THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 MAY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973778
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 1, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
I MAY 1967
1. Yemen
2. North Vietnam
? The evacuation of American person-
nel from Yemen continued quite smoothly
yesterday; only a handful of the US
staff are still in Taiz. The US charg?
office in Sana has also been reduced.
Final flights scheduled for this morning
will take out the last evacuees.
The two American AID officials ar-
rested last Wednesday are still in 'cus-
tody.
There has been no new word from
Egypt or Yemen since restrictions on
the Yemeni ambassador to the US were
lifted yesterday. Nasir's top aide,
Marshal Amer, indicated that this
"quieter situation" might help to ?get
the prisoners released.
Late word this morning from Sana
is that a large demonstration has started
in front of the US Embassy.
The air defense operation on Satur-
day against the attack on the Hanoi
railroad and highway bridges was one of
North Vietnam's most sophisticated and
well-.coordinated reactions to date. Use
of multiple surface-to-air missile
firings, large flights of MIGs, and
heavy antiaircraft fire show Hanoi's
determination to protect strategic tar-
gets in the Hanoi-Haiphong area.
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3. South Vietnam
. Guatemala
5. Greece
The Constituent Assembly has com-
pleted its draft electoral law. The
law does not specify any minimum per-
centage of the total vote a candidate
must receive in order to win, nor does
it make any reference to a runoff elec-
tion. Pressure from Ky and his sup-
porters in the assembly probably ac-
counts for these significant omissions.
The assembly, however, reared up
on its haunches and set the election
for "a Sunday in September 1967"--thus
overriding the Directorate's unilateral
selection of 1 September, a Friday.
the Commu-
nist terrorist organization is planning
to carry out attacks today against the
US Embassy, its personnel, And US-
owned property in Guatemala City. Other
May Day plans include sabotage of power
lines, attacks on other embassies, and
assassinations in the countryside.
Guatemalan authorities are alerted.
There are still no signs of an ef-
fective opposition to the military take-
over, but deep concern about the future
is developing in Athens. The talk both
in liberal and conservative circles is
that the coup could well produce a per-
manent split between left and right--a
situation which would work to the best
advantage of the Communists.
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