THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 DECEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968671
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 8, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
8 DECEMBER 1966
1. North Vietnam
This is the first report of petro-
leum shortages in Hanoi itself and we
have no ready explanation for it.
Shortages which have appeared in
other parts of North Vietnam have been
attributed by the North Vietnamese them-
selves to transport and distribution dif-
ficulties.
2. Nigeria Prospects for working out a new
constitution appear dimmer than ever.
Western leaders are now showing an
increased sense of estrangement from the
rest of the country. They are demanding
the immediate removal of all northern
troops from their region, and are begin-
ning to side with the East in favor of a
loose confederation. Supreme Commander
Gowon still insists on establishing an
"effective federation," but efforts to
get Eastern leaders even to talk about
this concept are getting nowhere faster
than usual.
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3. Soviet Union
4. Soviet Union
5. Communist China
6, Communist World
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Evidence mounts that some fields of
Chinese science and technology are being
hurt by the "cultural revolution." For
one thing, we have noted that many Chi-
nese scientific and technical journals
have been shut down since the "revolu-
tion" got under way.
The latest example of this comes
from the field of medicine. An official
announcement reads: "To satisfy the
ardent desire of the broad masses to
study the works of Chairman Mao, serial
publications of the Chinese Medical Asso-
ciation will be suspended and all efforts
concentrated on printing Chairman Mao's
works."
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afoot for a conference of European Com-
munist parties in Warsaw early next year.
Officially the agenda will be limited to
Vietnamese and European security issues,
but attitudes toward a world Communist
meeting are certain to be aired.
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7. Macao
8. Syria
8 Dec 66
The colony has been calm since
last week's riots. The Communists
responsible have their blood up, how-
ever. Probably encouraged by the
Portuguese authorities' virtual capit-
ulation to their original demands,
they are now upping the ante.
Seizure of the Western-owned Iraq
Petroleum Company's pipeline will have
these principal repercussions:
--Damascus will lose its revenue
from the pipeline, since the
company has refused to meet
Syrian demands that would nearly
double the fees.
--The Syrian refinery will soon be
without crude oil, since the
company intends to stop pumping
oil from Iraq immediately and
has diverted all Syrian-bound
tankers.
--Lebanon stands to lose $4 mil-
lion a year in fees from its
branch of the pipeline, even
though the company will try to
supply the Lebanese refinery by
other means.
--Iraq will lose about 40 percent
of its government revenue.
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