THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973946
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 7, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
7 AUGUST 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. Arab States
3. Indonesia
The Arab foreign ministers' meet-
ing in Khartoum wound up about as ex-
pected--an exercise in Semitic seman-
tics with little solid accomplishment
because of the sharp cleavage between
the radicals and the moderates.
The ministers, in fact, were not
even able to come up with an agenda for
the Arab summit tentatively set for
?29 August. Just before the summit, they
are to meet again on an agenda. Another
decision deferred was what to do about
economic sanctions against the West. A
session of oil and finance ministers
will be held in Baghdad to consider this
subject beginning on 15 August.
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was issued Thursday barring Sukarno from
leaving Bogor Palace or receiving guests
without the express permission of the
local military commander.
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4. Cyprus
. Congo
The Greeks are showing a strong
inclination to get moving on a solu-
tion to the perennial Cyprus headache.
recently that the cabinet has
been discussing the subject and the mili50X1 -HUM
tary junta wants to get talks started
with the Turks as soon as possible.
Constantine said the Greeks are willing
to make concessions if the Turks do not
ask for too much.
Constantine, incidentally, ,appears
reconciled to the military regime. .He
was quite complimentary of . Colonel
-Papadopoulos .who led the coup, and, for
all practical purposes, runs ,the -govern-
ment . The King implied it would.. be .much
-wiser for him to work with Papadopoulos
rather than against him.
Mobutu, completely frustrated in
his efforts to do something about the
mercenaries, is showing signs of irra-
tionality.
Yesterday the General subjected US
Ambassador McBride and his Belgian col-
league to a long, ranting diatribe about
the evils of the Belgians. The fact
that a Belgian leads the mercenaries
served as the peg point for this perform-
ance.
Mobutu warned he would use news
media to take the "truth to the Congo-
lese people." Ambassador McBride is
concerned that all foreigners, including
Americans, may get tarred with the same
brush.
The security situation around Bukavu
remains murky. The mercenaries are a few
miles to the north, but they are probably
more interested in getting out of the
Congo than they, are in sacking another
town.
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6. Morocco The Moroccans claim they are about
to turn to the Soviet Union for arms.
The King told Ambassador Tasca
last Thursday that this step would be
taken most reluctantly, but that he
did not feel he could afford to wait
any longer in view of Algeria's growing
military strength and political radical-
ism.
Kosygin has offered weapons on a
gift basis, the King said. Kosygin,
who made his proposition to one of the
King's representatives recently, urged
the Moroccans to move quickly in pre-
senting their shopping list because
Morocco now comes under a blanket policy
of Soviet aid to the Arabs.
The King said some military pur-
chases had already been made in Czecho-
slovakia and four transport aircraft
?bought from the Soviets.
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