THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 MAY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973806
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 17, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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US citizens Liapis and Hartman
were freed this morning. As of
5:00 AM EDT they were enroute to
Asmara, Eritrea, by plane.
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DAILY BRIEF
17 MAY 1967
1. North Vietnam
2. South Vietnam
3. Hong Kong
The flight of the eight Soviet
transports to Hanoi via Peking has evi-
dently been held up. We have yet no
indication whether the change in sched-
ule is temporary--due to operational
factors--or permanent.
The suicide of a Buddhist school
teacher on Tuesday--the first day, of a
week-long celebration leading up to
Buddha's birthday--may have been poli-
tically motivated. We have had reports
that Tri Quang and company intended to
seize on the "peace" issue to regain
their political momentum. These mili-
tants, however, even with an immolation
to work with, probably cannot now drum
up any serious disturbances.
The Chinese are keeping up their
pressure on the British. In Peking,
for instance, the Chinese are putting
on the same kind of mass demonstrations
in front of the British Embassy that
they gave the Russians last winter. In
Hong Kong itself, the leftists are or-
ganizing "struggle groups" to prepare
for more demonstrations. There is talk
of trying to mobilize the 400,000 unem-
ployed teenagers in the colony for this
purpose.
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4, Arab States -
Israel
5. Yemen
6. Nigeria
Embassy Cairo reports it is now
?quite clear that the troop movements
through Cairo on Monday were purely de-
fensive. .In essence, Nasir was putting
on a show to demonstrate his solidarity
With Syria in the event of anew Israeli
attack. .
.No Israelis were hurt in the latest
terrorist explosion on the night of
15-16 May near the Israeli-Jordanian
border.r
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7. Cambodia
Sihanouk seems to be broadening
his attack against the Cambodian left.
The other day at a cabinet session (the
Prince frequently has these broadcast
live over the radio), he lashed out at
"red" propaganda activity and made
pointed references to "Red Guard" be-
havior and the distribution of Mao's
works in Cambodia. Sihanouk also re-
peated his accusations that Vietnamese
Communists were behind recent disorders
in western Cambodia and that the left-
ists are being used by certain unnamed
"foreigners."
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