THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 6 APRIL 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968244
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 6, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
6 APRIL 1966
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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.
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DAILY BRIEF
6 APRIL 1966
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2. Soviet Union
3, India
4, Zambia
3. France
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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.
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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.
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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.
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10. North Vietnam
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