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• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992260
• 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 22, 1962

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The following
19 and 20, has not
1. Soviet space
launch
2. Burma-Thailand
material, carried in the issues for March 170
been affected by later developments:
The launch on 16 March used a
smaller booster than the man-in-space
vehicles and all signs point to an
instrumented payload. The satellite's
orbit is ideal for coverage of the US
and it will pass over the US during
afternoon daylight hours. It is pos-
sible that a photo reconnaissance
function is involved. This was the
first vehicle to be launched success-
fully from the Kapustin Yar site,
where there were two failures late
last year. This satellite vehicle
launching is not the anticipated
space launch and recovery operation
for which preparations have been under
way at Tyura Tam, where the stand
dnwn mAimms to be still in effect.
The possibility of a major up-
rising in northeastern Burma, where
the Shan minority sees the Ne Win
coup d'etat as a blow to its hopes
for autonomy, has both Rangoon and
Bangkok worried. The Thais fear
that trouble there would spill acrps,'s
their borders and might invite int?r-
vention by both the Chinese national-
ist irregul rs and the Chinese Com-
munists.
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3. Soviet ambassidOr regis- As Foreign Minister Subandrio
ters pain over Indonesian tells it, the Soviet ambassador to
policy Djakarta was anything but diplomatic
when they talked about the latest
developments on New Guinea late
last week, charging that the Indonesians
were "in danger of falling into the
trap of America." Subandrio says
that his rejoinder was that the Indo-
nesians can take care of themselves
and that the Soviets ran the risk
of pushing too hard. His conclusion:
the ambassador's real fear is that
the Soviets would be caught in a
position of putting up most of the
money while the US walks off with
the laurels.
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Chinese Communists for the first half of 1962, have now agreed
to supply another 1 million tons during the second half./
B. Lingering bitterness from last December's unsuccessful revolt in
Lebanon, which closely follows Moslem-Christian dividing lines,
has the Lebanese army command feuding. The government's pre-
carious stability is dependent on the army's effectiveness.
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the Bloc a foothold in Brazil's depressed northeast.
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withdrew all its sterling deposits from Bloc banks
Coinciding with severe Bloc
economic pressure on Albania. These actions were probably
designed to reduce China's vulnerability to possible Soviet
sanctions against it.
F. Haiti and the Dominican Republic are beginning to close one
another's consulates and seem to be inching towards a complete
break. 2
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