THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 MARCH 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968832
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 13, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
op Secret 13 March 1967
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1. Communist China The recently flagging "Cultural
Revolution" is showing some sign of new
life. A politburo member whom Chou
En-lai had earlier defended has come
under renewed poster attack in Peking.
A recent editorial in the authoritative
Red Flag complained that revolutionaries
aird the military were not being given
a big enough role--and the party too
big a one--in the new three-way govern-
ments being set up in the provinces.
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DAILY BRIEF
13 MARCH 1967
2. Soviet Union
3. Vietnam
The Chinese are also beating on
the Soviets with renewed enthusiasm.
Over the weekend they threw out two
Soviet diplomats and protested the con-
duct of some Soviet frontier guards,
whose worst sin apparently was to con-
fiscate Mao's works from a Chinese train.
Communist forces in South Vietnam
may have a rocket larger than the 140-mm.
type used in the attack on the Da Nang
Air Base last month. For one thing, a
North Vietnamese defector claims to
have been trained in the use of a 175-mm.
rocket weapon. In addition, a new and
very large Russian-made rocket fuse was
recently discovered in South Vietnam.
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4. South Vietnam
5. Latin America
6. Indonesia
The Constituent Assembly has
finished its basic work on the draft
constitution, which now needs only a
few finishing touches. There are still
some things to clear up with the mili-
tary, but these will probably be ironed
out without the Directorate having to
use its veto. As things now stand, both
government and assembly leaders think
the constitution will be wrapped up by
27 March and promulgated in late April.
Presidents Balaguer of the Domini-
can Republic and Arosemena of Ecuador
now seem good bets to attend the Punta
del Este summit meeting.
Bolivian President Barrientos
has boxed himself in with his national-
istic statements on the access to the
sea issue. Unless Chile obliges him by
showing more willingness to talk,
Barrientos will probably have to stay
home.
President Lleras of Colombia may
also have trouble going; his senate has
threatened to deny him necessary permis-
sion to leave the country unless ?he
first arranges to have a vice president
elected.
We do not expect any real trouble
to follow the congressional decree shelv-
ing Sukarno.
? The whole campaign against him has
been so drawn out and carefully orches-
trated by acting President Suharto that
this final step belongs in the depart-
ment-of anticlimax. The decree itself
stops short of explicitly dismissing
Sukarno--it just says he is "no longer
capableumf doing his job. It also
leaves it to Suharto to decide whether
Sukarno will actually be brought to trial;
a step he is not likely to take.
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7. France
8. Soviet Union
9. Britain -
Soviet Union
De Gaulle's narrow margin in the
new assembly will probably not result
in any major policy changes. A number
of independent conservatives are ex-
pected to support the government on
most issues and, in any event, govern-
ment policy can only be challenged by
a censure motion passed by an assembly
majority. This is a dubious prospect
at best in view of the diversity of the
opposition.
Moscow so far is playing Svetlana
Stalin's defection in very low key.
The Soviet people are being told that
she went to India to bury her husband's
ashes; how long she stays abroad is
her private affair. Tass is taking the
same line for international audiences.
The British ambassador in Moscow
says negotiations will begin there
soon on the friendship treaty. He ex-
pects it to have a preamble based on
the United Nations Charter and its con-
tent limited to cultural, scientific,
and economic cooperation.
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