CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 20, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
BULLETIN
CURRENT INTELLIGENCE
RELATING TO NATIONAL SECURITY
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE BULLETIN
CONTENTS
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munist China: Food situation is tightening
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3. Swe
den: Special national elections may be held
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Communist China: Early signs of a tightening in
the food situation have been followed by repeated ex-
pressions of concern by the leadership over the autumn
crop, which accounts for a major part of the year's pro-
duction.
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ages and rising oo prices than during the last several
years. For the first time since the disaster years of
1960-61, food shortages have been reported in Peking,
Shanghai, Foochow, Swatow, and Canton. In Canton,
the adult rice ration
has been cut by about one it rom the level of the past
two or three years and is now 25 pounds a month.
Since 7 September the leadership in Peking has re-
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peatedly ordered the Red Guards to refrain from inter-
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fering with agricultural work and to limit their activity
in the countryside to helping with the harvest. On 19 Sep-
tember this order was repeated in stronger terms, and
for the first time army troops were told to join in bringing
in the harvest. These orders have political overtones, but
they also probably reflect an awareness that food margins
are thin and an anxiety to avoid losses in food production.
Communist China's annual grain production has been
estimated at 175-180 million tons for the past four years, 0
while the population growth has been projected at 14 mil- 0
lion per year. It is too early to predict the size of the
autumn grain harvest, but the year's total is unlikely to
be as large as the estimated 175 million tons produced
in 1965.
China will import about 5.7 million tons of grain in
1966, only slightly less than last year, and thus far has 0
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Sweden: The defeat suffered by the Social Demo-
crats in Sunday's local elections has raised the possi-
bility that special national elections will be called.
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Prime Minister Erlander has announced that the
party's executive and parliamentary groups are to meet
next week to decide whether to call such elections.
Parliamentary elections normally would not be held
until 19 68.
In the nationwide polling, the Social Democrats'
share of. the vote declined from 51 percent to 42.8 per-
cent of the total, as compared to the 1962 elections.
The Swedish Communist Party, which has been display-
ing more independence from Moscow, picked up 2.4
percent of the vote, raising its total to 6.6 percent.
The 300,000 absentee ballots still to. be counted are not
expected to affect the outcome materially.
The Socialists' setback could hasten the retirement
of the 65-year-old Erlander, who has been under in-
creased harassment in recent months from his party's
noisy left. wing. He also has found it difficult to govern
effectively in the face of the minority position his party
occupies in the lower chamber of parliament.
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