THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 JULY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973912
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 18, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
18 JULY 1967
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1. South Vietnam
2. Vietnam -
Philippines
3. Rhodesia -
Britain
The Assembly's election committee
yesterday voted to disqualify the Thieu-
Ky ticket. Even though the Assembly
as a whole is expected to reverse the
decision later today, the committee's
action is not sitting well with the top
military leaders, who are now meeting
to decide what to do about it.
.The election committee also ,ap-
proved_"Big"-Minh's candidacy, an ac-
tion the whole Assembly is expected to
uphold.
Ky and Thieu appear to have reached
agreement on how to use Ky's campaign
apparatus to support their ticket. Ky's
organization will be merged with Thieu's
much smaller one, and a "central com-
mittee" formed to oversee the whole
operation. Thieu will name the "secre-
tary general," but Ky's men will actu-
ally run things/
Embassy Manila says Filipinos Are
"agog with excitement and admiration"
over-Marcos' swift and secret foray
into-Vietnam on Sunday. Press accounts
approvingly compare it to President
Johnson's Similar visit.
An emissary the British have had
in Rhodesia for the past three weeks
found no give in the position of the
Smith regime. There is little pros-
pect for an early break in the impasse.
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4. Soviet Union -
Syria
5. Nigeria
6. Congo
All US government personnel, in-
cluding AID contract employees and
Peace Corps Volunteers, are being evac-
uated from the Eastern Region except
for an augmented Consulate staff at
Enugu. Arrangements are also being
made to remove in the next few days
all other non-Nigerians who wish to
leave.
There is no change in the mili-
tary situation.
The retreating mercenaries have
stopped in the Punia area to the south-
east of Kisangani. President Mobutu
has told Ambassador McBride that his
troops would have a tough time driving
them out of this inaccessible jungle
area. He believes, however, that he
has pretty well bottled them up by
ordering all bridges on key escape
routes blown up.
Mobutu half expects the merce-
naries to get out by air. He admitted
that his government had no way to stop
them.
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7. Laos
8. Panama
Ambassador Sullivan has told Pre-
mier Souvanna that he will hold up re-
placing the ten T-28s lost in the Commu-
nist penetration of Luang Prabang air-
field Sunday until positive improvements
in the security of the field are made.
Souvanna indicated that as a first step
he planned to fire the responsible
Laotian commander.
In the meantime, the remaining
T-28s will continue to stage combat
missions out of Luang Prabang but will
overnight at the more secure Vientiane
airfield.
Last-minute difficulties have
arisen which may set back the timetable
for completion of action on the three
draft treaties dealing with the Canal
issue.
Foreign Minister Eleta, for one
thing, has claimed that the map accom-
panying one of the draft treaties shows
larger areas earmarked for US bases
and smaller areas for joint administra-
tion than the negotiators agreed to.
Also, many government leaders are said
to think President Robles should delay
coming to Washington and that the rati-
fication process should be put off
until all the drafts in the package
have been more thoroughly studied.
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9. Middle East
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