THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 16 JUNE 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968368
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 16, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
16 JUNE 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
16 JUNE 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Netherlands
For the fourth straight day, Bud-
dhist monks continued to try to organize
demonstrations in Saigon. Police are
dealing with them firmly. Their tactics
have irritated at least some people by
causing monumental traffic jams.
In Hue, a battalion of airborne
troops joined police in continuing the
task of cleaning up the streets. There
has apparently been little violence.
Tri Quang continues his hunger strike
in the hospital apparently under "in-
formal" detention by the government.
There is now little doubt that Tri
Quang's militant supporters are running
the Buddhist Institute in Saigon, al-
though the relatively moderate Tam Chau
remains its titular chairman. At least
one government minister has told the
US Embassy that he thinks Tri Quang this
time has gone "too far" and has set
forces in motion--including anti-US sen-
timent--he can no longer control.
The riots in Amsterdam, which grew
out of a construction workers strike,
have been given a momentum of their own
by young toughs and students. They have
become a somewhat purposeless challenge
to the city police and government.
Even the Communists, who at first
aided the strikers, now seem to be try-
ing to disassociate themselves from the
violence. This leaves the small anti-
NATO Pacifist Socialist Party the most
active political backer of the rioters.
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3. Indonesia
4. Pakistan
5, Guatemala
Tensions are growing again in Dja-
karta with the approach of the opening
session of the Peoples' Consultative As-
sembly on Monday. This meeting has long
been heralded as the instrument ?through
which Indonesia's present leaders in-
tend to deprive Sukarno of his lifetime
claim to the presidency. They also hope
to secure assembly endorsement of?their
"new path" in foreign relations.
The main problem now is the frag-
mentation of the once almost monolithic
unity of the anti-Communist, anti-Sukarno
movement. This is permitting pro-Sukarno
forces to reassert themselves. This,
in turn, makes Indonesia's leaders chary
of pushing for the kind of clear-cut new
policy directions they would like to
see.
The upshot of the assembly meeting
may well turn out to be another series
of typically Indonesian half-way measures.
A high-level Pakistani military mis-
sion is now in Peking, probably to dis-
cuss additional Chinese military assist-
ance./
After the visit of a high-level
Pakistani mission to Peking last Octo-
ber, China supplied Pakistan at least
41 medium tanks and 24 MIG-19 fighters.
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New terrorist incidents hit Guate-
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mala City this week.
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6. Uruguay
Leaders of the two traditional po-
litical parties have begun talks in an
effort to come up with a bipartisan pro-
posal for reforming Uruguay's unwieldy
government. Rivalries between the par-
ties and among the factions in each will
make agreement hard to come by.
Most Uruguayans seem to want re-
form, but unless the two big parties can
reach agreement this summer, the chance
of a constitutional solution will be all
but foreclosed.
7. Egypt Nasir has ordered a broad shake-up
in the army's command levels./
8. Communist China
This is probably in part an effort
to prevent anti-Nasir sentiment in the
army from crystallizing. Nasir is pres-
ently embarked on a campaign against
the "remnants of feudalism," a term evi-
dently employed to cover a variety of
real and imagined opponents of his rule.
Ambassador Battle feels this may
foreshadow increased concentration on
the home front.
Chou En-lai arrived in Bucharest
today after a much postponed visit. He
will stop in Albania, and possibly Egypt,
before returning to Peking. For the
Rumanians his visit serves to demonstrate
their independence. The Chinese, on the
other hand, will try to use the visit to
embarrass the Russians and to show that
they have influence in Eastern Europe
outside of Albania.
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