THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 16 MARCH 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968207
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 16, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
16 MARCH 1966
TO SECRET-
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DAILY BRIEF
16 MARCH 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
The Buddhists may be getting ready
to press the government for substantial
concessions, although one Buddhist source
claims they do not wish Ky's overthrow.
Today there were peaceful rallies,
each attended by some 10,000 Buddhists,
in both Hue and Saigon. The Saigon dem-
onstration was the first since Thi's
ouster, and we have several reports that
the Buddhists are planning further demon-
strations there later this week.
Meanwhile, Ky, in an apparently
calculated risk, let Thi return to Da
Nang today, presumably hoping he would
calm down his supporters. So far this
gambit has been successful, since Thi
addressed .a mass meeting this evening
and urged officials and the public to
accept the situation.
If, indeed, Thi continues to behave--
he is scheduled to remain in the area for
about two days and leave the country
shortly after--this could undercut the
Buddhists' charge of quarreling among
the military.
Moscow's two space dogs are back
on the earth after their spacecraft was
deorbited earlier than anticipated. ?A
late TASS report explains that the dogs
were suffering abnormal heart reaction.
The Soviets should glean much from the
flight about prolonged weightlessness
and the effect of the Van Allen radia-
tion belt on living creatures.
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3. Communist China
4. India
A series of domestic disorders over
the past few weeks has kept the new
Gandhi government grasping at emergency
palliatives.
Riots in and around Calcutta seem
to be dying down for the moment. These
were fomented by Communists and leftists
as a test of strength. Communal clashes
between Hindus and Sikhs have broken out
in the Punjab, and the army has had tough
going against tribal revolutionaries in
the northeast.
These troubles have deflected the
government's attack on less dramatic, but
far more important, economic problems.
,Since these problems promise to persist
during the spring and summer, civil dis-
orders are likely to continue. (Map)
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5. Indonesia
6. Guinea
7. Ghana
8. Yugoslavia
Sukarno is still trying to get back
the authority he passed to General Su-
harto last weekend. Sukarno put out a
delphic order today implying that his
weekend action was being misinterpreted
and that he, and only he, holds all power.
The generals as usual are giving
lip service to Sukarno but are going
pretty much their own way. Ambassador
Green feels that the tide is running
strongly against Sukarno. These are,how-
ever, Indonesian tides and run slowly,
so that changes when they come will be
relatively gradual.
Despite all the brave talk about
restoring Nkrumah, Guinea's Sekou Toure
seems primarily concerned right now about
his own position at home.
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Ambassador Williams reports that
food shortages in Ghana will reach emer-
gency proportions by the end of the month
and that the new Ghanaian authorities are
looking to the US for immediate delivery
of essential staples.
President Tito's dream of spearhead-
ing another conference of the nonaligned
next week has collapsed. Sukarno's do-
mestic difficulties, Nkrumah's overthrow,
and a general coolness to the idea in
India and elsewhere seem to make a meet-
ing just now impossible.
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9. France
10. West Germany
An official of the French space
agency says there is a better than even
chance that De Gaulle will sign a satel-
lite cooperation agreement during his
June visit to Moscow. Both sides would
regard such an agreement as primarily
political in nature. There area num-
ber of obstacles to carrying it out.
One of these is the steadfast Soviet re-
fusal to provide needed information to
the French on the Soviet booster system
that will launch the French satellite.
Acting Foreign Minister Carstens
suggests that the current confrontation
with De Gaulle may offer an opportunity
to push ahead with plans for a NATO nu-
clear force. Some of the smaller nations
in the alliance, fearing that the disso-
ciation of France from NATO will enhance
the West Germans, may well question this
thesis. The British still hope that
Bonn's nuclear needs can be best met
by the McNamara special committee pro-
posal.
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