THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 APRIL 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973768
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 25, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
25 APRIL 1967
1. Greece
2. South Vietnam
3. Soviet Union
The new government is anxious to
be accepted by its NATO allies. In
talks with Americans, high officials
have underscored their pro-US position,
and the new foreign minister lost no
time in accepting an invitation to
Adenauer's funeral.
The King is still bitter about
the coup, but yesterday he met with
one of its leaders.
the King
said it had been "fairly cordial" and
that he believes he must reach some
understanding with the new government.
The coup in Athens has created
some uneasiness on Cyprus where Greek
Cypriots in particular are not quite
sure what may come next.
Voters have now gone to the polls
in 900 of the approximately 1,000 vil-
lages scheduled to elect their officials
this spring. Total turnout so far has
been 77 percent of those registered.
Viet Cong harassment was light during
the latest polling last Sunday.
The ill-fated flight of Soyuz-1
is a serious setback to the Soviet
manned space program. The Russians are
not likely to risk another cosmonaut
fatality until they have made a detailed
investigation of the disaster and cor-
rected the technical difficulties that
plagued Colonel Komarov's entire mis-
sion: Damage to the capsule will ham-
per such investigations.
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4. Communist China
5. Indonesia
6. Bolivia
Chinese leadership below Mao Tse-
tung, Lin Piao, and Chou En-lai has
been changed drastically in the past
month.
Leaders in current favor turned
out for a rally on 20 April and again
with Mao and Lin yesterday. Five im-
portant politburo members are missing,
including Foreign Minister Chen yi.
Lin Piao's wife showed up at the rally
along with Madame Mao, the perennial
harridan of the Cultural Revolution.
The belated entry of these ladies
into public life--both had been seldom
seen and never heard before last year--
suggests they are useful representatives
at meetings their husbands do not care
to attend.
Outside Peking, there is continued
evidence of economic dislocation, al-
though not on the scale that we saw in
January.
Relations between Djakarta and
Peking took another nose dive yesterday,
but neither country seems willing to be
the one to break diplomatic ties entirely.
Charging that the Chinese Embassy had
organized antigovernment demonstrations,
the Indonesians threw the two most senior
Chinese diplomats out of the country.
Within hours Peking repaid in kind.
Bolivian troops have scored their
first victories against the guerrillas.
Twice last week army patrols hit guer-
rilla bands, inflicting casualties and
taking prisoners. Several foreign na-
tionals were captured/
/ These recent ?victories should
help pump up Bolivian army morale.
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