THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 9 DECEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968674
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 9, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
9 December 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
9 DECEMBER 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
?Hy went on television today to
blast away at the Viet Cong for Tran
Van Van's murder. The accused assas-
sin also came before the cameras. Many
Saigon circles are cynical about the
published evidence and there is a wide-
spread conviction that the government
was behind the killing.
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Retail prices in Saigon shot up
during the week ending on Monday. With
the exception of the peak reached dur-
ing the September elections, they-are
now at their highest level of the year.
This latest increase was due partly
to a drop in deliveries of rice and
pork from the provinces. However, non-
food items also rose. All told, there
was a seven-percent hike in the retail
price index.
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The Soviet-French statement winding
up Kosygin's visit is an unimpressive thing.
No new agreements are recorded. The state-
ment does ?go on at some length reiterating
joint views of the Vietnam war as a
"threat to peace."
Kosygin clearly failed to lessen De
Gaulle's opposition to a nonproliferation
treaty. On the issue of Germany, there
was apparently nothing the two leaders
could agree to say--so they said nothing.
The initial reaction of one more than
normally excitable French official was,
however, that the visit was more signifi-
cant than the joint statement suggests.
This man, a foreign ministry official, said
that Kosygin's visit was the prelude to
close Franco-Soviet collaboration in "all
domains," including communications, scien-
tific exchanges, trade, and consular relations.
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3. Soviet Union
4. France
5. Bolivia
9 Dec 66
De Gaulle is as strong as ever
against British membership in the Com-
mon Market. He does not have the French
public with him on this, however, and
would find it more difficult this time
to bar Britain with an out-and-out veto.
Paris is expected, therefore, to
try an end run. It is likely to dwell
on the suspicion among the other mem-
bers that London's still unspecified
conditions will require unacceptable
changes in the community.
-President Barrientos tried to face
down a hostile crowd of 4,000 miters
this afternoon--and failed. He had
:traveled to the mine unarmed and alone
in a courageous attempt to head off a
bloody confrontation between the strik-
ing miners and the national guard.
The miners still show no sign of
heeding a government ultimatum to get
out of the mines. Troops are standing
close by, ready to enforce the govern-
ment order. .The strike has so far been
a localized affair, but an armed clash
at this mine could well lead to trouble
at others.
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6. Rhodesia
7. Jordan
9 Dec 66
Ian Smith is working hard to adver-
tise his willingness to keep the door
open for a settlement. ?He may even go
ahead and implement many of the points
of the constitutional agreement he con-
cluded with Wilson last weekend. He
will surely not give in, however, to
Wilson's demand that the British hold
effective power in Rhodesia during the
interim before legal independence.
-Smith's acceptance of British po-
sitions on the basic constitutional
issues could, if it comes to pass, ul-
timately bring Wilson back to the con-
ference table. We may not yet have
?seen the last of London's "final" offers
to Rhodesia.
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