THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 JUNE 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973878
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 28, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
Se,gzel 28 June 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
28 JUNE 1967
1. Egypt Serious factional maneuvering may ,
be underway in Cairo.
2. Soviet Union
there
is unrest in the army and press reports
from Cairo state the armed forces are
on maximum alert. Such an alert could
be part of the effort to rebuild Egypt's
shattered defenses, but it could also
be prompted by concern for the regime's
internal security.
Little is being said about Kosygin's
Cuban visit. There are good indications
that the trip was at Kosygin's initia-
tive, not Castro's. The Soviet premier
will stop over in Paris and see De Gaulle
again Saturday.
3. South Vietnam Both Ky and Thieu have announced
their vice-presidential running mates.
Ky's choice is southerner Nguyen
Van Loc, chairman of the advisory Peo-
ples-Army Council.
Thieu's man, Trinh Quoc Khanh (also
known as Nguyen Huu Le) is a southerner
of the Hoa Hao religious sect. It is
not clear at this point how much strength
this man can muster. If he can deliver
the Hoa Hao, however, he will be a dis-
tinct asset for Thieu.
Foreign Minister Tran Van Do said
yesterday that he has decided to run
for the upper house. He was apparently
dissuaded from running with Thieu at
the last minute.
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. Aden The situation is critical in this
unhappy sun-baked colony.
As things stand now, the British
are sitting around the rim of the Crater
district, an extinct volcano where many
of the Arabs live. In the Crater, mur-
der and mayhem go virtually unchecked
as rival nationalists fight it out.
The British have promised to be
out of Aden by 9 January, if they do
not abandon it before. They are al-
ready withdrawing their garrisons from
the hinterland. It appears ,at this
stage that anarchy will be the only
thing they leave behind.
Dependents of American consular
personnel are being evacuated. The
Consulate has been the target of sev-
eral bombing and arson attempts.
5. Dominican Republic For political and prestige reasons,
Balaguer is opposed to devaluing the
peso. The rate is now 1 peso to $1 US.
He is holding to this position despite
the International Monetary Fund's recom-
mendation that, in the long run, this
is the only way out of the fiscal swamp
in which the Dominican balance of pay-
ments is mired.
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8. Burma
7. Communist China
8. France
Two days of anti-Chinese rioting
in Rangoon may soon take Burma into
the crowded ranks of nations with which
Peking is not on speaking terms. The
riots were sparked when Chinese students
demonstrated against a ban on wearing
Mao Tse-tung buttons distributed by the
Chinese Embassy.
Peking is certain to make a scene;
if Burmese diplomats in the Chinese capi-
tal have profited from the recent exam-
ples of their British and Indian col-
leagues, they will be laying in supplies
for a Red Guard siege.
We expect relations will be badly
strained but not break.
The French shot the second of their
Pacific nuclear tests yesterday.
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9. Guinea
Guinea's Foreign Minister Beavogui
is an unwilling "guest" of the Ivory
Coast Government. Beavogui's airliner
had to land in the Ivory Coast Monday
because of bad weather. The Ivorians,
whose relations with Guinea are any-
thing but good, whisked Beavogui and
his aides away. The Ivorians may try
to trade him for one of their fishing
boats seized by Guinea.
Beavogui has had experience in this
form of African diplomacy. Last year
he was pulled off a plane in Ghana. That
incident was used by the Guineans as an
excuse for anti-American demonstrations.
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