THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 28 JULY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968442
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 28, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
28 JULY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
28 JULY 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
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During a talk with Ambassador Lodge
today, Ky said that he would be.too
young to be a candidate for president
under a new constitution. Instead, the
premier said that he will become the
"campaign manager" for General Thieu,
and then return to duty in the air force.
As for Thieu, he is already giving
the impression the he considers himself
the front runner. He also indicated to-
day that he would like to see the mili-
tary with a prominent--if not pre-emi-
nent--role in South Vietnamese affairs
well after presidential elections.
3. France Paris is maintaining its hard line
in NATO negotiations.
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Paris probably hopes
that a French-German agreement would cause
other NATO members to relax demands for
close ties between the French forces and
NATO.
The next French-German negotiating
session is set for next week, and other
NATO members, fearing Bonn will go too
far in bilateral talks, are urging the
Germans to mark time until the Fourteen
as a group can make some progress with
the French.
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4. Soviet Union
5. Congo
The government is embarking on an-
other of its periodic campaigns against
public drunkeness and hooliganism.
Yesterday Pravda announced sweeping
new measures to this end. In addition
to a new Ministry for Preservation of
Public Order, these involve police au-
thority to make preventive arrests and
to impose fines on the spot for drunken-
ness or hooliganism.
Punishments for crimes against pub-
lic order have been sharply increased.
Petty hooliganism can now land the cul-
prit in jail for 10-15 days, where he
must pay "board and room." Pressure is
also put on employers, who must report
within 10 days what "social influence"
has been exerted to reorient errant em-
ployees and must ensure that factory
equipment is not used to manufacture
knives.
All this is an implicit admission
that juvenile crime has; gotten to the
point of national concern. Pravda left
out the usual line that hooliganism and
drunkenness are survivals of capitalist
society.
The mutiny in Kisangani is still
unresolved despite continuing peacemak-
ing efforts by Premier Mulamba. As evi-
denced by an outbreak of gunfire last
night--cause unknown--the situation is
still dangerous. So far, however, the
mutiny is still confined to the immedi-
ate Kisangani area.
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6, Sudan
7. Guatemala
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The government is making another at-
tempt to bring politically disaffected
elements, including guerrillas and exiles,
back into the fold.
A congressional decree effective yes-
terday provides amnesty for persons who
have committed political crimes since 1
November 1960.
The government is turning the other
cheek here, since the Communist guer-
rillas vehemently rejected the "open
hand" Mendez Montenegro extended to all
disaffected elements in his 1 July in-
augural address.
The government seems to be playing
this straighti
We do not look for business
at the collection points to be very
brisk.
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8. Cuba
9. Venezuela
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