THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05974175
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: December 16, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
December 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
16 DECEMBER 1967
1. Thailand
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2. Yemen
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3. Greece
4. Communist China
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The junta seems willing, or even
eager, to have the King return. The
colonels probably feel his presence
would lend a needed aura of legitimacy
to their regime.
Various emissaries are en route to
Rome to see the King, and presumably to
convey the junta's conditions for his
return. Constantine says he will not
return unless the junta at least fixes
a date for a constitutional referendum.
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7. Denmark
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The dispute between Boumediene and
Army chief of staff Z'Biri, simmering
for over a month, has apparently come
to a boil. Tanks are being moved about,
and there could be some disorders. But
Boumediene, to whom the army owes its
favored position, has assumed personal
command and does not seem to be in
danger..
Krag, defeated on an anti-infla-
tion measure last night, has resigned
and called new elections for 23 January.
He will have a rough time: the polls
show his party's popularity has gone
down steadily ever since he took office
a year ago.
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I. .NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Chinese Refugees from North Vietnam: Former
Chinese residents in North Vietnam who have gone
back to China to escape the war have come up with
a rather flimsy excuse: they say they could not
adequately study Mao's works in North Vietnam.
According to a Red Guard newspaper, Chou En-lai
told a group of Red Guards last month that he does
not accept this. "Actually," Chou said, "they fled
for fear of being killed" by US planes.
Peking clearly finds the refugees unwelcome.
Not only are they excusing their flight by spread-
ing stories detrimental to Sino-Vietnamese rela-
tions, but they also mean more mouths to feed.
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Desertion of a North Vietnamese Soldier: /
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a deserter from the North Vietnamese Army. The
soldier said he had been wounded in South Vietnam
and had subsequently escaped from the hospital.
He said he would never return to the South, that
the only things awaiting North Vietnamese soldiers
there are hunger, sickness, and misery.
II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Nothing of significance to report today.
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