THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 JUNE 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973876
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 27, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
27
JUNE 1967
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1.
Soviet Union
left the US yesterday.
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Kosvgin
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He faces an uphill battle if he is
really to mend his fences ?with Castro
and company. The Cubans
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regard Soviet tactics early in the
Middle East war to have been a sellout
to the "imperialists."
Newsmen covering Kosygin's arrival
in Havana comment on the absence of any
fanfare or evidence of enthusiasm for
the visit.
Back in Moscow, the propaganda media
seem at a loss on how to play the Holly-
bush talks. This is suggested by the al-
most total absence of editorial comment
on the sessions as of noon yesterday in
Moscow.
2. United Nations Yesterday's session was dominated
by King Husayn's effective presentation
of the Arab position.)
Some signs are appearing that
the Arab states may now be moving toward
acceptance of a resolution simply calling
for Israeli withdrawals.
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In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Eshkol
has firmly reiterated Israel's uncompro-
mising stand on no withdrawals until di-
rect talks with the Arabs have taken place.
He added that the peace settlement must
give Israel "better frontiers." On the
refugee problem, he expressed his govern-
ment's readiness to contribute financially
to("help heal this festering sore."
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3. United Kingdom London's disposition to look out
for its own interests in the Middle
East is showing more now than it was
when the crisis first broke. Ambassa-
dor Bruce feels that part of the expla-
nation lies in Wilson's desire to dem-
onstrate to the Common Market countries
that De Gaulle is all wrong when he
charges that London's foreign policies
are merely extensions of Washington's.
The ambassador was told, inciden-
tally, that George Brown was somewhat
more vehement than his instructions
called for when he warned Israel last
week against annexing old Jerusalem.
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4. North Vietnam
5. South Vietnam
Thieu has asked Foreign Minister
Tran Van Do to run in the vice presiden-
tial slot on Thieu's ticket. Do, who is
considering running for the upper house,
has not made up his mind on Thieu's offer
but says he will give an answer today.
Ky, meanwhile, continues to solicit
support from all quarters. )
The security ministry controls the police,
so the Chinese are quite likely to kick
in for Ky's campaign chest.
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6. Cyprus
7. France
8. Latin America
9. Uruguay
Signs continue of deepening ani-
mosity between the Cypriot and Greek
governments.
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pers are frayed and the angry talk is
becoming more voluble.
.The first step toward economic in-
tegration since Punta del Este was taken
last Friday. Five South American coun-
tries--Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and
Venezuela--formally launched their:Andean
Common Market, a subregional group within
the Latin American Free Trade Association.
It is to provide the machinery for future
cooperative agreements, including ones on
industrial integration now in the planning
stage.
President Gestido's first four months
in office have been a disappointment on -
the economic front. So far, the adminis-
tration has spent most of its energies on
filling the bureaucracy with party stal-
warts and in deploring--but doing very
little about--the continuing deterioration
of the economy.
The President's latest "non-action"
has been seriously to water down his eco-
nomic "emergency law" he hopes to get Con-
gress to pass. He is more concerned with
maintaining party unity than fighting for
this vital legislation.
Even so, intraparty squabbling over
economic policy led yesterday rtO the resig-
nation of Gestido's finance minister.
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