THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 9 NOVEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968621
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 9, 1966

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The Presidents Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
9 November 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Indonesia
Yesterday's debate in the con-
stituent assembly came to a vote
this morning. A healthy majority of
the delegates (53 of the 66 partici-
pating) voted to get down to the busi-
ness of drafting a constitution, but
at the same time to give the govern-
ment one month to amend two offending
articles in the assembly's charter.
If the problem is not satis-
factorily resolved in a month, the
assembly is to respond by stopping
work.
The assembly's first step will
probably be to name a small dele-
gation to meet with the government
on the issue while the assembly it-
self gets to work on the constitu-
tion. One hopeful sign is that most
delegates seem to recognize the need
to avoid a head-on clash with the
government.
The army is alerted for possible
moves by pro-Sukarno forces tomorrow--
one of Indonesia's major holidays.
The president still manages to have
considerable emotional appeal, es-
pecially in East and Central Java,
but any major success by his followers
is quite unlikely.
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3. Communist China
4. Zambia
5. Guinea
tension continues to build in
Peking as the Red Guards step up their
attacks on high officials. '
President Kaunda will shortly
seek increased US, Canadian, and West
European help to reduce Zambia's con-
tinuing economic dependence on
Rhodesia. His alternative is the po-
litically unpalatable--if not im-
possible--one of reaching an accommoda-
tion with the Smith regime. The
dimensions of Kaunda's dilemma are ex-
amined at Annex.
There have been no anti-US inci-
dents following Sekou Toura's blast
yesterday afternoon. The Conakry em-
bassy has started rounding up the
Peace Corps workers in the interior,
but the complicated overland evacua-
tion arrangements have not yet been
approved by Toure's government.
There could easily be trouble
during the evacuation period.
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ANNEX
Zambia: A New Call for Help Is Coming
Zambia has pulled through its first year of
isolation from Rhodesia with difficulty and only
with considerable US, British, and Canadian assist-
ance.. Troubles have now accumulated to a point
where they demand immediate solution. The cost
will be very much higher than the stop-gap measures
of the past year. The .only bright spot on the
horizon is the current high world price for Zambia's
copper.
A prodigious US-British-Canadian oil lift ef-
fort began last December after the British embargo
on oil to Rhodesia forced the Rhodesian government
to stop the customary shipments to Zambia. The
idea was that this would buy time for the upgrading
of surface routes into Zambia bypassing Rhodesia.
Progress on these routes has been disappointing.
Land routes through the Congo, Angola, Tanzania,
and Malawi are still inadequate and unreliable. More-
over, most of them will become nearly impassible with
the onset of the six-month rainy season.
Despite rather spartan Zambian gasoline ration-
ing, there is constant danger of a gradual exhaustion
of oil supplies unless large-7scale air shipments are
resumed. Because of technical and other problems
in the Congo, a resumption of the US oil lift through
that country might well double last spring's cost of
$1 per gallon of oil delivered./
Coal for refining Zambia's copper is another
looming problem. Zambia is second only to the US
as a Free World producer of refined copper. The
industry earns more than 90 percent of Zambia's for-
eign exchange and, to keep it going, requires well
over a million tons of Rhodesian coal per year.
Rhodesia has not stopped exporting coal to Zambia,
but has placed obstacles on its transport to the
copperbelt, where stocks are now dangerously low.
Moreover, Rhodesia could cut off the supply en-
tirely with no warning.
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ANNEX (Cont'd)
Zambia has begun to develop its own coal re-
sources. Their extent is still uncertain, however.
Even if they prove to be large it is very unlikely
that they can fill Zambia's needs before 1970, at
the earliest.
Perhaps the most potentially explosive dilem-
ma now faced by Kaunda is the growing tension among
the 30,000 white workers who hold almost all the
professional and skilled labor positions in the
country. They are absolutely essential to the econ-
omy, particularly to the copper and railway industries.
These white expatriates are mostly from Rhodesia
and South Africa. Most of them have no use whatso-
ever for Zambian independence and are naturally
sympathetic to the racial policies of their home-
lands. They have stayed on in Zambia only because
of high salaries.
But even financial incentives have become
less appealing as Kaunda felt himself obliged to
bear down on the more extreme of the racists among
them. Kaunda has already deported a few white
troublemakers and tensions in the expatriate com-
munity are high.
The sudden departure of many of the whites, a
real possibility if present tensions mushroom into
serious violence, would strike an almost irreparable
blow at the economy. Even a slow exodus would create
difficult problems.
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