THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 JULY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968436
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 25, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
25 JULY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
25 JULY 1966
1. North Vietnam
2, South Vietnam
3. France
'A muting of the drums. continues
evident in Hanoi's current propaganda
comment on the US prisoners. Ho, ac-
cording to an East German press service,
said today that North Vietnam intends
to. treat the captured pilots humanely--
"the chief criminals are not the pilots,"
said Ho, "but those who sent them . . . ."
Press sources also cite other North Viet-
namese denying any plans to stake out
US prisoners at likely bombing targets.
Meanwhile, Communist China may be
meeting some of North Vietnam's petro-
leum needs following the strikes on
storage facilities.
Tam Chau, moderate head of Saigon's
Buddhist Institute, has temporarily
given up his job, according to Vietnam-
ese press reports. Tam Chau, who ex-
cused himself for "reasons of health,"
will be replaced for some two months by
the venerable Tien Hoa, a monk generally
considered nonpolitical.
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4. Sudan
5. Congo
The ouster today--through a no-con-
fidence vote in the Assembly--of Prime
Minister Mahjoub may end the prolonged
bickering within the dominant Umma Party
that has practically paralyzed the gov-
ernment.
The new prime minister will prob-
ably be vigorous 30-year-old Sadiq al-
Mahdi, whom a substantial number of
Umma parliamentarians have wanted in
for some time. The Umma's coalition
partner is also backing Sadiq.
A powerful Moslem spiritual leader
and strong supporter of Mahjoub has
called large numbers of tribal followers
into the Khartoum area, but the security
forces have been alerted and should be
able to maintain order.
Sadiq will probably get the govern-
ment functioning again, but is unlikely
to make much of a dent in the basic
problems of dissidence in the south and
economic stagnation.
Premier Mulamba has not succeeded
in pacifying the mutinous Katangese
troops in Kasangani (Stanleyville).
The city is generally calm, however,
with the mutineers and the rest of the
garrison apparently in a sort of stand-
off.
The mutiny does not seem to be
spreading,and since most Congolese have
their price, Mulamba may yet be able to
buy off the malcontents.
All Americans have been evacuated
from the city.
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6_ Soviet Union
7. Indonesia
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Soviet statistics for the first
half of this year show no improvement
over the unsatisfactory economic per-
formance of recent years.
The consumer seems to have made
out little better than last year. There
was only a slight increase in the growth
rate for machinery production, and an
actual decline in the rate of growth of
the principal civilian users of it. This
suggests a further increase in the share
of durables being devoted to military
and space programs.
A virtual stagnation of investments
in new plants and equipment and the
lack of growth in the energy industries
point to difficulties in the economy. '
Only petroleum production maintained
last year's rate of growth; that of elec-
tric power consumption was the lowest
for any six-month period in the last
decade.
Some progress does appear in the
program to remedy the traditional ne-
glect of agriculture.
The cabinet announced today is a
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harto made one major concession--inclu-
sion of an opportunistic crony of Sukarno
During the negotiations, Suharto
is said to have demanded that certain
portfolios--in the fields of economics,
finance, home affairs, and information--
not go to politicians. He seems to have
made this stick, all these posts going
to either military men or technicians.
Adam Malik, aside from Suharto prob-
ably the ablest man in the cabinet, re-
mains foreign minister as well as sort
of a watchdog over internal political
affairs.
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