THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 SEPTEMBER 1967

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 7, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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'DAILY BRIEF
7 SEPTEMBER 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. Communist China -
North Vietnam
3. Latin America
As defeated presidential candidates
continue to insist the election was
rigged, ?runner-up Truong Dinh Dzu claims
he is going to organize a civilian oppo-
sition party. Yesterday Dzu also re-
peated his call for negotiations with
the Communists.
Lower house elections are scheduled
for 22 October and some 1,500 candidates
have filed for the 137 seats at stake.
The ministerial meeting of the -
Latin American Free Trade Association
ended last Saturday after accomplishing
nothing. Last minute objections by Peru
scuttled a proposal for gradual elimina-
tion of tariffs against products of less
developed countries. No agreement was
reached on an automatic tariff cutting
mechanism, and there was no real prog-
ress toward setting up .a common market.
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4. Congo
The mercenaries are making threat-
ening noises about leaving Bukavu for
Goma, to the north, where there is a
good airfield. Once there, they could
either leave the Congo or await re-
enforcements from Angola. We cannot
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confirm any movement toward Goma
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Mobutu, feverishly hosting the
Organization of African Unity confer-
ence, seems to have put the mercen-
aries out of mind for the moment.
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5.
Nonproliferation
Treaty
The Soviets have backed down from
their insistence that the International
Atomic Energy Agency be the sole admin-
istrator of any safeguards provision.
A compromise Soviet proposal would per-
mit the Common Market countries, which
have their own safeguards system, to take
up to two years to negotiate with the
International Agency to determine how
safeguards would apply. These countries
could negotiate individually, or as a
group.
The Common Market countries, while
welcoming the concession, are likely to
respond cautiously. France might tor-
pedo the idea of any negotiations with
the International Agency.
The Soviets are also saying that
the problem of security guarantees to
nonnuclear powers "would not be,a dif-
ficult issue between the US and USSR.".
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6. Cambodia
Sihanouk, in another jab at Cam-
bodian leftists, has dissolved the
Cambodian-Chinese Friendship Associa-
tion--a noted tool of his Peking-leaning
leftists. This .action, however, (like
other recent "crackdowns" on the left)
was done in away calculated to keep
'Peking from.getting too worked up.
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SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
7 SEPTEMBER 1967
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
7 September 1967
Hanoi on elections: North Vietnamese propaganda
media continue to charge the elections were fraudulent,
but a note of sensitivity to the large turnout of voters
can be detected.
Schoenbrun pessimistic: Ex-CBS newsman David
Schoenbrun touched down in Vientiane, Laos, Tuesday eve-
ning after a two-week visit to Hanoi. Schoenbrun was
described by US Embassy officers as disillusioned and
deeply depressed about the prospects for peace.
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Schoenbrun spoke of the "unswerving determination"
of the leadership in Hanoi, the "inflexibility" of its
terms for peace and negotiations, and the "remarkable
organization and morale" of the people in the north. He
was especially struck by the energy and morale of the
people he observed on trips outside Hanoi, saying this
was unlike anything he had seen before as a war corres-
pondent.
"During his visit, Schoenbrun had a two-and-a-quar-
ter hour interview with Premier Pham Van Dong and shook
hands with Ho Chi Minh. Schoenbrun found nothing new
in Hanoi's peace terms and held out no hopes for any im-
mediate settlement through negotiations.
,Schoenbrun Talks with US Prisoners: Schoenbrun was
allowed to visit five American prisoners being held in a
villa near the main Red River bridge in Hanoi. He thought
four of them were in "fairly good" physical and mental
condition, were treated and cared for as well as possible,
and ,showed no evidence of brainwashing. One, who was
severely wounded when captured, said he had been immedi-
ately taken to a hospital and nursed back to complete
health. Some of the prisoners had received mail and even
packages sent through open international mail. Schoenbrun
said the North Vietnamese argued that the prisoners are
a burden to them--they eat twice as much as any-Vietnamese,
and the authorities are concerned they may be killed by
US bombings.
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