THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 APRIL 1966

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0005968244
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April 6, 1966
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24: CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 APRIL 1966 50X1 70-P-SEG-R-E-T_- 23 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 ? Declassified in Part- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 50X1 1, South Vietnam, Ky now says that the government will have to make some political concessions before it attempts a military solution in Da Nang. Accordingly, he sent a let- ter today to the Buddhist leader Tam Chau, agreeing to hold a constitutional convention within six months if Tam Chau in turn will put out an order to stop the antigovernment agitation. 50X1 50X1 DAILY BRIEF 6 APRIL 1966 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 ? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 2. Soviet Union 3, India 4, Zambia 3. France 50X1 50X1 Today's 24-hour strike in the Cal- cutta area has touched off a new wave of violence. The militant extremists in back of the strike are using food short- ages as the pretext, but they are really out for a test of strength with the gov- ernment. A wave of wildcat strikes is dis- rupting the copper industry. Native Zambian miners are unhappy at being paid less than white expatriates work- ing in the same mines. This is a dilemma for Kaunda, but the hard economic facts in Zambia oblige him to try to preserve the status quo for a while longer. He is trying persuasion and minor concessions in the hope of avoiding drastic action to end the strikes. The last of the three nuclear reac- tors at Chinon, France's major commercial nuclear power venture, has begun operat- ing. When all three reach full capacity next year, they could provide France with about four percent of its electric power needs. 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 50X1 50X1 ' Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 6. Latin America 7. Haiti The split between "political" and "revolutionary" Communists in Latin America is coming to the fore again at the party congress in Moscow. Recent speeches there by the Ar- gentine, Chilean, and Uruguayan Communist leaders all stressed the desirability of forming political alliances with other "democratic" parties. By implication, all three rejected the Cuban delegate's earlier strident call for armed revolu- tion. The delegates from Ecuador and Peru, where Chinese Communist machina- tions have been most damaging to the old-line parties, were vehement in their speeches today against the "sub- versives manipulated from afar" who try to break up their parties. Duvalier has launched another of his drives against real or imagined plotters. As usual, the paranoic Duvalier is blaming the US. 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6,1 8, Panama 9. Soviet Union Foreign Minister Eleta says his government will be ready next month to present its counterproposals to the US canal and base rights treaty drafts that were handed to Panama in January. The Panamanians have significant changes in mind. Eleta also said that he and Presi- dent Robles are thinking seriously of inviting all former Panamanian presi- dents to discuss the counterdrafts prior to the next meeting with the US negotia- tors. Eleta's primary motive would be to give Arnulfo Arias an opportunity to be- come involved and thus undermine his claim that the opposition has been ex- cluded. Arias, however, is unlikely to do anything to weaken his insistence that no treaty concluded by the "illegal" Robles government would be acceptable. ,The Soviet MIG-l7 that crashed to- day in a West Berlin river is being sal- vaged by the British. The Soviets made several attempts during the afternoon to ?get to the crash site and the Brit- ish are protesting these intrusions. No other Soviet reaction has yet been reported. The Allies have agreed on a formal protest to the Soviets over the "irresponsible flying" which caused the, accident. 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6,3x1 10. North Vietnam 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6 TOP SECRET TOP SECRET Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004400200001-6