THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973936
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 1, 1967

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DAILY BRIEF
1 .AUGUST 1967
1. Communist China
- 2. Arab States
3. India
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More trouble is shaping up as
Peking continues trying--with few
signs of success--to get rebellious
military district commanders back in
line.
All indications point to a crisis
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wracked Wuhan. There has been serious
rioting in Canton;
There has also been a new outbreak
violence in Changsha
Arab foreign ministers gather in
Khartoum this week to set the stage
for the much advertised Arab summit
conference. Among the agenda items
will be discussion of the oil embargo
and some stocktaking on Arab military
capabilities now that the dust has
settled a bit. Given the wide spread
in political outlook and the Arab pro-
pensity for arm-waving oratory, we
anticipate an acrimonious session.
Mrs. Gandhi suffered another po-
litical setback on Saturday when the
Congress Party government of Madhya
Pradesh state collapsed. A coalition
dominated by Hindu nationalists has re-
placed the government of D. P. Mishra,
who was one of Mrs. Gandhi's strongest
boosters.
This is the third Congress Party
state government to fold since March-- _
a record which is weakening Mrs.
Gandhi's position in the party. Con-
gress now controls only 7 of 17 state
governments.
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4. Nigeria
5. Canada
Bloody little clashes continue to
mark the pace of Nigeria's slow-motion
civil war, but neither side is chalking
up any real gains.
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Federal troops still hold the island
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court and may be getting ready to move
on the port itself. (
Yesterday Biafra took over the oil
installations of Shell-British Petroleum;
the company's manager is being held
hostage for a royalties bill the Biafrans
claim is owed them.
De Gaulle seems to have chosen Canada
as another stage on which to dramatize
his personal vendetta against Anglo-Saxon
power.
After a long cabinet meeting yester-
day, De Gaulle issued a statement on his
Canadian visit that can only be construed
in Canada as a definite gesture toward
Quebec separatists. While the statement
was ambiguous on just how France would
help French Canadians achieve their "lib-
erating goals," De Gaulle has made it
clear he anticipates a special role in
forwarding such aspirations.
The statement made a point of empha-
sizing the differences between French and
English speaking Canadians at the same
time it drew a distinction between the
federal government in Ottawa and the
French Canadian regime in Quebec.
There has been no official Canadian
reaction noted yet, but De Gaulle's foray
into Canada is going to be debated with
a good deal of vigor in the days ahead.
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