THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 MARCH 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968809
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 1, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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28 February 1967
I March 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
28 FEBRUARY - I MARCH 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
Former prime minister Tran Van
Huong is emerging as a potential civil-
ian presidential candidate who would
have the support of southern regionalists.
He wants the job and probably will throw
his hat into the ring when the time
comes, according to a US Embassy officer
?who visited him yesterday.
The embassy officer found Huong to
be an intelligent and strong-minded man,
but no strong believer in democracy. As
president, he would try to be a strong,
paternalistic leader. Huong understands
the need for military-civilian coopera-
tion, but he keenly remembers his troubles
with the military when he-was prime minis-
ter. He is clearly thinking of a civil-
ian government in which the military would
be kept in a subordinate role.
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3. Communist China
4. Latin America
5. Aden
The army is now clearly emerging
as the prime instrument for reestablish-
ing order.
Yesterday Peking broadcast what
amounts to a blueprint for the military
in straightening out those provinces
where disorder exists. The broadcast
identifies "anarchism" as the chief dan-
ger, an implicit criticism of Maoist
revolutionaries. It also stresses the
importance of "production."
wall posters show that the
army is increasingly active in civil
affairs.
Radical revolutionary groups are
still causing trouble in some provinces,
but troops are now being used to arrest .
their leaders and, in some cases, dis-
band their organizations.
Perhaps as many as four presidents
will not attend the inter-American sum-
mit. Arosemena of Ecuador and Belaunde
of Peru could well boycott--mainly be-
cause of their dispute with the United
States over fishing rights. Barrientos
of Bolivia insists he will stay away un-
less Bolivia's access to the sea is on
the agenda. He seems amenable to a face-
saving formula on this, however. We
have already noted that Duvalier will re-
main in Haiti.
A new wave of violence in Aden is
expected to follow the killing of a num-
ber of prominent Arab nationalists. In
the last three days, a former cabinet
minister was shot, an ex-premier's home
was bombed and three of his sons killed,
and two men were trampled to death at the
sons' funeral. The chaos has produced a
general strike.
What lies behind all this, we believe,
is a feud between the two main terrorist
groups which are fighting for position in
anticipation of the British pullout next
year.
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