THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 SEPTEMBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973992
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 2, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
2 Sep 1967
1. South Vietnam
. Communist China
Lieutenant General Cao Van Vien,
minister, of defense and chief of the
Joint General Staff, ma et sacked
after the election.
Plans for a housecleaning _in the
armed forces are reaching sizable
proportions with 200-300 officers re-
ported on the list to get fired for
corruption.
Increasingly nasty Chinese
treatment of foreign diplomats in
Peking is leading several governments
to consider pulling their representa-
tives out of China altogether.
The sacking of the British Embassy
on 22 August was merely the most dra-
matic event in a long string of such
humiliations. The problem is particu-
larly acute for the British and
Indonesians. Peking has refused to
permit any evacuation of personnel
or dependents from these embassies,
regarding them as useful hostages for
Chinese Communist citizens in London
and Djakarta.
The British are now proposing to
the Chinese that tensions between the
two countries can perhaps best be
reduced by temporarily withdrawing all
their personnel from each other's
capitals. Peking may or may not be
receptive to this idea, but as matters
now stand pressures for reducing the
foreign presence in China will keep on
building up.
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3. Arab World
4. France
5. Nicaragua
The oil producing states at the
summit meeting said aloud what they
had been saying to themselves all
along--they were all feeling the pinch.
They agreed to start the pumps again,
although it still remains to be seen
if the hard-nosed Syrians, who boycotted
the summit and who wanted an embargo,
go along.
The Communist nations are far
from united on this subject though
The National Guard is evidently
well on its way to wiping out the rural
guerrilla units of a small pro-Castro
terrorist organization. Many guerrillas
reportedly were killed in recent clashes
with the guard, which is now trying to
chase down the survivors. Members of
the terrorist organization in Managua
may try to change their luck by start-
ing trouble there during the 14-
15 September national holiday, but we
doubt that they would be very successful.
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6. Peru
There are tenuous signs that the
political quarrel which has kept
Congress paralyzed for five weeks .
could be settled soon. Even when
Congress resumes, however, there will
be little prospect of an end to the
legislative-versus-executive bickering
that has plagued the Belaunde admin-
istration. Belaunde is now facing
another crisis which could prove even
more troublesome: an economic down-
turn is causing Peru's foreign exchange
reserves to dip dangerously low.
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