THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 MAY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973780
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 2, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
--Trp-Se-6444-2 May 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
2 MAY 1967
1. Yemen
2. South Vietnam
3. Cambodia
All Americans scheduled for evacua-
tion have now safely left the country.
The two US AID officers are still in cus-
tody, but US officials have uninterrupted
access to them. The Yemeni deputy pre-
mier and the commander of Egyptian forces
in Yemen are meeting with Egyptian offi-
cials in Cairo, probably to decide what
line to take now.
Nasir, apparently bent on wringing
the maximum political benefit out of the
case, may show his colors in a major
speech scheduled for this afternoon
(Washington time). He may depict the
quarrel as one between Yemen and the US,
with Egypt merely an aggrieved party.
There are hints, however, that he may
figure the time is ripe for another hard-
line anti-American blast.
Almost 1,000 villages had voted for
local councils when the first phase of
this election program wound up Sunday.
Overall voter turnout was 77 percent of
the more than three million eligible.
Scattered acts of Viet Cong terrorism
seem to have had little effect. A second
series of village elections will begin
in July.
On Sunday Sihanouk sacked the mod-
erate-Lon Nol government, which has been
under attack from the left since its
formation last October. He may have
thought the government and the army were
cooking up a major purge of the left.
Sihanouk himself may now take over as
premier, and if so is unlikely to make
any startling policy changes.
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4. Communist China
5. Soviet Union
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South Korea
Afghanistan
Tomorrow is election day, and Presi-
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dent Pak is the odds-on favorite./
Prime Minister Maiwandwal is still
not out of the woods over charges that
high-level.officials are in cahoots with
the US. For two weeks he has been avoid-
ing parliament, which is threatening to
censure him, but is expected to show up
today, and try to counter the charges.
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8. Guatemala
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