THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 MARCH 1966

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Publication Date: March 22, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
22 MARCH 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
22 MARCH 1966
1. South Vietnam
Buddhist-led agitation in the north
may soon put Ky where he will have to
make fundamental--and dangerous--deci-
sions.
Today students seized the radio
station in Hue and apparently have ready
access to the Da Nang station. Antigov-
ernment broadcasts from Hue were ominous
in both tone and content, mentioning Ky
by name and charging that the government
was turning a deaf ear to the peoples'
"legitimate aspirations." The broadcasts
gave every indication that the agitation
will continue.
The province chief and the new I
Corps commander, General Chuan, appear
to feel that the current agitation can
safely be allowed to burn itself out,
and have so far taken no steps to dis-
lodge the students from the radio station.
If the agitation continues, Ky
may feel he can no longer acquiesce in
this soft policy. If, however, he orders
Chuan to take repressive action, he runs
the risk of increasing Buddhist determi-
nation and precipitating an all-out con-
frontation.
He also runs the risk that his or-
ders may be ignored. Chuan, among other
commanders, is known to have some sym-
pathy for the Buddhist position. Some
officers might also be growing queasy
about their own future should the Ky
government fall. Thus, they may not
wish to act decisively at this time.
In Saigon, Ky has in effect apolo-
gized for his weekend blast against the
Buddhists. Ky's original statement,
however, may yet form a rallying point
for the Buddhists, who up until now have
not been completely united against the
government.
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2. North Vietnam
3. Communist China
4. Pakistan
Friendly guerrillas keeping a watch
on the Communist infiltration corridor
in Laos have photographed a powerful,
new cargo truck well suited to service
in this terrain. The truck is identi-
fied as a Polish-made Star 66. It has
a six-wheel drive and can carry 5,500-
8,800 pounds of cargo. Last year the
Poles contracted to deliver 150 of these
trucks in the first quarter of 1966.
The North China plain was struck by
another severe earthquake today. The
epicenter was about 200 miles south of
Peking (see map). There were quakes in
this area on 8 and 20 March, and all
three registered as grade six or seven
on the Richter scale of nine.
The effect of three earthquakes in
such a heavily populated area--800 to
1,000 people per square mile--has almost
certainly been devastating.
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. India
6. Indonesia
New Delhi may be thinking of pro-
posing that the US call a halt to fur-
ther military aid, "lethal" or not lethal,
to both India and Pakistan.
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WEST AFRICA
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7. Cyprus
8. West Africa
9. Finland
Relations between Cypriot President
Makarios and the Greek Government are
deteriorating as a result of Athens' in-
ept attempts to name Makarios' old enemy,
General Grivas, supreme commander of all
Greek and Greek Cypriot forces on the
island. 'MakariosAs, of course, resist-
ing which has produced new strains in the
Stephanopoulos government, as opportunistic
politicians rush to take advantage of its
discomfiture.
Ambassador Belcher in Nicosia warns
of dangers inherent in Grivas' getting
control of all Greek forces since he is
one of the most belligerent elements in-
volved in the Cyprus mess. Grivas, for
example, considers Makarios soft on the
Turkish Cypriots.
Despite ranting and raving from
Conakry, there is nothing in official re-
ports to support press accounts of immi-
nent war between Guinea and its neighbors.
As far as we can tell, Guinea is not mo-
bilizing its forces and is not moving
them to the frontier with the Ivory Coast.
In any case Guinea's armed forces are
small and incapable of a land invasion
across the Ivory Coast to Ghana. (Map)
The Social Democrats, who scored a
smashing victory in the weekend elections,
are traditionally Western oriented and
anti-Soviet. In fact many voters turned
to them as a rallying point for hostility
against the Soviet Union. Stories hint-
ing at Communist participation in a new
government seem wide of the mark.
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