THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 MARCH 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968824
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 8, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
8 March 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
8 MARCH 1967
1. Egypt
2. Communist China
3. South Vietnam
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The drive to restore order is
gathering momentum. Mass "rebel"
organizations are being dismantled and
the Red Guards seem to be in the pro-
cess of reorganization. Some of the
party officials who were violently at-
tacked in recent months are now being
rehabilitated.
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documents continue to show growing
Viet Cong concern over the government's
Revolutionary Development program.
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4. Cuba
5. India
The principal conclusions of the
National Intelligence Estimate just
approved are:
--Castro's revolution has not pros-
pered. Prospects are for only
minor economic gains this year
and next.
--Increasingly, the regime is key-
ing its hopes to the more distant
future when it expects its long-
term education and economic pro-
grams to pay off.
--Castro will almost certainly per-
sist in encouraging and training
foreign insurgents. Poor pros-
pects in Latin America, however,
are already causing him to in-
crease his attention to Africa,
where opportunities are greater
and risks fewer.
--Cuban-Soviet frictions will con-
tinue, but the Soviets have little
practical choice but to continue
backing Castro.
--For the next two years at least,
we believe Castro will remain
clearly pre-eminent in the Cuban
leadership and his hold on power
will remain strong.
Political observers are fascinated
at the prospect of a by-election in Bom-
bay that is already being billed as a
"battle of fallen giants." The man who
barely defeated the acid-mouthed Krishna
Menon in last month's election died sud-
denly on Monday.
Menon, one of the world's bitterest
baiters of the US, will presumably try
again for a seat in the legislature.
There is a good chance that his opponent
this time will be S. K. Patil, the power-
ful Bombay party boss who was defeated
in another constituency last month.
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