THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973948
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 8, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
8 AUGUST 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
?3. Sudan
The presidential campaign is off
to .an unfortunate'start, but is prob-
ably not seriously jeopardized. There
is no evidence that the Saigon govern-
ment was deliberately responsible for
the fiasco on Sunday that caused civil-
ian candidates to cancel .a scheduled
campaign tour. Actually, bad weather
prevented the government plane carrying
the candidates from landing where it was
supposed to.
Predictably, some of the candidates
are claiming the incident "proves" that
the government has no intention of
giving equal opportunity to all-candi-
dates. Tempers are cooling today,,how-
ever, and several candidates are propos-
ing resumption of campaigning.
President Ho Chi Minh has dropped
out of public sight for the longest
period on record.
The Cairo press is saying that the
Sudanese have concluded a military aid
agreement with Moscow. This would be
the first such Soviet assistance to
,this Arab country. -We have no details;
however,,we do know that a Sudanese
delegation arrived in Moscow about a
week ago(
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. Soviet Union
Recent satellite photography shows
what is probably a new .class of torpedo
attack submarine under construction.
This new craft is about 300 feet long.
5. Soviet Union There are more straws in the wind
suggesting that Moscow is trying .to
get the Suez Canal opened./
This strikes us as
not surprising, ? since the USSR has been
-a major user of the Canal, sending some
?eight million tons of cargo through it
in 1965. Also, the trip .around Africa
is adding about 16 days to Soviet ?ship-
ments to Vietnam.
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