THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 APRIL 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973714
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 5, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
5 APRIL 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
3. Communist China
Sparring between Ky and Thieu for
the presidential candidacy is continuing
behind the scenes in Saigon. Senior
military officers, anxious to avoid
having to side openly with one or the
other, have agreed to wait for what they
hope will be a personal understanding
between the two men. The Armed Forces
Council would then endorse the candidacy
of the one who emerges as the "victor"
from the personal agreement.
Soviet seaborne shipments to North
Vietnam have increased considerably so
far this year. Deliveries of petroleum
during the first three months of 1967
were up some 25 percent over the 1966
rate. Food deliveries were up dramat-
ically--from 6,000 tons in all of last
year to 36,000 tons so far in 1967. So-
viet deliveries of machinery and equip-
ment to maintain the economy and repair
bomb damage have also risen notably.
Virtually all military equipment
is shipped overland.
The public humiliation of Liu Shao-
chi grows more strident as the stage is
set for his formal--and long overdue--
dismissal as chief of state. In the
process, all of Mao Tse-tung's miscalcu-
lations back to the 1930s are being laid
at Liu's doorstep. As Liu falls, so fall
many officials in the party apparatus he
built over the past decade.
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4. Soviet Union
5. Argentina
6. South Korea
President Ongania is pressing the
fight on Argentina's chronic inflation.
Following a major devaluation of the
peso last month, the government has an-
nounced a series of wage freezes and is
expected to take action to hold down
prices. Ongania timed his wage freeze
to take advantage of the labor move-
ment's current disarray.
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