THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 FEBRUARY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968783
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 13, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
"T"op-S-eff-a-_13 February 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
13 FEBRUARY 1967
1. Communist China
2. Communist China
A concerted effort to curb Red
Guard activity seems to be under way.
A number of recent directives and
posters have told students to go home,
ordered most schools to reopen, and
called a halt to the travel of mili-
tary personnel to participate in the
cultural revolution.
Similar directives last November
and December did little to curb the
Red Guards. The recent ones appear
more authoritative, however. Peking
is emphasizing that top leaders--in-
cluding Chou En-lai and Lin Piao--
explicitly endorse them.
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3. Sino-Soviet
Relations
4. Soviet Union
13 Feb 67
Peking has eased its pressure on
the Soviet Embassy. There were no anti-
Soviet demonstrations around the embassy
today and the staff is now apparently
free to leave the compound. The Chinese
are also giving gentler treatment to
Moscow-Peking passenger trains.
It is too soon to say whether this
is more than a temporary truce. Peking
officials--and loudspeakers in the
streets--are still belching out vitriol
against the Soviets.
Bonn's drive for better relations
with Eastern Europe is creating a
dilemma for Moscow.
The Soviets cannot throw cold
water on the idea of building bridges
to Western Europe--because they also
want to build some in order to aggra-
vate divisions in NATO and reduce US
influence. On the other hand, Moscow
?probably fears that East European dip-
lomatic relations with Bonn will de-
stroy the bogey of German militarism
which the Soviets have exploited to
hold the Warsaw Pact together.
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5. South Vietnam
6. Egypt
13 Feb 67
This year's end of Tet Communist
spectacular--the unsuccessful attack
on General Westmoreland's headquarters--
is the first Viet Cong mortar attack
from within Saigon's city limits.
The mortar shells were lobbed
from a point near one of Saigon's
numerous small market places, eight
blocks from the main US headquarters
compound. The house from which the
Viet Cong sabotage squad operated blew
up; it is unclear whether the Commu-
nists escaped before the explosion.
Vietnamese civilian and military
casualties now stand at 14 killed and
39 wounded. There were no American
casualties.
Cairo, despite Ambassador Battle's
efforts, apparently does not intend to
reconsider yesterday's abrupt cancella-
tion of US overflight privileges for
planes carrying military supplies to
Jordan. A foreign ministry official
made it clear today, that the regime is
smarting over Jordan's closer involve-
ment with Saudi Arabia.
In Amman, the Jordanian acting
prime minister (the King and the prime
minister are in Saudi Arabia) has
agreed to desist for the moment from
public attacks on Cairo's action. He
made plain, however, that if the Egyp-
tians "make an issue" of the matter,
his government would have to respond.
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