THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05974123
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 11
• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: November 16, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
16 NOVEMBER 1967
1". Cyprus
2. France
A tenuous cease-fire was arranged
last night after the most serious out-
break of fighting in at least two years.
Hostilities erupted after General Grivas,
the Greek who commands the Cypriot armed
forces, insisted on sending police patrols
through a tense Turkish-Cypriot area that
had been free of such patrols since last
July. Turkish-Cypriots resisted, but
were overwhelmed by Grivas' National
�Guard before the cease-fire came into
effect.
Athens' role in this flare-up is
still not entirely clear. It had appar-
ently approved Grivas' plan to resume
the patrols, but--after urgent US and
British representations--did order the
cease-fire and Grivas' withdrawal from
positions gained in the day's fighting.
At last word, Grivas was apparently with-
drawing.
The outbreak came at A-time of
heightened tension between Athens and
Ankara, caused in part by the recent
Turkish airforce intrusions over: Greek
islands in the Aegean. The Turk re-
acted quickly to yesterday's events
warning that they might have to inter-
vene. The U$ military attach�n Ankara
noted obvious Turkish military prepara-
tions and saw bombs being loaded on
Turkish aircraft.
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3. Communist China
4. Mongolia
5. United Kingdom
6. Singapore
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The presence of Soviet combat troops
in Mongolia was openly acknowledged for
the first time last weekwhen Soviet
tanks and surface-to-air missiles took
part in the 50th anniversary parade in
Ulan Bator. The Chinese are sure to
look on this as a further affront by the
"revisionist puppets" running Mongolia.
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Lee Kuan Yew
thinks his recent trip to the
US was "very successful," even though
he did not. get the security guarantee
he had hoped for from the US. He is
still talking,:of_the long-term threat
he fears Indonesia poses for Singapore',
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7. Philippines
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From all accounts, Tuesday's elec-
tions were among the bloodiest and per-
haps the dirtiest in recent Filipino
history. At last word, the death toll
was 62 and still rising.
Returns are coming in slowly, but
it is already obvious that the two-party
system is still a going concern. Marcos'
party is doing well in many places, but
one of the President's bitterest enemies
is ahead in one of the eight senatorial
races and another has won the contest
for mayor of Manila.
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Panama
Arnulfo Arias is
talking confidently
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of winning the election next May against
whatever candidates President Robles and
other politicians put up. Given the con-
tinuing angry dissension in the Robles
camp, Arias has good reason for his op-
timism. Moreover, he remains secure as
head of the country's only mass-based
political party.
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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16 November 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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� Communists Fail to Comment on Goldberg State-
ments: Neither Hanoi nor the Liberation Front has
yet reportedor commented on Ambassador Goldberg's
statements of two weeks ago that the US would not
block the Front's participation in talks at the
United Nations or at a Geneva-type conference. Nor-
mally, both are quick to rule out any role for the
United Nations in Vietnam talks. The lack of com-
ment suggests that they consider this a modification
in the US position.
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:II, NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
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:Hanoi on US Deserters: North Vietnam has de-
scribed as "resolute and valiant" the desertions
of the four US Navy sailors in Japan. A 15 Novem-
ber Hanoi International:Service broadcast in
English states that the sailors left their ship
in protest against the "US aggressive war" in Viet-
,nam. The broadcast reports a commentary in the
Hanoi Daily,,Nhan Dan; claiming that the sailors
have "clearly seen the truth" of the Vietnam war
and the "extremely reactionary and dangerous"
policy of the US. The Hanoi paper also says that
the desertions were a "heavy blow" to President
Johnson and showed that the antiwar movement of, the
American people was growing stronger.
A separate Hanoi International Service broad-
cast in English yesterday reports on desertions by
US troops in Western Europe. The broadcast claims
that during the past year more than 1,000 US sol-
diers have deserted in Western Europe--70 percent
of them to avoid being transferred to South Viet-
nam "to serve as cannon fodder," According to
Hanoi, "disastrous US defeats" in Vietnam have
steadily increased the US troops,' hatred of the war.
The broadcast also claims that the people of the
West European countries have aided the deserters
and that US authorities are "deeply concerned" and
have tried to "cover up the facts."
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Hanoi on Court-Martial of Army Private:. A Hanoi
International Service broadcast in English yesterday
reported that "American youths" held a meeting in
'New York's Union Square on 13 November to defend
a US army private who refused to go
to Vietnam. The broadcast said that the partici-
-pants�members of the Dubois clubs--condemned the
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US Government's persecution of Americans who refused
to take part in the "dirty war."
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