THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05974141
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• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: November 27, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
ret 27 November 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
27 NOVEMBER 1967
1. Cyprus
2. Japan
'The spotlight is back on Ankara's
Side of the stage as the Turks consider
the latest counterproposals from Athens.
We have not yet heard how Mr. Vance
fared at his breakfast meeting with the
Turkish foreign minister.
The Greeks are suggesting complete
demilitarization of the island, and
the Turks, who distrust Makarios, want
to keep their 650-man detachment there.
This issue is likely to cause a snag.
Makarios, too, may prove somewhat diffi-
cult once he feels free from the threat
of an immediate invasion.
Tensions are still high in Turkey,
but there was some moderation noted in
press material over the weekend.
Sato's new cabinet is potentially
the strongest combination since he
took office in 1964. The eleven new
men named over the weekend represent
different factions of the Liberal Demo-
cratic Party and tend to balance the
seven ministers Sato kept on.
This solid front combination should
be particularly useful in staving off
opponents of US-Japanese security ties--
the treaty is up for reconsideration in
1970--and for getting the party through
upper-house elections next year.
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3. South Vietnam
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Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
Director General of National Police, has
submitted his resignation. He gave
fatigue as the reason./
4. Organization of .The OAS will try again to pick a
American States secretary general today. Earlier bal-
loting produced no one candidate-there
now are three--with enough votes to
carry, the election. Gab Plaza, the
suave Brooklyn-born Ecuadorean supported
by the US, is within a few votes of the
necessary twelve.
5. Cambodia
6. International
Communism
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Sihanouk has told all foreign jour-
nalists to get out of Cambodia and he
will let no more in after 1 December,
The Prince's pique stems from the arti-
cles written by two American correspond-
ents about Viet Cong bases in Cambodia.
A conclave of Communist parties
has been called for next February in
Budapest. The ostensible purpose is
to lay the groundwork for a subsequent
international party conference.
Invitations to Budapest have gone
out to all-parties, but several impor-
tant ones are likely to send regrets.
They will see the Budapest meeting as
another Soviet try at re-establishing
Moscow's leadership over the world Com-
munist movement.
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7. Jordan
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8. Communist China
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Militant Red Guards are still
making trouble in some areas, although
the over-all level of disorder in China
is relatively low.
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Special Daily Report: on. North Vietnam.
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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I.
27 November
NOTES ON THE SITUATION
More on the Hanoi Bridges:
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Paul
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Doumer and the Canal des Rapides bridges are
back in full operation. there has
a sizable increase in the number of antiaircraft
emplacements at both ends of the Paul Doumer Bridge.
truck traffic was "extremely
Friday night on the road from the Canal
des Rapides toward Hanoi.
heavy" last
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Stokely Carmichael's Whereabouts: Carmichael
was still in Tanzania as of last Friday./
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There are more signs that Stokely is wearing out
his welcome in Dar es Salaam. Last week classroom
blackboards at the local university were seen with the
message, "Emotional Stokely, Childish Carmichael, go
home."
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Ambassador to Hanoi Soon: The 3.3(h)(2)
Embassy in Peking informed its foreign ministry
on Thursday that "the ambassador plans to fly to
Hanoi next month" and requested that his credentials
be "expedited." Apparently the plan to 3.3(h)(2)
follow up quickly the recent agreement with Hanoi
raising the respective missions to embassies.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi Continues on US "False Optimism": Hanoi
radio's English language broadcast on Saturday sum-
marized an authoritative editorial of that day in the
official daily Nhan Dan. The main pitch was an effort
to refute the "chorus of optimism, sung with gusto but
undeniably tinted with pessimism" which has been coming
out of Washington in recent weeks. Hanoi's editorial
quotes the New York Times of 19 November to buttress
its argument that the recent statements by US leaders
are based on "tall stories" and are designed simply to
refute the "spreading wave of national pessimism" in
the US. Hanoi also suggested that a desire to strength-
en the administration for next year's elections is be-
hind the new "optimism."
The editorial went on to claim that this optimism
cannot fool anyone--and it certainly cannot change the
facts. It is, Hanoi declared, simply "a product of
utilitarianism" and will "boomerang."
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More Hanoi Comment on US Antiwar Campaign: In
an official statement in Hanoi's army newspaper on
Friday, the North Vietnamese claimed they expect no
change in US war policy after next year's elections.
The article went on to say, however, that "we highly
value the struggle of the American people." The
antiwar effort is an expression of the American
people's struggle "for their own vital interests"
as well as assistance to the "Vietnamese in their
just fight." The decisive factor in the war, how-
ever, will be the struggle of "our own people," the
article concluded.
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