THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 JANUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968116
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 25, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
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25 JANUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
25 JANUARY 1963
1. Vietnam
2. India-Pakistan
3. India
North Vietnamese propaganda is giv-
ing the impression that the regime ex-
pects air attacks to be resumed, in the
near future. An editorial in the North
Vietnamese military newspaper yesterday
urged the army and the people to "get
everything ready for a protracted war
and pay special attention to air defense."
The paper said that the US is threaten-
ing to bomb industrial and residential
areas and is flying reconnaissance mis-
sions to prepare for "escalated" attacks.
The first steps toward implementing
the Tashkent agreements are being taken.
The Indian and Pakistani army commanders
have met in India and agreed on prelimi-
nary withdrawals of their troops along
the line of confrontation. They are
scheduled to meet again in Pakistan to
plan further phased withdrawals. At the
same time, prisoners of war are being
exchanged.
These positive signs are being
somewhat clouded, however, by the pub-
lic statements on Kashmir which Presi-
dent Ayub evidently feels obliged to
make. He stressed to the press last
weekend that Tashkent has not altered
Pakistan's stand on Kashmir nor deterred
Kashmiris from continuing to "struggle
for their rights."
The Communists in Kerala State are
launching their expected agitation on the
food issue. Together with other politi-
cal groups in the state, they are plan-
ning mass demonstrations and a general
strike to protest a recent reduction in
the rice ration. This Friday has evi-
dently been set for the beginning of the
strike.
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4. Malaysia
5. Rhodesia
6. Soviet Union
The violence that erupted suddenly
yesterday in Kuching, the Sarawak state
capital, is another sign of the fragil-
ity of the British-created Malaysian fed-
eration. Wide-ranging street fighting
between local Malays and soldiers from
mainland Malaya developed from a minor
incident. Crowds chanted antifederation
slogans and "Malayans go home."(
Prime
Minister Wilson to make some of the
, statements he did today in Parliament.
Wilson seemed to go out of his way
to stress that majority rule would not
be permitted in Rhodesia until some time
after the restoration of legal govern-
ment.
What Soviet geologists believe to
be the richest gold deposit ever discov-
ered in the country is now under develop-
ment in Soviet Central Asia. They esti-
mate it will produce some $20 million
worth of gold annually, about ten per-
cent of present total Soviet production.
It is likely to contribute significantly
to an ultimate improvement in Moscow's
strained gold reserve position.
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7. France
8_ Italy
The "Ben Barka" affair continues
to trouble De Gaulle both at home and
in his relations with Morocco. Tonight,
Mitterrand and other French opposition
elements are staging a mass rally in
Paris in an attempt to embarrass De
Gaulle further.
Hard bargaining among the coalition
parties may delay the formation of a new
government for as long as a month. The
outcome seems likely to be a new center-
left grouping under Aldo Moro, who was
formally asked today to take on the task
again.
Ex-Foreign Minister Fanfani, who
was clearly involved in the political
ambush that brought down the Moro gov-
ernment last week, may well emerge with
greater influence.
9. Dominican Republic The military officers are still
meeting among themselves as they decide
whether to continue their defiance of
Garcia Godoy's order, now three weeks
old, transferring the three chiefs
abroad.
Garcia Godpy is confident, however,
that the same patient tactics he used
in securing Caamano's voluntary depar-
ture will work in the case of the mili-
tary chiefs.
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