THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 DECEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968696
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 22, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
22 December 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
22 DECEMBER 1966
1. Vietnam
2. Communist China
3. Cuba
The Viet Cong seems to be pulling
off an increasing number of successful
small-scale attacks. Concern over the
psychological impact of these actions
on the population has been reported
from most sections of South Vietnam.
In some areas, Viet Cong harassment has
produced higher prices--for which the
government and the US are receiving the
lion's share of the blame.
Peking's grain imports for the
first half of next year may reach a
record four million tons. This is
about a million tons more than China
imported during the first half of 1966.
Australia and Canada, China's biggest
suppliers, are now being asked for much
more than they had earlier been sched-
uled to send.
The Chinese are scouring the world
for still more. The bumper crops this
year in the Soviet Union will not help.
The Chinese have been too prideful to
seek Soviet grains for some years.
Castro has been having trouble with
openly defiant students at Havana Uni-
versity. For the university elections
early this month the students had in-
sisted on nominating candidates with
what regime leaders called "untested
political reliabilities."
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Castro apparently won this round
and the affair is being muted. However,
he must realize from his own violent
and rebellious student days that the
problem will not simply go away.
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4. alba
5. Egypt
6. Jordan
22 Dec 66
Nasir has stepped up his pressures
against Saudi Arabia. Cairo's propa-
ganda is working hard to create an im-
pression of growing domestic dissatis-
faction in the kingdom. A series of
recent bomb explosions there was ap-
parently the work of Egyptian-trained
Yemeni terrorists sent in for the job.
Nasir is also entertaining ex-King Saud,
whom King Faysal ousted, but it is hard
to see how Egyptian collusion with Saud
can be made ideologically convincing.
Faysal's most obvious recourse is
to heat it up for the Egyptians in Yemen.
So far he has resisted demands for the
resumption of open warfare by the Yemeni
royalists, but he may not hold the line
much longer.
King Husayn today strongly reaf-
firmed his support for Prime Minister
Tal, a principal target of his foreign
and domestic enemies. By asking Tal to
form a new government, Husayn served
notice that he is in no mood to buckle
under on basic issues.
We suspect that there will be an
effort to appease the restive Pales-
tinians of west Jordan by including
some of their representatives in the
new cabinet. It will be exceedingly
difficult, however, to get any respected
Palestinian to serve under Tal.
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8. Soviet Union
22 Dec 66
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