THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 MARCH 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968231
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 30, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
30 MARCH 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
30 MARCH 1966
LATE ITEM
Ecuador Clemente Yerovi's inauguration as
president has failed to end disorders.
Although Quito is calm today, left-
ists have maintained the momentum of
last night's demonstrations and disor-
ders by taking control in some other lo-
calities. A specific instance of this
was the seizure of the govbisnorship of
Lora Province by one Potari Maldonado
Paz, an extreme leftist leader with ties
to Cuba.
Security forces stood by both in
this case and during the extremist take-
over of the neighboring province of Azuay.
At Guayaquil, Communist-led stu-
dents briefly occupied the provincial
building but were dislodged by the ma-
rines.
Until such time as the military
straightens itself out and demonstrates
some willingness to restore order, ex-
tremists can be expected to probe every
weakness of the regime.
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DAILY BRIEF
30 MARCH 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
Antigovernment activity flared again
in the restive northern provinces, and
"struggle groups" there have injected a
more virulent strain of anti-Americanism
into the agitation.
In Da Nang, for example, agitators
seized upon and distorted a minor traf-
fic accident involving US marines to
broadcast fairly inflammatory anti-Ameri-
can material.
further demonstrations are planned to-
morrow in connection with ceremonies
marking a Vietnamese holiday.
Saigon remained calm again today.
Tri Quang has returned to the capital,
however, and the Buddhists are said to
be trying to organize a major antigov-
ernment demonstration tomorrow.(
Government security forces have been
alerted and are taking extensive precau-
tions to prevent the situation from get-
ting entirely out of hand. American
personnel have been told to keep away
from the area involved.
Meanwhile, the tone of recent ut-
terances by Catholic spokesmen suggests
? that they entertain doubts that Ky will
survive the current wave of Buddhist agi-
tation.
The Soviets, judging from
of their instrumentation ships, will at-
tempt another lunar probe tomorrow. As
in the 13 previous attempts--only one of
which was successful?the aim will prob-
ably be to soft-land an instrumentation
package.
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3. Communist China
4. Africa
Peking is attempting to spike the
rumors growing out of Mao's record ab-
sence from public view. Last week, for-
eign newsmen were given an indignant de-
nial that he is ill, and yesterday a
Hong Kong Communist newspaper front-
paged a blurry picture of Mao, Chou En-
lai, and a girl militia member in some
indeterminate city square.
These seemingly lame expedients
contrast with the method usually used
in dealing with previous rumors that
Mao was seriously ill--producing a seem-
ingly healthy Mao at a public function--
and add to the impression that something
is wrong with the old man.
The heads of government of 11 east
and central African states are meeting
today in Nairobi. They will probably
hold themselves to innocuous topics such
as noninterference in each others' af-
fairs and regional economic cooperation,
since they appear to realize there is
little they can do about Rhodesia. Tan-
zania, in fact, may be looking for some
face-saving way to restore diplomatic
relations with Britain.
In West Africa, Toure appears to
be backing off from his grandiose scheme
to return Nkrumah to power and may even
be coming to regard Nkrumah's presence
in Conakry as a millstone on his neck.
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5. Communist World
6. Pakistan
Prospects for the winter crops,
now some months from harvesting, are fair
in the USSR and Eastern Europe but poor
in Communist China and North Vietnam.
Winter wheat is down some 15 to 20
percent in the USSR, while East Europe's
winter grain prospects are below last
year's everywhere except in Czechoslo-
vakia.
In Communist China, where winter
grains usually account for some 20 per-
cent of the annual grain harvest, the
wheat crop in particular will probably
be no better than the very poor early
harvest last year. North Vietnam's
spring rice crop, usually about a third
?of the total, is likely to be poor, and
prospects for tubers, corn, and other
rice substitutes are not much better.
The public reception of Liu Shao-
chi and his party has been wildly en-
thusiastic. Their tumultuous welcome
in Lahore on Monday was described as
the largest in the city's history.
The US Embassy feels that the dis-
play of Chinese military hardware in
last week's National Day parade gave
the visit a big boost, by helping to
picture Peking as the "true friend" who
can be counted on for material aid against
the Indian enemy.
Ayub and his government, however,
have treated their visitors correctly
but cautiously, avoiding identification
with any criticism of the US role in
Vietnam.
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