmsley
that he sees ''no progress" in the
note. This reaction, plus Tunis'
failure to comment on the French
withdrawal of a paratroop regiment
from Bizerte, suggests Bourguiba
may want to see what comes o.ut of
the UN General Assembly befqre
undertaking bilateral negotiations.

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in the regime is unli~ely. The US
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in its first ten days, the Adoula
government has shown at least outward indications of stability and
previously quarrelling factions are
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Albania's growing isolation from the bloc

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status in the Warsaw Pact-organization
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neither last week's Pact meeting in
Moscow nor the one held last March.
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Moroccan-Spanish friction
may soon take a "serious
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Ambassador Bonsal in Rabat thinks
either side could foment an incident
which would further weaken the Western
position in Morocco and the Mahgreb.
The Spanish ambassador told Bonsal
that many Berber tribes in northern
Morocco, where there was a small
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encouraged to revolt and implied
that Spanish military leade~s might
be preparing to offer such encouragement. In Morocco, Bonsal thinks
the King himself might instigate
an anti-Spanish ~ncident to strengthen
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South Korean armed forces have been put on a special alert from
13-17 August as a precaution against possible disturbances in
connection with independence day (15 August) observances.

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Soviet Baltic Fleet units have been conducting a series of
most recently on 9 August. Such training is usually
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The US Embassy in Moscow believes that Moscow and Peiping have
interests in Southeast Asia and that if large-scale
. ostilities were resumed, the USSR would try to keep Chinese
forces out of Laos. The Embassy notes, however, that if
ilitary action developed into a serious threat to Pathet Lao
forces, Moscow and Peiping would have the mutual interest of
trying to prevent loss of prestige by the Communist bloc as
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E. An Air Jordan official (American) told a US Embassy officer in
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to the Congo (8 August from Cairo) but that further flights had
been cancelled. Air Jordan, he said'"was being sued for the
cancellation of the balance of 80 flights contracted for with
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