THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05974171
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• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: December 14, 1967

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The President's Daily -Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
14 DECEMBER 1967
1. Greece
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The King and his family have fled
to Rome following yesterday's abortive
coup. Premier Papadopoulos is firmly
in control of Greece.
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2. Yemen
3. Philippines
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4. Common Market
Soviet aid has enabled the repub-
lican government to hold off the imme-
diate royalist threat. /
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Marcos held a meeting on Monday to
lay the groundwork for a new drive
against the Huks. He said there would
be no compromise and raised the price
on the head of each Huk leader.
These prices are high by rural
standards and should prove tempting
to peasants in the barrios. Along with
the campaign to eliminate Huks, Marcos
called for a beefed-up civic action
program.
The Common Market partners less
France are meeting outside Brussels to-
day to discuss Britain's bid for mem-
bership. Only last week the Italians
and Germans were dragging their feet,
saying a meeting now would be "premature.
The decision to meet probably has
been influenced by Wilson's drive to
get a yes or no answer by next week on
opening negotiations for membership.
France's .intransigent behavior on finan-
cial cooperation was probably also a
factor.
5. Dominican Republic Balaguer is determined to strength-
en his own hand in the Dominican mili-
tary by appointing faithful followers
to key command posts.
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6. France
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"The day will come when the Ameri-
cans will crawl on the ground in front
of me!" This statement was made by
De Gaulle to a retired French four-star
general, Jean Valluy, who was trying to
explain NATO to the French President.
Valluy, a strong NATO booster, bluntly
told De Gaulle he was crazy. For that,
Valluy was dismissed abruptly from the
presence.
Valluy did
not say just when his meeting with De
Gaulle took place.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 December 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
More from Burchett: Wilfred Burchett had a
three-hour conversation with US Embassy officers in
Paris last week. These are his main conclusions:
--Compared with his visit to Hanoi last January,
the North Vietnamese in October were taking a dis-
tinctly harder position on willingness to enter into
a dialogue with the US; prospects of finding an
early solution, therefore, are not bright.
(Burchett said the North Vietnamese accuse
the US of talking peace while intensifying
the war. For example, the North Vietnam-
ese had agreed to talk at Warsaw last De-
cember and even had an official en route
when the US resumed the bombing of Hanoi.
He also claimed the North Vietnamese were
ready to talk at Rangoon during the 37-
day pause.)
--There is little chance that Hanoi's position
on cessation of the bombing can be altered since the
North Vietnamese line as set forth in the Trinh inter-
view last January has become so much a part of the
public record.
(When asked whether the US would have to
make a public declaration on cessation of
the bombing in order to get talks started,
Burchett said it was his impression that
de facto cessation, coupled with word
Through diplomaticchannels that the action
was responsive to Hanoi statements, would
suffice. As for the time lapse between
cessation of bombing and starting of talks,
Burchett said the North Vietnamese had not
discussed this with him. He said reports
indicating any specific time limit--three
or four weeks--were pure conjecture.)
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--In the negotiating phase, Hanoi would prob-
ably agree to having all "belligerents" participate,
i.e., including both the Liberation Front and the
government of South Vietnam.
--The North Vietnamese over the last year have
shown increased interest in getting more books and
information on all aspects of the US in order
to improve their understanding. Far greater atten-
tion is now being paid to the analysis of develop-
ments in the US.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
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Hanoi on US Antiwar Protests: The North Vietnam-
ese routinely mentioned two recent US antiwar pro-
tests in an international service broadcast in English
on 13 December. The broadcast noted a women's protest
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march in New York on 9 December and reported that
another American woman burned herself to death on
11 December in New York to protest the war. Ac-
cording to the broadcast, this was the eleventh
self-immolation in the US since March 1965.
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