THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 NOVEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968645
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 23, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
23 NOVEMBER 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Communist China
3. Guinea
A foreign ministry official has
"explained" to embassy officers Foreign
Minister Do's public threat of hot pur-
suit into Cambodia.
The official said Do's statement
,was not really a declaration of a new
policy and.would not result in-South
'Vietnamese troops actually pursuing
the next border violators back into
Cambodia. Rather, he said, it was a
warning to Sihanouk to desist from his
recent public :abuse of Saigon officials.
The official admitted, however,
that Do's speech was given on orders
:from -"the military" who, he said, favor
such countermeasures against Cambodia.'
The battle., for power within the
leadership took a sudden new, turn to-
day. Red Guard attacks on Chief of
State Liu Shao-chi and the general sec-
retary of the party were sharply inten-
sified. Both are now publicly accused
of very serious political crimes. This
may well be the start of a move to bring
them down in disgrace.
Russian teachers at Guinea's poly-
technic institute are upset at the pros-
pect of a US aid pullout from Guinea.
One of the deans at the institute says
the Russians fear the result would be
to place them in the intolerable posi-
tion ofAirect confrontation with the
Chinese aid personnel in Guinea. Ulti-
mately, they fear, the Guineans may
turn on them as they have the Americans.
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4- Jordan
The situation is grave. Violent
anti-Husayn demonstrations erupted to-
day in every important center in west
Jordan, including Jerusalem. - Some
openly called for the King's overthrow.
? Jordanian officials expect the demon-
strations to become even more violent.
So far the police and troops -ap-
-pear to be responding to orders :but
this may not last much longer. The use
of troops to 'repress demonstrations is
further intensifying military demands
for retaliation against Israel. Such
a retaliatory strike would, in fact, be
the one thing that could-quickly--if
momentarily--restore the King's and the
army's prestige.
-King Husayn insists his choice has
now 'narrowed to either a strike :Is-
rael, even if it be suicidal, or -facing
a popular revolution at home. . He told
a VS Embassy officer :last night .that
."P have never before been blamed so
:openly by -my-own people and army for
failing 'to provide the necessary, defense'
against Israel. To oppose ipro-Nasir
'demonstrations is one thing. To seem to
oppose. my own people and army on Israel
is quite another"
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5. Uruguay
6. NATO
The prospects for continued democ-
racy in Uruguay hang on the outcome of
Sunday's elections. If none of the four
proposals to replace the nation's un-
wieldy nine-man executive with a single
president is approved, the result will
be bitter public disillusionment. The
pressures for illegal action to force a
change will then grow.
The voters must choose from a be-
-wildering array of candidates for both
the-presidency--in case constitutional
reform is approved--and for a new.Na-
/ tional Council of Government--in the
event reform fails.
? At this point it looks like a toss-
up between the two traditional political
parties. It is generally expected, how-
ever, that the Communists' electoral
front will make significant gains and
thus increase its stature as an impor-
tant minority group.
The Germans are moving ahead on
their own in talks with the French re-
garding the legal status of French troops
in Germany. Bonn and Paris now hope to
have the issue settled before the mid-
December NATO ministerial meeting.
Bonn had earlier agreed to keep
these talks parallel to General Lemnitzer's
negotiations with Paris on the mission of
the French forces in Germany and their re-
lationship with the NATO command.)
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